THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE: CONTINUOUS UPGRADING OF SKILLS AND RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGES OF MODERNITY WITH THE CONCEPT “LEARNING TO LEARN GERMAN“

• Лариса Середюк

  РДГУ

The article analyzes the importance and relevance of applying of the latest didactic and methodological principles that underpin the DLL program in the process of German language learning and meet current requirements for knowledge, which can help the students to achieve great success in learning of foreign language and allow them to act with  a language. DLL meets international quality standards for methodological education and offers tasks for the systematic observation and analysis of learning activities with a help of video recordings of foreign language lessons in different countries. DLL focuses on the students, who are the main actors in the learning process.

The article outlines also the relevant  items and traditional topics such as skills development, teaching grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, literature, social work etc. All these aspects are integrated into the overall concept of the lesson, the aim of which is the development of the relevant competencies of the students.

The article is devoted to the study of the new training program of the German language teachers of the Goethe-Institut "Learning to Learn German" and its implementation in the foreign language classes. The article analyzes the importance and relevance of applying of the latest didactic and methodological principles that underpin the DLL program in the process of German language learning.

The article also analyzes the concept of a practical research project (PRP) that facilitates the reflective learning of material in one's own experience and helps to see the German lessons in a new light. The chosen titel indicates that it does not refer to a sufficiently extensive study of the phenomena of the context of the lesson. Workshop participants are inspired by the fact that the issues or challenges they face in the classroom can be solved on their own or with the help of colleagues in the context of the PRP. During the PRP, they observe the context of the lesson, interview students, work out didactic decisions, and test it all at their own lesson. Each alignment workshop culminates for the participants in planning, performing and presenting a practical research project in threesomes or tandems. Thus, the article explores that the work according to the new training program of the German language teachers of the Goethe-Institut "Learning to Learn German" involves developing skills such as using information technology to solve professional tasks, autonomous learning and self-organization, working in a group, finding the ways of solving the problem situation, choosing and justifying the most rational option, presentation skills, skills of working at the online platform of the Moodle of Goethe-Institut.

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