SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE AS A CONDITION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF THE FUTURE TEACHERS

Social Intelligence is considered by most researchers as the ability to adequately understand and evaluate their own behavior and the behavior of other people. We define social intelligence of future teachers as a cognitive component of communicative competence. Theoretical analysis and the usage of methodologies for social intelligence investigation of J. Guilford and M. Sullivan, and 16-PF methodic of Kettle has allowed us to establish a link with the social intelligence components of communicative competence of the future teachers. The greatest number of significant correlations of social intelligence test is set with the scales of A+, F+, H+, E+, L-, Q2+, G+, N+ by 16-PF Kettle. All subtests and especially composite score revealed a negative correlation with the index of introversion (scale - A-, F-, H-). Thus, the high level of social intelligence in the development of future teachers determine their flexibility, tact, empathy, activity in communicative activity. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Academic World Education and Research Center.