Филологические науки / 1. Методика преподавания языка и литературы

 

 

PD, Associate Professor, Usacheva G. M.

Senior teacher Ilchenko L. G.

Donetsk State University of Management, Ukraine

Application of mass forms of work at the lessons of foreign language

 

Application of mass forms of work, supposing the simultaneous participating in orally-speech activity of all students at the lesson of foreign language, has direct attitude toward the successful decision of practical tasks of teaching in this subject in higher educational establishment. Not by chance this question pays intent attention of methodists and teachers. Use of mass forms of work in the process of teaching of the foreign languages not always achieves success. It is related to that, above all things, that a teacher undertakes speech initiative in a group. Taking the role of listening and answering to the students, and sometimes and quite observers. At such form of work possibilities of formation of speech skills and abilities are convolute in a considerable form. Being the element of activity, they can be formed only in case when a student constantly joins in this activity, what can not happen, if more than half of educational time is talked by a teacher and only remaining part of time can be parted between the students of a group. One of requirements of teaching process is the necessity of making and application of active forms of training of students in the process of teaching of the foreign language, participating in which all students anymore would use status of teaching subject.

Speaking about introduction of mass forms of work in the process of teaching of foreign language, it is necessary also to pay attention to the fact, that they behave to internal backlogs of method of teaching of foreign languages in an institute of higher, and they are one of the real backlogs promising the improvement of process of teaching due to the improvement of the most methodical technology. Work is the most acceptable and effective form of the mass training in pair. It is indisputable in relation to the initial stage of teaching of the foreign language in an institute of higher. Work in pair provides simultaneity of participation of all students of group in intercourse and due to it more effective use of educational time, curriculum limited by scopes. It promotes also to forming in the students of intuitiveness and ability to speak to each other, enables to realize principle of differentiation, allows leaning against control and mutual help in the process of teaching.

Work in pair does not suppose the invention of some special unknown exercises. Difficulties which a teacher runs into touch the organizational aspect of work above all things, in particular adaptations of the known types of exercises to the terms of the mass training, although it, does not eliminate the necessity of selection for such aims most effective from their number.

In consideration of function of exercises for work in pair, we distinguish two groups of such exercises.

The first group is made exercise for forming of lexical and grammatical skills. Such exercises traditionally name preparatory or trainings. It is behaving for them, for example, imitating, raising, transformations and question exercises. These exercises in a different degree require adaptation to the terms of work in pair. However for successful realization of this work one general line is providing of the frequent use of that form, which presently is the article of mastering, must be peculiar for them.

To the second group of exercises belongs the exercise for development of vocal abilities. They are the small dialogic or monologues utterances, carried out in the form of talk of two students and, thus, all pair in a group simultaneously.

The exercises for work in the pair offered operating studying and methodical complexes, practice of teaching produces the row of specific requirements the account of which are quite needed and which are definitely reflected on the structure of these exercises:

а) Every exercise for work in pair must be absolute accessible for all students in a group. The necessity of observance of this requirement is explained by that student incapable will lick by a problem, in the process of the mass training unnoticed for a teacher is turned off from work or is continued to work, but assumes plenty of out-of-control errors. In order to execute this requirement, it is necessary to give up the orientation on the so-called middle student and, in consideration of circumstance that only a teacher deeply enough knows possibilities of every student from his group, to enable to the teacher to take most direct part in the construction of exercises. It means that the structure of the materials offered by a teacher must be flexible, foreseeing possibility of facilitation or condition of complication of every exercise. Having such methodical materials, a teacher adjusts them to the concrete terms of teaching.

b) Exercises for work in pair must answer the commons requirements of methodical conception which teaching is built on. In this concrete case they must be at least more communicative, suppose situation basis and practically eliminate simple manipulation by linguistic material. Thus, an output is very desirable on a communicative level.

c) Exercises for work of students in pair must have a binary structure that includes two tasks – for the students of row A and for the students of row B. And these both tasks must be balanced so that the proper utterances of two students made logical unity. In this sense reaction of students A always must correspond to the stimulus from the side of students B and vice versa.

d) Exercises for work in pair must be related to the studying and methodical complexes which teacher uses. It means, at first, that in the linguistic relation such exercises must fully consist of material which students seized in some degree, and secondly, every exercise must answer the concrete purpose of the employment marked in a plan, that has clear connection with educational process.

Higher basic requirements were transferred to exercises in pair, by which unproductiveness of similar exercises concerns in the educational process foreseen in the curriculum of institute of higher, and their fitness, to the practical use. Work is differently conducted with the exercises intended for forming of skills.  Providing the situation in exercises for forming skills is carried out by changing of the article of utterance, that successive creation of set of similar situations predetermining the same type’s utterances of students structurally. By the set of situations the incremental dynamics of similar exercises is prompted.

In exercises for forming of skills every utterance is stimulated and is prompted by the separate situation included in the set of the same type’s situations. Their subject plan is set by the series of the same type subject evidentness, and sometimes by words or combinations of words in foreign language. Thus, there is no problem of management by the dynamics of utterance of students at implementation of these exercises. This problem is characteristic for exercises offerings development of monologue and dialogic speech, in which just one situation stimulates the unfolded utterance of student or all dialogue between students.

It is possible also to manage such speech activity for students: one pair of students which have the high level of trained is characteristic for demonstrates implementation begin exercises or executes them step by step so that the other pair of students followed the offered standard. This reception is used in case when there are a lot of students in a group with the low level of domain by speech abilities. Experimental application of these exercises confirms organizationally-methodical possibility of their wide use by students with the purpose of study of foreign languages, and it also shows their high educational efficiency that gladly accepted by students in the process of teaching.

 

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