CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Salihova Sulushash Kurmashovna

Kazakh state women’s teacher training university

English language teacher

The success in education of creative qualities of the personality depends on how the teacher measures features of creative activity and psychological conditions of its optimization, such as: possibility to achieve the success, adequate and strong motivation, encouragement of independent searches and non-standard opinions of pupils. Enriching educational process with retrieval and informative tasks stimulates creative activity of pupils.

Informative-retrieval tasks demand pupils’ abilities to define ways of the decision, search the most rational combination of several ways, establish communications between elements of the knowledge relating to different subjects or different sections of the same subject; consider the phenomena and regularities under a new point of view, discovering facts, the phenomena, etc [1].

Creativity is an integral part of modern foreign languages. Languages are not always creative, but they have enormous potential to be so. They are used deliberately to create works of art, and for spontaneous communication. Learning a language may be a creative exercise because languages are so vast and complex, and each user needs to use and combine elements of knowledge in new ways constantly. It is like having different ingredients to cook and being able to combine them differently each time in order to create as succulent a dish as one can manage to. Thus, creativity lies in the ability to construct meaningful language from the building-blocks available and to express ideas using the resources available; but also, recognizing that the resources can be adapted and that the language learner can often be in control of resources, rather than subject to their limits and restrictions. On another level, creativity also means the scope to play with language and ideas for their own sake. [2]

To have better results we can use innovative technologies and media. They provide interaction with speakers of other languages, and improve foreign language teaching in the classroom. This is a way to increase access to information and entertainment in a foreign language. We need specific research on how technology can best be used to increase students' proficiency in other languages. The importance of the Internet and specialized databases for information retrieval is of special importance. [3]

There are other notable methods which include the sole use of the foreign language in the classroom; a modular approach to teaching in which students are grouped according to proficiency level and project-oriented learning that emphasizes the use of authentic materials through technology and integrates learning about English-speaking countries with language and content learning. Learning content-area subjects through the medium of a foreign language has become an essential part of learning professional English. In some cases, a foreign language is used as the medium of instruction in non-language subjects. There is also a great number of online and self-study courses which help the learners of foreign languages very much. Hundreds of languages are available for self-study, from scores of publishers, for a range of costs, using a variety of methods.

Creative activity is understood as a certain readiness of a pupil to find the solution of problems and creative transformation of reality. For acquisition the experience of creative activity a pupil needs to join in such situations which demand direct implementation of problem solving. In this regard development of creative activity is meant as formation of preconditions to implementation of independent informative activity, development of creative activity.

There are some creative technologies for successful development of pupils’ creative activity.

Creative techniques— methods and the techniques promoting creative process of original ideas, findings of new approaches to solve known problems and tasks. Creative techniques help to formulate a task more accurately, to accelerate finding process of ideas, and also to increase their quantity, to expand points of view of a problem and to destroy mental blockade. Techniques aren't algorithms, which should be followed to find the solution of a task, but they discipline the train of thought and increase probability of receiving good ideas.

Advantages of all creative techniques are obvious. Reasonable and expedient usage of these methods considerably increases developing effect of training, creates the atmosphere of intense search, causes in pupils and the teacher positive emotions and experiences.

The usage of creative techniques, undoubtedly, is positive in teaching a foreign language. Children do not only study language, but at the same time there is also a formation of the liberated, self-assured personality, capable to leave any current situation. Creative techniques of teaching can widely be applied in teaching school subjects.

Reference

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2. M. A. Clarke, Creativity In Modern Foreign Languages Teaching And Learning /International and European Studies Division, School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, Park Building, King Henry I Street, Portsmouth. PO1 2DZ. Tel. (023) 92846134

3. Ivanchenko, T. U. About Some Problems in Foreign Language Teaching. Materials of VI International Scientific — Practical Conference “Scientific Thought of Information Century -2010”, Volume 8, Pedagogical Science, March 2010, Prague, p. 62–64.

4. W. J. J. Gordon. Synectics: The Development of Creative Capacity. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1961.