INCREASING ORAL COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT STUDENTS AT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

• Лариса Гронь

  Рівненський державний гуманітарний університет

Abstract. The article deals with the problem of increasing oral communicative activity of foreign language department students at higher education institutions by means of project technology. The main objective of the work is to analyze how this method can be used effectively in order to raise the level of foreign language proficiency and create the conditions of encouraging students’ communicative competence development for practical mastery of a foreign language which includes the main components: speech competence (the ability to communicate in all forms of speech activity); linguistic competence (language acquisition relating to the topic as an important basis for speaking skills); socio-cultural competence (the development of knowledge about the social and cultural specificity of a second language).

In the work the essence of project technology as one of the important innovative method to increase foreign language communicative skills of future specialists is specified. The features of the main existing project types and methodological stages of working at project (planning, analytical stage, synthesizing information, presentation, assessment) have been analyzed. The ways of project-based learning application in the system of teaching foreign language students of higher education institutions have been suggested, the factors which influence on the effectiveness of conducting independent work by means of project have been considered.

Project method also develops students' critically thinking ability, the ability to extract information from a variety of sources, serves as a crucial motivation factor for gaining new knowledge, enables students to realize their own interest in the area of project theme or the research article, allows to individualize the process of studies as a whole.

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