Basic principles of interective language teaching

Abstract

(uk) У статті аналізується поняття взаємодія, а також розглядаються основні принципи інтерактивного навчання іноземної мови зумовлені необхідністю розвитку та вдосконалення комунікативних навичок студентів. Визначено та обґрунтовано основні функції викладача, які суттєво сприяють ефективному навчанню комунікативнихвмінь.

(ru) В статье анализируется понятие взаимодействие, а также рассматриваются основные принципы интерактивного обучения иностранному языку обусловленные необходимостью развития и совершенствования коммуникативных навыков студентов. Определены и обоснованы основные функции преподавателя, которые существенно способствуют эффективному обучению коммуникативных умений.

(en) The article highlights the concept of interaction, as well as the main principles of interactive language teaching conditioned by the need of development and improvement of students’ communicative skills. The basic teacher’s functions who significantly contribute to the effective learning are observed. The information presented in the article summarizes the basic strategies of interactive language teaching. Interaction is the collaborative exchange of thoughts, feelings, or ideas between two or more people, resulting in a reciprocal effect on each other. Through interaction, students can increase their language store as they listen to read ‘authentic linguistic material’, or even the output of their fellow students in discussions, problem-solving tasks,or dialogue journals. The first thing to be mentioned is that education process is based on interactive language teaching.Language teachers must study the language learners in their classes –their ages, their interests, their goals in language acquisition in a formal setting –and then design language courses that meet the needs of specific groups. It is very important to stimulate the interaction that leads to communication via language. Students must work in a nonthreatening atmosphere of cooperativelearning, where all can succeed because each has something unique to contribute to valuable procedure of learning and teaching. Interactive language teaching methods may be related to content being studied in the language, whether literary, historical, philosophical, scientific, commercial or sociological. All modern students should be offered the selection of contents and approaches. The task of the teacher at the lesson is: to organize lots ofpractice and these practical exercises should be oriented on using the target language for the normal purposes basic to all strategies and techniques. Most of the strategies deal with pair and group work and promote interaction. Encouraging students to develop their own strategies is an excellent means of stimulating the learner to develop tools of interaction.