PRINCIPLES OF CREATING A TEXTBOOK ON THE METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Introduction. The main task of universities today is to find productive and effective approaches to the training of teachers, including teachers of a foreign language. The academic discipline "Methods of foreign language teaching" is of great importance here. The textbook on this discipline gives future teachers, its users, an idea about existing methods of teaching a language, about the role and place of the knowledge gained on how to correctly form students' speech skills and abilities. The creation of a textbook on language teaching methods faces certain challenges and difficulties. Materials and methods. As part of the study, the authors used different methods of scientific cognition of educational reality (general scientific and special). The methods were adequate to the set goals and objectives of the creation of an educational book. Research findings. In the course of research and design work, a substantial amount of survey and modeling work was carried out, which led to the obtaining of useful-planned results. They are described in the text of this article. Discussion and conclusion. Based on the results of the study, the authors made reports at scientific conferences of various levels (international, regional); published scientific articles on the determined problem; proposals were formulated for teachers on the use of the new author's textbook on the methodology.