THE STRUCTURE OF A CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF A FUTURE TEACHER OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

In the article there were shown the problems of creativity, the development of a creative person in the context of a decision of questions of the structure of a creative potential of the person. Creativity as a systematic structure of a person was characterized. The mechanisms of creative thinking of a person were grounded. Concepts and theories described in the scientific literature which offered in generalized form the structure of a creative potential of a person were described. The groups of individual qualities of a creative subject which are a base of a creative potential of a person were determined. The components distinguished by V.A.Molyako and N.V.Kuzmina in a model of a creative potential of a person according to a teacher of foreign languages were structured. It was justified including into the structure of a creative potential of a teacher of foreign languages a social component. Its substructures were described. It was clarified the meaning of “social creativity” and “communicative competence” in the structure of a creative potential of a teacher of foreign languages. To the structure of social component of a creative potential we attribute the substructure “social creativity” (it contains the ability to self-actualization, social motivation, communicative competence, communicative (verbal and nonverbal) sensitivity, behavioral sensitivity, social imagination, etc.). In the article it was specified the structure of communicative competence of a teacher of foreign languages. It was indicated that communicative competence consists of linguistic, sociolinguistic, strategic, social and psychological competencies. To the structure of a creative potential of a future teacher of foreign languages we include “personal component”, which contains the following substructures: 1) individual qualities; 2) the structures of skills.