Moral attitude of future foreign language teachers: cognitive-meaningful level

Pedagogical literature revealed the importance of moral values in an individual value system. Such moral values as respect, honesty, sincerity, truthfullness, responsibility etc. determine the nature of moral attitudes, direct one‘s behaviour and provide the basis for human relationships. Therefore, the acknowledgment of the importance and understanding of the meaningfulness of moral values are considered to be the criteria revealing the depth and maturity of the cognitive-meaningful component of one‘s moral attitudes. he reseach into moral attitudes of future foreign language teachers was conducted at Vilnius Pedagogical Universities. The article provides the results of the analysis of the cognitive–meaningful component of foreign language students‘ moral attitudes. Although the respondents showed a relatively high acknowledgment of the importance of moral values, the understanding of meaningfulness of these moral values is not very deep. The conclusion is made that such a level of cognitive-meaningful level of moral attitudes of future foreign language teachers is not mature enough and that it might hinder the fulfilment of teachers‘ responsibilities in their future professional areas