Formation of Skills of Self-Organization in Study of Foreign Language Phonetics

Abstract

The problem of development of skills of self-organization in practice of teaching foreign language which will eventually lead to the formation of student’s autonomy is considered. Different points of view on the components of self-organization are analyzed. The article summarizes the experience of use of skills of self-study in learning foreign languages. The article describes the experience of 1st year students of the linguistic profession, mastering self-learning skills as a way of organization of independent learning of foreign language phonetics beyond the classroom with the goal of improving pronunciation skills. The novelty of the study is the innovative methods of teaching pronunciation, allowing to master foreign language pronunciation by oneself on the authentic material in contrast to the traditional, classical approach, where phonetics was based only on simulation models and learning conversations. The author’s development of self-study of pronunciation is presented using the maintaining diaries of audioactivity and independent listening to podcasts on the BBC, that contain a demonstration of how using a permanent teaching guide introduced aspects of self-organization, and students develop their phonetic skills successfully. The resulting experimental test data allow to conclude that this technique has a positive effect on students’ learning the characteristics of foreign language pronunciation.

Keywords

• self-organization of learning
• phonetics of english
• planning
• monitoring
• evaluation