This article is an attempt to show new ways of teaching model Russian pronunciation to Polish students of Russian language and literature who only begin to learn Russian. The author of the article claims that groups of beginners should not only be taught phonetics during the first several weeks of studies in the form of intensive courses of articulation and intonation. The process of forming correct pronunciation habits in these groups should carefully follow the principle of complexity involved in acquiring speaking skills.
The author of the article points out the advantages of using the discussion method (which is one of the strategies of problem teaching) during foreign language classes. This strategy creates the possibility to develop various competences in learners, for example: the competence of formulating their own opinion; the competence of expressing their point of view; the competence of achieving consensus and formulating decisions reached through solving the problem together with a group of learners; the competence of summing up. In the process of foreign language teaching, discussion is the most effective and also the most complicated form of language practice, and one which requires multi-stage preparation.
Individualization of Teaching as Main Task of Teacher in Contemporary School Abstract In the methology of foreign language teaching, the approach concentrated on a learner (student centered approach) develops dynamically. According to this principle, teacher's task is to discover the student's individual potential. The author of the article points out that the principle of individualization of teaching cannot be investigated in the narrow scope, i.e. by taking into account in the didactic process and differentiating them according to the scale: a weak, medium, strong student. In the article, the author indicates that the student's personality is a more complicated phenomenon. The following components may be considered as the basic features of student's personality: the worldview, the life experience, the context of activity, the interests and inclinations, the emotions and feelings, the status of personality in a collective body. In the article, the author points out that the individuality is a more complex phenomenon, that includes student's individual features, subjective features and personality features, The problem of student's individual features and of student's individualization in the teaching process are widely discussed by a prominent glottodidacticist J. I. Passov and because of it the author of the article considered advisable to present the views of this scholar. Key words: a weak student, middle student, strong student, personality, individuality of a student, communicative directing, reading, speaking
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