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The article considers the functions, structure and content of a foreign language textbook in terms of axiological measurement of modern education. The article gives a new understanding of a textbook as a tool to design and realize the content components of language education. A textbook is supposed to provide socio-linguo-cognitive aspects of communication and cognition in a foreign language. The authors pay special attention to the determination of axiologically significant parameters of the praxe-methodological aspect of the textbook content. The textbook's content through linguistic culture has to form a student's personality, which realizes itself as a bearer of national values, accepts the equality of different cultures and perceives cultural diversity as a source of not only social, but also personal progress.

The article provides an analysis of many years of theoretical and practical research in the field of foreign language teachers’ professional training. Special attention is drawn to the importance of not only the foreign language teacher methodological training but also to his value orientations that are necessary in the professional sphere. The issue of the axiological component of education is covered up from the point of view of primary foreign language education goals which should be reflected not only in the foreign language acquisition process by preschool and primary school age children but also in the qualitative training of teachers who are able to form a child’s moral values, personal qualities and ability to communicate in a foreign language as a phenomenon of culture and as a knowledge tool of his surroundings.

The article outlines axiological basis of professional training of English teachers, capable to develop communicative, cognitive and moral development of junior schoolchildren when they master a new language and facts from a different culture. The article refers both to the history of methodological research, in which the issues of the formation of professionally significant skills of a foreign language teacher were studied, and to the modern problems of the formation of the teacher’s personality and his readiness for pedagogical activity. The article examines linguistic values and substantiates a new goal of professional training of a future foreign language teacher for the primary stage of secondary school, taking into account the priority of his spiritual ability and recognition of professionalism as its fundamental characteristic. The authors associate the formation of professionalism with the disclosure of the personal potential of the future teacher, which is an integrative phenomenon, the components of which are the basis for determining the new content of teacher training as a person capable of realizing the educational and developmental potential of primary foreign language education.

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