- •The content of Foreign Language Teaching. Components assigned to the teaching of foreign languages in primary schools
- •The aims of Foreign Language Teaching.
- •Resources for Foreign Language Teaching.
- •The principals of Foreign Language Teaching
- •Methods of teaching
- •The content of teaching phonetics Teaching phonetics
- •Techniques for teaching phonetics
- •Methods of teaching vocabulary: a description of a word in English language, context.
- •The content of teaching grammar.
- •Student's difficulties in learning English grammar
- •1. Word order.
- •Methods of teaching grammar
- •The content of teaching listening.
- •Reasons for listening:
- •To get the gist.
- •Purposes for teaching listening:
- •The processes of listening comprehension: bottom-up and top-down
- •Types of listening:
- •Principles of teaching listening:
- •Resources for teaching listening
- •Live speech (teacher’s speech (another teacher or guest’s speech), face–to-face interaction of learners in interviews, dialogues, etc.) Teacher should:
- •3. Video materials:
- •The content of teaching speaking
- •Reasons for speaking:
- •The purposes for teaching speaking:
- •To train learners’ oral speech:
- •2. To stimulate learners to master English language and culture
- •3. To stimulate learners to think in English.
- •The content of teaching reading
- •Reasons for reading:
- •Kinds of reading:
- •Types of texts for reading:
- •Reading skills:
- •Reading principals:
- •Difficulties in reading:
- •Ways of reading:
- •The content of teaching writing
- •Reasons for writing:
- •The purposes for teaching writing:
- •Learners need to develop writing skills:
- •Writing involves subskills: accuracy and fluency.
- •Problems:
- •Connected penmanship of small letters.
- •Principles of teaching writing:
- •The content of calendar, thematic planning.
- •Tasks of thematic-calendar planning:
- •Lesson planning
- •The reasons of lesson planning: For teachers
- •For learners
- •Problems
- •The content of lesson planning The content of lesson planning includes the solution of the following tasks:
- •2. Presentation
- •3. Practice
- •4. Evaluation and reflection
- •5. Expansion
- •For effective teaching is important:
- •1. In speaking:
- •2. In listening:
- •3. In reading:
- •4. In writing:
- •Training methods and techniques for children:
For effective teaching is important:
1. To use toys, pictures, actions, games
2. To use computer programs and other multimedia materials
3. To use illustration support which help them how to speak, listen, read and write.
4. To use bricks or other construction material for teaching of structure of a speech sample.
After finishing primary school learners must have the following communicative abilities:
1. In speaking:
- To take elementary dialogical communication
- To create elementary statements about themselves and about world around
2. In listening:
- To understand and react to oral statements of partners in communication
- To understand requests and instructions of the teacher, the partners connected with game situations in the class;
- To understand the general contents of small and simple texts and to react verbally and mainly not verbally to their contents;
- To understand the short messages of mainly monological character constructed on a language material familiar to pupils.
3. In reading:
- To read aloud expressively;
- To read silently to understand the main contents
- To search necessary (interesting) information
4. In writing:
- To write letters
- To write a short congratulation
- To express a wish
- To write the personal letter
- To make and write down the plan to text;
- To do extracts of the text.
A lot number of parents try to begin the training of children to learn foreign language at early age. According the pedagogics and psychology the preschool age is the most favorable time for such study.
The majority of teachers and scientists think that the game is the main form of activity for children of preschool age. There are situational, sport, competitive, art and ritmo-musical games.
Basic principles of teaching English of preschoolers:
1. Sequence. The teacher mustn’t hurry to train children in spelling and grammar.
2. Naturalness. Children don’t have to feel any excess loading.
3. Persistence. The teacher has to interrupt studies for a while, and then to continue training, but already with other material.
Training methods and techniques for children:
1. Game: It is important to develop speaking, pronunciation, spelling, grammar in adapted way.
2. Zaytsev's method is adapted for children at the age of tree (the English alphabet on bricks).
3. Glenn Domana's method is adapted for babies. They are pictures with the words written on them.
4. The project method is adapted for children of 4-5 years.
5. The mixed method —it is possible to combine different techniques.
