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Khmelnytsky Humanitarian-Pedagogical Academy

Department of Foreign languages

Coursework

In Methods of teaching English on the theme:

Innovative methods of teaching foreign languages at the senior level

Of 4-year student, Group Phil-41a

Degree program 01 “Education”

Specialty 014 “Secondary Education.

Philology. English Language and Literature”

Tonkoshkura I.I

Supervisor: Humenyk A.M.

Ph.D, Associate Рrofessor

National scale_______________

Scores: ________ Mark: ECTS_____­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Commission members:

______ Melnyk R.M.,

Ph.D, Department of Foreign

languages Professor

______ Humenyk A.M.,

Ph.D, Associate Рrofessor

______ Fedorova O.V.,

Ph.D, Associate Рrofessor

Khmelnytsky – 2016

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………3

CHAPTER 1. PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT THE SENIOR LEVEL.

1.1 Features of mental activity at the senior level............................................6

1.2 Teacher`s methodological arsenal and its effectiveness in teaching foreign languages at the senior level. ....................................................8

1.3 The bases of teaching a foreign language.....................................114

CHAPTER 2. THE PECULIARITIES OF USING INNOVATIVE METHODS AT FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS.

2.1 Constructivist teaching strategies.................................................20

2.2 Communicative Teaching Method...........................................................22

2.3 Using project methods in teaching a foreign language..................23

2.4 The method of debates...................................................................24

2.5 Using games in process teaching English .....................................26

2.6 Role plays as a method of teaching...............................................28

2.7 Interactive Teaching as innovative method.............................31

CONCLUSIONS.........................................................................................................34

BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………..………………………………………38

Introduction

Actuality of theme:

Language teaching came into its own as a profession in the last century. Central to this process was the emergence of the concept of methods of language teaching. The method concept in language teaching—the notion of a systematic set of teaching practices based on a particular theory of language and language learning—is a powerful one, and the quest for better methods preoccupied teachers and applied linguists throughout the 20th century. Howatt (1984) documents the history of changes in language teaching throughout history, up through the Direct Method in the 20th century. One of the most lasting legacies of the Direct Method has been the notion of method itself.

The traditional or innovative methods of teaching are critically examined, evaluated and some modifications in the delivery of knowledge is suggested. As such, the strengths and weaknesses of each teaching methodology are identified and probable modifications that can be included in traditional methods are suggested. The issue was investigated by Brown H.D Corsini, Jonassen , Rodrieguez, Scott Judith S. Gould,

In today's world English is taught in a very orthodox manner. The basic teaching is needed. Teaching the alphabets and the formation of the words is essential and a must. But there is something that is even more important. The children must be able to speak the words and understand their meaning before writing them down. The foundation to teach English can only be taught using the orthodox methods of teaching the alphabets and the words and the rules. But then teaching only the rules is found to be boring by most students and it is because of this that they lose interest in learning the language. Although there is no way other than the traditional one to teach the basics of the language these methods must be tweaked a bit so as to appeal to the students. When it comes to teaching English to students of higher classes who already know the basics the traditional methods generally tend to yield poorer results that innovative methods. This has already been proven by methods implemented like use of stories, poems, movies, books and newspapers etc. These methods help the students learn the language better without them actually realizing and also it keeps their interest. This paper will provide a few of such methods to teach English Language. We note the following grammar translation method, communicative method, Direct Method and others

Object: Process of teaching foreign languages at the senior level.

Subject: Specific of using innovative methods in the process of teaching foreign languages.

Aim: To investigate the effectiveness of using innovative methods in teaching foreign languages at senior level.

Tasks: - to research the specific of mental activity of students at senior level.

- to describe the main methods of teaching foreign languages at senior level.

- to investigate the effectiveness of using of innovative methods in teaching foreign languages.

Methodological foundation course work is due to the peculiarities of its subject. Analysis of the concept "communicative culture" of modern foreign language teachers in modern educational context used in the comparative and non-linear approaches. Comparative analysis made it possible to find out methodical potential of this concept and analyze the main areas of teacher training in higher education. When addressing more specific problems in the system used, structural and functional methods.

Theoretical and practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the main provisions of the study can serve as a methodological foundation for developing ways to improve the process of training teachers of a foreign language in high school. Results of the study can serve as a methodological basis for research in the field of language teaching methodology and pedagogy. Its materials can also be used to create training programs, courses and reading, writing textbooks and manuals on methods of teaching foreign languages.

The structure of work: Contents, Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Conclusions, Bibliography.

CHAPTER 1 PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT THE SENIOR LEVEL.