«Перспективные научные исследования – 2016»

Филологические науки. 1.Методика  преподавания языка и литературы.

Oleksandr Rak

Department of the Foreign Languages, Higher State Educational Establishment

“Bukovinian State Medical University”

Audio-visual technologies in the process of teaching foreign languages

The effectiveness of professionally-oriented foreign language teaching (FLT) depends on the techers’ and students’ skills and abilities to use different methods, adjusted with innovative educational technologies among which audio-visual means play an important role.

Modern labor market requires a basic knowledge of the language training and the formation of a well-cultured person, especially under the circumstances of the Ukraine's integration into the global informational space, the transition of higher education institutions to credit-module system, and generally the interaction of our country with the European community. The importance of these priorities or preferences is often overlooked by students.

Due to our experience of FLT we can presume that systematic usage of audio-visual equipment at the classes creates the conditions for realizing the principle of communicative competence, while learning goes inseparably with the culture of the nations who speak this language. One can not effectively teach to speak a foreign language and also understand it without observing the process of broadcasting its authentic sound. The audio-visual teaching methods help to take a foreign language as a living creative organism and give direct access to achive this goal.

Traditional learning of a foreign language deals with the speech material based on the texts, which realize the message function, seldom – the communicative function and hardly ever – the function of influence. In this case the fact of language interconnection with thinking and culture is ignored that practically form one entity, which consists of these three components, none of which can not separetly function and therefore can not exist without each other.

Among the reasons, which act as a brake on the usage of audio-visual equipment, there are some objective ones – lack of technical resources, complexity of image document content for comprehension, and fast rate of speech.

At each stage the usage of audio-visual equipment find the reflection in their didactic functions:

– illustrative – in the situations, which deals with the socio-cultural information and it’s nessesary to avoid excessive verbal explanations;

– motivating – encourages the interest and desire to analyze the material to be seen, creates the atmosphere of verbal communication via adopted principles of communicative teaching.

The role of the didactic functions of the audio-visual equipment shouldn’t be denied and at the same time the potential of learning and educational functions can not be ignored, through which the culture of the perception of the audio-visual messages is formed.

Any image document has different methods of pedagogical usage: verbal, extralinguistic, paralinguistic and technical. It has an impact on the formation of the professional competence of the students.

One of the types of using audio-visual arts in the career-oriented language training involving the formation of comprehensive studies is based on different genres which works on professional subjects (documentaries, commercials, television programs, etc.). In each video fragment the report is used as a dynamic and complete type of an image document, which lasts 5 – 10 minutes.

The other type of using audio-visual equipment provides pedagogical use of unadapted authentic television programs.

The use of the informational messages with the help of media and foreign language with the following reproducing of the content orally or in the written rendering is the next step for teaching listening comprehension.

In the monologues the preference is given to the commenting and argumenting the own point of view, in the dialogues – to producing different kinds of speech, seen on the screen, participation in the enlarged conversations on the topic of the informational message.

Implementation of the results into the language training practice of the future professionals provides high level of foreign language proficiency due to the conditions of the intensification of the educational process by means of audio-visual learning technologies. From this it follows, that the problem of developing a strategy to use them as one of the important components of a highly qualified professional training of medical students in accordance with the requirements of the informational society of the XXI-th century, and the implementation of the Law of Ukraine «Higher Education Act» according to the needs of the society and the state for qualified specialists and Integration of the higher education system in Ukraine into world space, which requires the formation of audio and video guide.