Formation of future educational psychologists' emotional intelligence

The paper investigates emotional intelligence and the ways of its formation and the development. We hypothesized that active methods of teaching English for psychologists in the form of socio-psychological training (SPT) contribute to the development of emotional intelligence (EI). 102 students of the Faculty of Pedagogy, Psychology and Communicative Studies were randomly selected as the participants of the study, during which they had to learn to recognize and understand their own feelings and emotions; manage their emotions and emotional states; identify and recognize other people's emotions, understand the emotions of the communication partner; regulate the emotional states of their communication partners; make a choice of selfpresentation tactics, etc. To achieve these objectives during the classes of English for psychologists we opted for the SPT towards the actualization of students’ creative potential, as well as the development of empathy and other EI components. The analysis of the subjects’ EI in the initial and the closing stages of the study has confirmed that the use of the TSP during the English language classes for psychologists has a positive impact on the formation and further development of intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects of students’ emotional intelligence.