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5.1. Lesson as basic link of language instruction

The lesson is the basic link of language training in a secondary school. That's why it claims to meet all the requirements of school training as such.

Every lesson must be a part of a sequence of lessons forming a unit which answers the tasks set in the Curriculum.

The general goal of a lesson.is enriching learners' foreign language com­petence with more language habits and speech skills in speaking, reading, writing and listening comprehension on the topic of the lesson.

Ideological and educational work at the lesson is a must. It should be so organized that speech in the foreign language (reading, writing, listening, reading) could serve as a means of accustoming learners to world history, cul­ture and science as well as to the most burning problems of the present time. Ideological and educational work at the lesson should be conducted in the process of forming learners' foreign language speech competence. Forming it through reading and discussion learners should elaborate their personal views and attitude to the most burning problems and factors of their intellectual environment.

At lessons of foreign languages fellow-learners and teacher community should help each of its members to come to their own conclusions concern­ing a broad range of social and personal problems, such as: ways of spending free time, choosing future profession, attitude to drugs and liquors, religion, racial segregation, homosexuality and others. Studying the foreign language is also to be used as a means of forming learners' opinion of the war as a social phenomenon, including national and religious wars, morals, ethics, history, science, up-to-date technologies, AIDS and so on.

Speech interaction at foreign language lessons should be so organized that all the problems mentioned above be discussed at them, this helping to turn "languages in education into language for education" and developing learn­ers' personalities [68, 5].

Besides the peculiarities mentioned, ideological and educational work at the lesson of foreign languages is to be aimed at intercultural education, i. e. at "construction of individual and collective cultural identities in learners" [68,5].

5.2. Psychological peculiarities of lesson

Below there are given four decisive psychological conditions which are to be followed in order to raise effectiveness of the lesson.

  1. The higher Intellectual activity of learners is the more interesting and effective the lesson is. It can be achieved through motivating students. In psy­ chology there are distinguished two main types of motivation: outer motiva­ tion and intrinsic motivation [21; 30]. The former appears under the influ­ ence of somebody's outer activity, suppose that of a teacher or a person who has been to foreign countries a lot of times and communicated in foreign languages.

  2. Processual motivation. This is a kind of intrinsic motivation. Proces- sual motivation in studying a foreign language arises in learners immediate satisfaction from the process of studying it. In the process of studying a for­ eign language its role is as follows: foreign language speech activities and the process of mastering the foreign language get high importance for learners in attaining their personal goals, thus naturally generating in them positive emotions [46, 20,6].

  3. The lesson is to be satiated with positive affective sensations of learners and teacher. First of all it can be provided by the teacher's good optimis­ tic mood, amiability, artistry, raising learners' self-esteem and interesting tasks.

3. The lesson must be dynamic: learners' activities are to change each other during the whole lesson, each one taking not more than 10 minutes.

Lessons can be classified into:

  1. Standard lessons built according to standard plans, including standard tasks.

  2. Plot (or non-standard) lessons built as fragments of real— life social and speech behaviour of learners.