Педагогические науки/5. Современные методы преподавания

Nikolaienko O.V.,

Ushata T.O.

Chernihiv National University of Technology

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES, PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES OF CURRENT UNIVERSITY FOREIGN LANGUAGES TEACHING TRENDS

Using modern innovative technologies whilst teaching academic disciplines in universities is able to improve the quality of classical education system by integrating such processes as studying, applying for a job, career planning, continuing education that cannot be united in the frames of traditional education system.

Absolutely, among the factors of developing education in Ukraine there is the most crucial one, namely, introduction of modern innovative technologies in foreign languages teaching and acquisition. However, it should be mentioned the decisive role of a teacher’s personality in educational process as an integral part of ‘subject-subjective’ interaction with students. It is precisely a teacher is expected to be able to manage the process of studying, define its objectives, content, principles, strategies and tactics.

Prominent methodologists distinguish the following objectives in teaching foreign languages: practical, educative, educational, cultivate.

In modern methodology of foreign languages teaching in universities practical objective is defined as decisive. It is derived from the fact that foreign languages teaching aims at language skills formation in order to be able to communicate with foreigners in professional and casual context.

Aims and objectives of foreign languages teaching are closely connected to educational content. Educational content whilst teaching foreign languages must secure teaching aims and objectives achieving, and its structure might be following:

- fields of communication, topics, developing communicative situations;

- linguistic and speech educational materials;

- knowledge, speech habits and skills.

Determining principles of teaching plays a great role in the correct teaching foreign languages process organization. Methodologists emphasize special methodical principles that are used precisely in foreign languages teaching. They are the following:

- communication principle;

- dominant factor of training activities and tasks principle;

- various kinds of speech activity interaction principle;

- native language effect principle;

- approximation principle.

It must be said that communication principle is defined as decisive according to the determined role of practical objective in foreign languages teaching. Following communication principle implies that the process of foreign languages teaching must be built as the model of real communication.

The dominant factor of training activities and tasks principle is implemented to form speech habits and skills by some speech and mental operations.

The various kinds of speech activity interaction principle provides developing speech habits and skills in complex. For instance, lexical or grammatical skills are formed and improved through speaking, writing, listening and reading.

The native language effect principle is also important because native language linguistic and speech skills must be taken into consideration. It allows predicting the difficulties in teaching pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar aspects of a foreign language and also in teaching graphics, spelling and semantization.

The approximation principle provides an opportunity to organize and regulate foreign languages teaching from new postures. While estimating a foreign language speech activity a teacher ignores minor mistakes that do not affect communicative aspect. The teaching of foreign languages strategies and tactics helps to develop an individual teaching style. The strategy of foreign languages teaching must be aimed at raising motivation to study and achieve a success in languages acquisition.

Among the teaching of foreign languages strategies we can define the following:

- creating a positive psychological atmosphere in the classroom and extracurricular activity (encouragements for successfully completed tasks; psychological adjustment to success and misunderstandings and difficulties avoidance; avoidance to correct mistakes while communicating; providing conditions to secure equal ‘subject-subjective’ interaction between a teacher and a student);

- setting such speech and mental tasks that are characterized by novelty, involving the complex of various kinds habits and skills of learners including language skills and their own life experience for the purpose to update main psychological states associated primarily with the emergence of personal experiences on the importance of work and its results to meet future professional challenges;

- providing learners with freedom of actions for the purpose to resolve speech and mental problems by inducing learners’ creativity and invention;

- providing learners with an opportunity to see and feel the results of their work by developing permanent feedback between teachers and students.

Thus, successful foreign languages acquisition in the most extent depends on choosing correct approaches to teaching.

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XI Международной научно-практической конференции

«Научные горизонты – 2017»

Срок подачи: 28.09.2017

Сроки проведения: 30.09 -07.10.2017

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