SECOND / FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS\' CHALLENGES AND THE WAYS OF SOLUTIONS

The article presents the main challenges, which second language teachers have to overcome to perfect language teaching process and enrich new methods and approaches. The opinions expressed in the article are based on theoretical study and on my professional experience. Challenges faced by foreign language teachers depend on: • the sociocultural and political context of the language training; • what is students’ composition (age, social and economic status); • students' mood and willingness to study the language, the target language status; • if the language, taught by the teacher is his/her native language or not; • in general, what are educational and, in particular, linguistic education traditions in a particular region. In our article, we will try to show a few, in our opinion, significant challenges, that formally appear in almost all cases of teaching a second language and mark the required skills and knowledge of a second language teachers to deal with the problems. • Diversity of the audience is one of the key challenges especially (but not only) in adult learners. The scientific literature indicates the following: the cultural, socioeconomic, linguistic and academic diversity, which is typical in today’s student population, requires foreign language teacher to work with students, whose needs, educational experiences and native language skills are very different from those of students they have typically taught. (Valdes, 1995; p. 299-328). In addition, of course, the factors, that have traditionally existed about the audience, and which are familiar to practicing teachers still remain. In our view, these factors might be considered as the students' emotional diversity, intellectual differences, motivation, different quality and access to the target language, differences in the technological skills and, of course, in advance knowledge. In my opinion, this is one of the most difficult, but at a certain level predictable problem to overcome. For solving the