Developing students’ cognitive and communicative skills when learning foreign languages

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of forming and improving students’ cognitive skills in connection with development of communicative skills. The aim of the article is to study the effects of designing supporting schemes of different types on development of students’ cognitive and communicative skills in the process of learning a foreign language. The authors summarized research findings on regularities of foreign language learning by university students and revealed conditions of enhancing the effectiveness of this process. The authors have justified the necessity and appropriateness of supporting schemes application when teaching foreign languages that are analogues of inner speech universal subject codes. The authors came to the conclusion that one of the most efficient ways to form and develop students’ cognitive and communicative skills is to involve them in self-education, provide them with an appropriate algorithm of conscious and independent work with information, with each stage being constantly self-controlled.