Abstract:

In the modern educational system, both the competencies of a foreign language teacher, who has to enter the complex world of the XXI century – the VUCA-world (the world of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity), and, accordingly, teacher training strategies are continuously changing. The world's best practices and rapidly developing technologies’ mastering is one of the priorities of the teacher training process for the VUCA-world. The analysis of scientific and methodological literature shows that the use of modern technologies in teaching is becoming a dominant characteristic of modern education. In their article, the authors describe the theoretical and methodological foundations of using the PechaKucha pedagogical technology (by Astrid Klein and Mark Dietam) in teaching foreign languages.

The research goal of the study is to identify and experimentally test the ways of implementing the PechaKucha technology in the foreign language teacher training program.

The authors used quantitative methods to confirm the possibility of using the PechaKucha technology in the training of foreign language teachers. Within the short elective course "Interactive Technologies in Teaching Foreign Languages", 4th-year students (future English teachers) were offered to use and approbate the above technology when modeling foreign language lesson plans.

The study shows that the PechaKucha pedagogical technology allows solving the following tasks:
- to improve speech competence,
- to develop creative thinking,
- to form presentation skills,
- to educate person-oriented qualities such as openness and sociability,
- to master ICT competencies,
- to deepen knowledge on the subject.

The results of the study can be taken into consideration by University faculty and administrators while compiling foreign language teacher training programs for the VUCA-world.

Keywords:

Foreign language teacher, PechaKucha pedagogical technology, PechaKucha technology implementation, teacher training, VUCA-world.