Active methods and techniques of teaching English for future specialists in the service sphere
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Keywords: English language, learning, education, pedagogy, creativity, language.Abstract
The goal of the research is to demonstrate the efficiency of active teaching methods and techniques in mastering English for specific purposes of future specialists in the service sphere. The first stage of the research involves the analysis, synthesis and systematization of the theoretical background on the active teaching which develops language proficiency. The second stage is presented via the questionnaire survey of both students and teachers to determine the active methods applied at universities. The third stage is realized through the empirical experiment aimed at defining the most effective interactive methods and techniques ensuring the language competences improvement. The students’ survey results highlight that the most preferable methods of learning foreign languages are role-playing and business game, while the interviewed teachers’ priorities are group work, round tables and, a creative and productive method. The experiment results prove the increase of language competence after applying active methods of teaching among students of all levels except the elementary one. Thus, the research establishes the necessity to implement interactive techniques to develop the skills of coherent professional speech.Downloads
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