The teacher of English
Krupenkina F.A.
Kostanay State
University named after A.Baytursynov, Kazakhstan
The
role of a foreign language in the training of specialists in the high-growth
world
The knowledge of
several languages always expanded communication and integration abilities of
the countries and the people. Multilingualism in modern Europe is the standard
norm. The linguistic wealth attracts strong social and psychological effect of
"open thinking". The
citizens, who are fluent in several languages, will be competitive persons both
within the country, and abroad. The learning of foreign languages is recognized
socially significant as pledge of ensuring practical and professional activity
of the person in modern multi lingual and the multicultural world.
Today nobody will
deny an important role of a foreign language in the life of modern society for
which the expansion of the interstate relations, trade and economic relations
with foreign countries, science and equipment development are characteristic as
means of oral and written communication between representatives of the
different people and cultures.
In the conditions
of the fast-changing world and increasing of flows of the information the major
problem exciting all English teachers is increasing of efficiency of a lesson
as the main form of training and education of students. For this purpose the
teacher has to learn to stimulate the activity of pupils, to inspire them.
V.A. Sukhomlinsky
wrote that "the lesson is a mirror of the general and pedagogical culture
of the teacher, a criterion of his intellectual wealth, an indicator of his
outlook, erudition". I consider that the teacher has to give not only the
knowledge to students, but also teach them to study, to get the knowledge
necessary to them. At our university we train in a foreign language and
professional focused foreign language of students of many specialties.
The children with
different preparation on a foreign language, with different level of knowledge
of this discipline come to study to our university. The foreign language skills
are an obligatory component of vocational training of the modern expert of any
profile. As the experience shows, now teachers are compelled to consider insufficient
level of knowledge and abilities of many graduates of high schools of the town
and rural schools. Kazakhstan, having
headed for mastering his citizens three languages, proceeds from today's
realities: the trinity of languages will be the testimony of competitiveness of
the country, the President of our country N. A. Nazarbayev speaks about it in
messages from 2006 to 2014.
It is well-known
that the contingent of students in a group is non-uniform. There are students
with various mental capacities, various natural data, different interests
therefore one of actual problems of teaching of foreign languages is training
of students in a foreign language with different level of language preparation.
One of ways of the
solution of this problem is using of the differentiated approach in the
training in a foreign language of the students having different level of
language preparation. The abilities of students to learning of the foreign
language aren't identical: one language comes easily, another – with great
difficulty. The differentiated
approach in training in a foreign language of students of not language
specialties is realized in several directions. In this case the following
factors are considered: the level of proficiency in language, the aspiration to
the independent work and specific features of students. For students with the different level of the language
preparation, being trained in one group, we try to select the tasks considering
their level of knowledge, skills. These are tasks directed on the elimination
of gaps, the tasks considering preliminary knowledge, the general and special
abilities of students. The differentiated approach is considered not only in
the selection of different in complexity and difficulty tasks, but also in
various help of the teacher to strong and weak ones, various time for
performance of tasks, various control methods.
At the beginning of
training of students our teachers try to define the level of knowledge of a
subject that training will be more effective. Having analyzed the level of
knowledge, and also interests, desires and possibilities of students, it is
clear that the training has to be oriented on the specific personality. Such
distinction of inquiries of trainees causes need of the differentiated approach,
as to purpose definition, and contents of training in a foreign language. In this regard teachers of a
foreign language are faced by a difficult problem of providing psychologically
comfortable conditions of training for everyone, they could realize completely
the potential and constantly improve results of learning of foreign language.
It is obvious that to organize training in such groups possibly on the basis of
personal the focused approach. So, as the center of such approach is identity
of the student, and the methodical basis of this approach is made by an
individualization and differentiation.
There are no bad
pupils in general. Everyone has strengths. If the student knows the specific
features, he will be able to realize the strengths with the maximum benefit for
itself. Creating favorable conditions for manifestation of abilities of weak
students, realization of its positive expectations promotes. G. Pestalozzi, as
well as Russo, as well as M. Montessori drew that the teacher should respect
the experience of the pupil previous this grade level, features of his
development. It is necessary to begin that is familiar to the pupil, gradually
opening before him more and more difficult phenomena, relying on independent
activity of the pupil.