Pedagogy/5.
Up-to-date techniques of teaching
Cand. in Pedag.Sci., Associate Prof., Orynkul
Zhumadillayeva
S.Seyfullin Agricultural University, Astana,
Kazakhstan
Innovative Methods of Teaching a Foreign Language
in Technical Higher Schools
Innovative methods of teaching are a goal of
many educators. At present the researches of
pedagogical work show that teaching foreign languages is impossible without
innovative component [1, 15]. In the light of modern requirements to the
purposes of teaching a foreign language the status of both a student and a
teacher changes; the scheme "Teacher – Student" passes into
innovative technologies.
In
technical higher schools foreign language teachers have to train a technician
having a good command of a foreign language in a short space of time. It means
to teach a student to tell, understand and extract different information from
original sources for a limited period of time. And it is possible to realize by
combining traditional and innovative methods of teaching, relying on the
principles of communicative intercourse.
Traditional
teaching a foreign language in technical higher schools was focused on reading,
understanding, translating special texts and studying grammatical characteristics
of scientific style.
Now
the emphasis positively moved to the development of auditory communication
skills and abilities. Oral speech includes listening or reading, understanding
and reproductive rendering the listened or read material both in oral form
(dialogue or monologue) and in writing.
Teaching
oral speech by specialty is planned by taking into account the following
states: specifying the models of
communication; defining the
communicative signs of oral speech and means of their expression; comparison of means of expression and
selection of models for passive and active use; developing the system of exercises; the analysis of texts focused on communication by specialty and
development of effective system of exercises for training the selected
structural units; selection of the
word-forming, lexical and grammatical structures necessary for reading,
understanding, listening and speaking;
using the audio-and multimedia facilities for realizing oral
communication [2, 158].
For
realizing the communicative opportunities of speaking, texts are distinguished
according to: the means of communication (oral and written); the way of a
statement (describing, reporting and reasoning – summaries, reviews); a degree
of relation to the special subject (research – monographs and scientific
articles, and training – texts from textbooks, manuals and dictionaries).
It
is necessary to begin with the elementary descriptions and characteristics,
processing them in a monologic form, and then to use more complicated on
structure and style texts that will help to form students’ activity algorithm
in the mode of communication of Teacher/Audio and multimedia means – Student
and Student – Student. The teaching
material must be professionally relevant with a glance of the students’
prerequisite knowledge of language and special subject, purpose and type of
communication, as well as a grade level.
The
exercises communicative oriented to oral speech should include the
following: the availability of an
initial material or model; model imitation; model rendering in a variety of
ways; own communication. The main thing
is to be able to single out the main subject of a problem, to describe,
formulate and assert correctly [3, 15].
In
developing the skills of oral speech it should be necessary to increase
gradually the extent of a monological reply in a dialogue and then to pass to merely monological forms of the
oral speech – summary, abstract, annotation, description of the scheme,
occurrence or process with further writing.
Thereby,
innovative technologies of teaching foreign languages in a technical higher
school consist in a combination of traditional and intensive methods of the
teaching based on functional and communicative linguistic-didactic model of
language, and development of integral system of teaching communication on shop
talk.
Today,
when computer technologies spread to all spheres of human activity, there is a
necessity of improving a foreign language teaching process as mastering a
foreign language is one of the factors influencing on competitiveness of young
specialists in the world labour-market.
The
variety of information resources of the Internet enables students to carry out
different tasks of searching and investigative work.
In
addition, the Internet gives students a unique opportunity of visual
communication with native speakers on a real-time basis that promotes the
correct perception of the real speech on the basis by the authentic sounds, a
mimicry and gesticulation. One more
advantage of using the Internet in the course of teaching is checking the
students’ learning the material by means of testing on a real-time basis.
The
teacher should motivate a student not only to use up-to-date innovative
technologies in doing some tasks, but also to apply these technologies actively
by improving his professional skill.
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