3.2.4. Kitajgorodskaya's Method of Activation of Individual and Group Potential

The method was created by professor G. J.Kitaygorodskaya from Moscow 5. 16]. The theoretical foundations of the method included the following:

• Dr. G.Lozanov's ideas about ways of application of suggestopedia in teaching [22];

• the ideas of psycholinguistic peculiarities of speech interaction [6; 20];

• the ideas of humanistic pedagogy and comprehension-based methods 151].

kitaygorodskaya's Method is one of the most effective method of teach-■ ^ foreign languages which has ever been put forward in methodology for .^hing speaking.

Its methodological principles are as follows:

I The principle of personal speech interaction. The term implies that real-r communication in the target language in the form of natural informa-

- exchange takes place in class from the very beginning of teaching; the - -osphere of enjoying language learning is created and learners exchange jeas. views, information, opinions which are personally important for each :nem and are socially coloured.

2. Principles of role-playing and language games. Lessons are conducted as . >лаге game, learners being involved into affective engagement. It is achieved by attributing a new public role to each of the learners in a circle. They be­come free from the feeling that they are slow in studies, thinking and memo­rizing. These are not they who are slow, these are the personages, whose roles they perform, who are slow. The technique of infantilization is often used. Necessary meaningful information about personages is given to learners. The meaningful contents of role-playing are to answer the interests and intellec­tual level of the learners.

Language games are used both in studying vocabulary and grammar. First the method teaches the art and strategies of communication and then Gram­mar which is studied in consciousness-raised activities and with the use of translation when it is necessary.