THE FUTURE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE 5TH COGNITIVE REVOLUTION

Purpose. The article addresses the issue of identifying the possible ways of foreign language teaching transformation, which is crucial in the face of a technological paradigm exponential shift experienced by the contemporary society. The subject of this research is changes in this process within the expecting 5th Cognitive Revolution. The author aims to show the prospects of professional development of a foreign language department instructor in view of the mass implementation of artificial intelligence systems based on Large Language Models. Methodology. The basis of the research is the personalised and symbolic approaches, as well as the principle of interdisciplinarity. Results. The results and novelty of this study are that the author specifies the periodisation of cognitive revolutions applied to education by analysing Russian and foreign researches. It is the technologies of the 5th Cognitive Revolution, distinguished by the synergy of human and machine intelligence, will determine the nature of foreign language teaching transformation in universities. The author assumes that the activity of instructors working for foreign language departments will be the most sensitive to professional turbulence due to the achievements of world research in the field of Large Language Models. The professional development of instructors appears to be related to their ability to interact with artificial systems with emotional intelligence and multimodal behaviour, such as Artificial Intelligent tutors and non-biological department employees within the hybrid education environment of a university. Practical implications. The results of this research can be applied in the development of technologies and methods of teaching foreign languages at universities.