INTERACTIVE TEACHING METHODS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING: THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of organization of interactive lessons, emphasizing their important role in improving the quality of education, description the most popular interactive teaching methods (role play, presentation, conversations, brainstorming, projects, podcasting, video files, blogging, round table, discussion, situational analysis) at the English language lessons with students . It is proved that interactive learning is aimed at teaching students to be actively involved in their learning process. There are different ways to create such participation. This is mostly through teacher-student interaction, student-student interaction, the use of audio, video, video hands-on demonstrations, and exercises.Students are encouraged to be active members of the class, thinking on their own, using their brains, resulting in long-term memory retention. Interactive teaching methods are the actual way of teacher’s work in classroom, group or any educational institution. Interactive teaching methods, in contrast to the traditional ones, are based on the active interaction of participants in the educational process, and special attention is paid upon students’ interaction with each other. This approach allows teachers: 1) to create a classroom atmosphere that helps to encourage students to ask questions and seek answers, take (as a basis) the following types of training that would facilitate the development of critical thinking and independent acquisition of knowledge, encourage reflection; 2) to apply existing methods to become a thoughtful professional, that means to learn how to observe carefully, identify problems and create new strategies to solve them; 3) to be a model for other students, transfer knowledge to them. It was concluded, that the use of interactive methods in teaching a foreign language to future technicians helps to organize an active interaction of all participants of the communication process which results in the exchange of professional information in a foreign language and the acquisition of professional qualities and practical skills of communication.