Methodological potential of integrating innovative and traditional methods in teaching a foreign language to students of non-language universities

Abstract

The article focuses on the problem of identifying methodological ways to improve teaching of foreign students in non-linguistic universities. The authors consider this problem on the basis of integrating traditional and innovative methods, which are designed, from the point of view of the authors, to solve a number of specific tasks in the formation of language communication and speech-motor language skills more progressively. The article identifies the need for considering psychological and pedagogical potential of traditional methods of teaching a foreign language (for example, such as speech exercises, simulation game methods, etc., combined with innovative teaching methods (for example, technology of developing critical thinking, method of electronic portfolio, e-learning and m-learning, etc.). Due to the need for solving the problems of mastering a foreign language on the basis of sustainable foreign language competence formation, the authors set the goal of justifying the effectiveness of integrating innovative and traditional methods of teaching a foreign language. The research methods: a method of theoretical analysis, synthesis, a method of comparing and summarizing information. The article analyzes the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education in terms of foreign language skills and foreign language communicative competence, as well as specifics of traditional and innovative teaching methods, that comply with the basic concepts of achieving the objectives of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education. The results: methodological potential of traditional teaching methods and its increase in the context of integration with innovative approaches and technologies being introduced into the educational process has been revealed; the importance of methodological integration in the process of forming a stable foreign language communicative competence has been substantiated.

Keywords

• иностранный язык
• традиционные и инновационные методы обучения
• методический потенциал
• интеграция методов обучения
• эффективность
• a foreign language
• traditional and innovative teaching methods
• methodological potential
• integration of teaching methods
• efficiency