Филологические науки/1.Методика  преподавания языка и литературы

Suleimanova S. A. Nikambayeva.S.S. Mustafina G.K.

Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan

Innovative Methods in Foreign Language Teaching

The modern concept "education" contacts interpretation of such terms as "training", "education", "development". However, before the word "education" began to contact education, it had broader sounding. Dictionary values consider the term "education" as from a verb "to form" a noun that is: "to create", "form" or "develop" something new.

To create new is an innovation.

Thus, education in essence already is an innovation.

The purpose of education is not just making a student literate, but adds rationale thinking, knowledgeably and self sufficiency. That’s why teaching nowadays must include innovative communication methods that impart knowledge. Some innovative methods of teaching could be multimedia, the combination of various digital media types such as text, images, audio and video, into an integrated multi-sensory interactive application or presentation to convey information to an audience.

The use of innovative methods in educational institutions has the potential not only to improve education, but also to empower people, strengthen governance and galvanize the effort to achieve the human development goal for the country.

Information and Communication Technology has made many innovations in the field of teaching and also made a drastic change from the old paradigm of teaching and learning. In the new example of learning, the role of student is more important than teachers. The concepts of paperless and pen less classroom are emerging as an alternative to the old teaching learning method. Nowadays there is democratization of knowledge and the role of the teacher is changing to that of facilitator. We need to have interactive teaching and this changing role of education is inevitable with the introduction of multimedia technology and the spawning of a technologically-savvy generation of youth.

Innovative teaching is a method of teaching that emphasizes on the skills that are important during the 21st century such as critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration. The teacher is expected to motivate students by creating authentic learning experiences.

Currently, many schools are moving towards problem-based learning as a solution to producing graduates who are creative and can think critically, analytically, and solve problems. Since knowledge is no longer an end but a means to creating better problem solvers and encourage lifelong learning. Problem-based learning is becoming increasingly popular in educational institutions as a tool to address the inadequacies of traditional teaching. Since these traditional approaches do not encourage students to question what they have learnt or to associate with previously acquired knowledge, problem-based learning is seen as an innovative measure to encourage students to learn how to learn via real-life problems.

Multimedia tools are essential parts of innovative learning. Multimedia is the combination of various digital media types such as text, images, audio and video, into an integrated multi-sensory interactive application or presentation to convey information to an audience. It will help the teacher to represent in a more meaningful way, using different media elements. By incorporating digital media elements into the project, the students are able to learn better since they use multiple sensory modalities, which would make them more motivated to pay more attention to the information presented and retain the information better. Creating multimedia projects is both challenging and exciting.

Laptops, notebooks and smart boards are used in some innovative classrooms. Students take notes or answer questions asked by the teacher on the computers. A teacher can also direct students to all look at the same website as reference at once. Students can work independently to research subjects while in the class while the teacher helps students one-on-one. Some smart boards let students draw with a tool on the board. This allows students to show the teacher a visual response to a question.

Skype, a video chat service, social sites as Face book can be used in classrooms for students to chat with pen pals in other parts of the country or in other countries. This real-time interaction allows students to ask questions and get responses and to also have a visual of the other students.

The Internet technologies (e.g., e-mail, online forums, and chat rooms) provide more opportunities for learners to have authentic conversations with native speakers in the target culture, which enables language learning in a true cultural context. Students are now able to independently practice the foreign language in a real and meaningful environment.

There are many other multimedia technologies used in the classrooms. They make foreign language teaching and learning easier and more efficient.

Informative - communication pedagogical activity promotes complex formation of all aspects of communicative competence: linguistic, lingual-regional geographic, social lingual, social and educational; and also communicative and cognitive abilities of pupils (search and selection of relevant information, its analysis, generalization and classification). Modeling of the real authentic environment by means of attraction the Internet – resources serves not only to more successful development of language, but also allows comprehending the deep law of unity and variety of culture.

Thus, innovative technologies which we considered today significantly enrich and diversify teaching of foreign languages.

Modern foreign language teaching form, multimedia foreign language teaching waits for the test of time. Without any problem in itself, its success depends on whether language teachers are initiative or not, whether they can fully exert the advantages of multimedia teaching to find and solve problems. As long as they deepen their research, sum up experiences and improve teaching methods constantly, multimedia will bring about more positive changes to foreign language teaching and therefore greater achievements will be made in our foreign language teaching.

References

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