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INNOVATIVE ORIENTATION OF FORMING COMMUNICATIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE N. I. Sherbakova
Innovative activity directed on introduction of various pedagogical innovations has special value for increase of efficiency in teaching foreign languages in professional educational institutions. Innovative activity demands psychological reorganization of teachers' activity. To change educational process, to bring in novelty to it it's necessary to overcome some out-of-date stereotypes of activity and to replace them with a new more perfect experience.
The deep dissatisfaction with absence of interest of students to study often acts as a main element of starting motivation of the teacher. The feeling of the dissatisfaction gives rise to innovative activity, is transformed to the dissatisfaction with activity ways. The teacher begins searching for ways of perfection of educational process, for strengthening students motivation to study and achieve mutual understanding. From many possible variants of perfection of work methods revealed during the search, teachers get out such ones which answer their inquiries and opportunities, propensities and professional credo most of all.
The chosen way forms a basis of the innovative program, which provides updating various elements of pedagogical activity: its contents, forms, methods, activity style, and all its technology. Then the new idea is realized, passes practical approbation. The way of action can't give expected results at once after having been found, it should be corrected and polished.
Results are expressed not only in successes of students, but also in feeling of satisfaction of the teacher. For example, our idea to strengthen motivation of students to studying foreign language, having constructed its contents so that it meets needs of students and expands their professional outlook, has passed a long way from selection of the contents and search of adequate ways of its realization before the first results - use of professional literature in foreign languages for preparation of course and diploma works.
One of the forms of productive educational activity of students which allows to realize to the full tasks of formation of the communicative foreign language competence of students in process of mastering the professionally - guided program of foreign language is a project technology. The project technology is one of the teaching technologies, including foreign language technologies, based on modelling of social interaction in small group during educational process at when students take not only individual, but also collective responsibility for
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the solution of an educational problem, help each other, responsible for success of others.
Creative team activity of students during work at the project not only makes the process of training more interesting, but also considerably more effective. The project technology can be considered both as a method, and as pedagogical technology. In educational process the method of project technology, being a complex kind of educational activity, integrates its various aspects directed on the decision of certain practical, information, research and other problem and creative tasks.
In professionally focused program of foreign language the project technology can be effectively used at all grade levels, but its role is especially important at the stage of mastering a foreign language in the field of a specialty. Project work during studying foreign language carries intersubject character.
Conditions for integration of subject knowledge develop in the system block «foreign language - professional subjects » what allows to consider examine the given method both as effective means of formation of the communicative foreign language competence of students in the field of a speciality and as means of expansion of their professional outlook due to the information received from foreign language sources.
Orientation to creation of the certain material end product makes educational activity of students more productive, and reduces break between educational and real use of foreign language.
By character of the end-product of project activity in professionally focused course of foreign language the following kinds of projects may be discerned: (a) information and research projects (the review of new technologies in a trade on the material of foreign editions and materials of Internet - sites); (b) publishing projects (bulletin board newspapers, magazines, albums); (c) script projects (scripts of video of films, organization of discussions, talk - shows); (d) computer presentations of new international technologies in the professional field; (e) creative works (a'composition on a certain theme); (f) translation of an article, a selection of articles on a certain theme from foreign editions.
The project technology creates optimum conditions for development of such personal qualities of students as ability to acceptance of independent critical decisions, susceptibility to the new information and ability to reinterpret it creatively, ability to see a problem or a situation in a new fashion, openness to new ideas.
Thus, the project technology can be considered as an effective way of mastering a foreign language as during performance of project work natural conditions for mastering by students certain aspects of foreign language are created.
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It is also a way of real use of foreign language. Project work can also serve as criterion of the level of knowledge. On this basis project technologies can be included in curriculums and plans as an additional creative component of the contents and form of quality estimation of foreign language knowledge.
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