The features of problem-based method in teaching foreign grammar to tertiary students

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https://doi.org/10.15587/2519-4984.2017.90902

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group/independent work, explicit knowledge, heuristic talk, problem-based method

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of teaching foreign grammar and features of formation of foreign grammar competence in higher educational institutions according to the modern needs and changes. In correspondence with linguistic and psychological studies, the guarantee of quality and proper level of foreign communicative competence under conditions of artificial bilingualism is a formation of explicit grammar knowledge and increase of role of active cognitive activity and independence of students. Thus, at teaching grammar of foreign languages it is important to favor the formation of student’s ability to generalize information independently and form conclusions as to the use of grammar structures. The problem-based method effectively solves the question of conscious students’ approach to the mastering of foreign language and independent collection of knowledge. In teaching foreign grammar with the help of problem-based approach, the great recognition and use were gotten by the methods of group work, consideration of preliminary experience (linguistic and learning) and also heuristic talks. The important achievement of group work is a distribution of responsibility for the results and successes of study between teacher and student, first of all, at the expanse of formation of self-control skill that allows students regulate the own studying activity. Heuristic talk motivates students to independent formulation of new knowledge or ways of their obtaining, opens the way and logic of search. Based on preliminary experience of studying the native language, student pays attention to the different methods of work with linguistic (grammar) material and to the strategies of mastering the foreign language. So, the study of foreign grammar using the problem-based method form the skills of cognitive, scientific work that favor the conscious and independent mastering of knowledge, develop cognitive activity and critical thinking of students, form the skills of independent work. The skills of independent work, in their turn, allow student control the process of studying foreign language effectively and are the one of most effective means of successful influence on learning process

Author Biography

Вікторія Василівна Осідак, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Volodymyrska str., 60, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01033

PhD, Assosiate professor

Department of Methods of Teaching Ukrainian and Foreign Languages and Literatures

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2017-01-31

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Осідак, В. В. (2017). The features of problem-based method in teaching foreign grammar to tertiary students. ScienceRise: Pedagogical Education, (1 (9), 9–15. https://doi.org/10.15587/2519-4984.2017.90902

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No. 1 (9) (2017)

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Pedagogical Education

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