INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION: PROJECT METHOD IN THE STUDY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

• Людмила Никонорова

  НАСОА, м. Київ

As the new socio-economic conditions for the development of the world community have led to a change in the requirements for professional training, the education system faces the problem of qualitative training of competitive and competent specialists of a new level, focused on personal self-improvement and professional growth. That is why higher educational institutions are trying to solve new tasks, such as search and introduction of effective educational technologies, mechanisms and ways of teaching. One of such mechanisms is the project method, which, as a pedagogical technology, includes a set of research, search and problem methods. The method of projects is a set of techniques, actions of students and the teacher in their specific sequence to achieve the given task, i.e. to solve a specific problem that is meaningful to students and is designed as the final product. The main purpose of this method is to provide students with the ability for independent knowledge acquiring in the process of solving practical tasks or problems, which requires the integration of knowledge from different subjects. In English language teaching, the project method enables students to use the language in real-life situations, which undoubtedly contributes to a better acquisition and consolidation of foreign language skills. The article outlines the key conditions that should be taken into account when planning a foreign language learning project. In addition, the author proposes to pay more attention to international telecommunication projects, since such projects allow to solve the most difficult and, at the same time, the most essential task for methodology – creating a linguistic environment and on its basis creating the need to use English in practice. The article also lists the difficulties that may arise when using this method.

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