Abstract
This article is devoted to the problems of assessing the "soft" skills of future foreign language teachers. Understanding and recognizing the universality of the sought-after phenomenon for all future teachers and the complexity of its monitoring, the authors are convinced of the need not only to develop "soft" skills, but also to assess their level of formation in order to see a holistic picture of the situation. In this regard, in addition to defining the essence of "soft" skills and methodological research positions, the authors of the article suggest ways to solve the tasks based on the analysis of the current state by applying the methods of desk study of strategic documents in the field of education and educational documentation of universities directly related to the problem under study, as well as methods of sociological survey of teaching staff of a number of Kazakhstan universities. Taking into account the above, the authors came to the conclusion that students' developmental problems and their assessment, combined with "hard" and "digital" skills, have not yet found their systemic solution in practice. In the near future, we intend to develop and pilot a reliable and user-friendly tool for assessing the "soft" skills of students of the pedagogical bachelor's degree, which may be a Map based on the analogy of the integrated GPA assessment initiated by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.