Current problems of Russian teacher education as a foreign language (in Russia, in the Czech Republic and in the world)
Abstract
The education of Russian teachers as a foreign language depends on the goals of the modern education system and global change around the world, and therefore requires innovative approaches to education and lifelong professional development. First, in some countries Russian can be studied as a first foreign language (eg Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia), in other cases as a second foreign language (eg Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, etc.) and even as a third foreign language (Finland ).
Secondly, today we observe an insufficient number of professionals who teach Russian in the applied aspect: more and more people are learning Russian for practical reasons - business or work in a certain area (tourism, medicine, etc.). Thirdly, the modern teacher of Russian as a foreign language uses in practice the human-centered approach to support motivation of each student (for example, bilingual children).
The content of teacher education must take into account external factors that may affect the teaching process now and in the future (eg the accelerated development of digital competences). The concept of modern education therefore requires not only knowledge of didactics, psychology and language, but also a deeper understanding of external factors: changes in the social sphere, the transition to the digital age and a human-centered approach.