DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL MATURITY OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS BY MEANS OF INFORMATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES

The article deals with the necessity of implementing information technologies in the educational process in terms of foreign language teacher training, taking into account the social and cultural situation, which is reflected in the educational system. Professional maturity consists of stable professional motivation, professional identity, as well as acquired knowledge and skills of professional activity in the chosen field. It is considered to be the highest point of professional development. Special attention in the paper is focused on the issue of information structuring, since information and communication technologies provide a wide range of opportunities for presenting information. The structuring of information accelerates the formation of the image of the subject. The implementation of this viewpoint was carried out by means of multimedia and hypertext tools, which contain all the disjoint methods of structured in-formation representing. The reasoning of the use of multimedia tools is based on the fact that students, while using them, become subjects of the educational process, which is a prerequisite for the development of the professional maturity. The effectiveness of information technologies in the development of professional maturity of future foreign language teachers has been confirmed. The assessment of the degree of professional maturity of future foreign lan-guage teachers has been conducted by means of expert evaluation. For this purpose, the indicators of the phenome-non under study have been determined. These include: focus on professional success, professional identity, profes-sional self-esteem, ability to self-regulation, ability to solve professional development tasks.