CLASSROOM CHALLENGES OVERVIEW

The importance of using authentic materials for the preparation of professional readiness of future specialists in high educational institutions

Karataeva Zhuldyz B.

Graduate student

Kazakh Ablai khan University of

International Relations and World Languages

Scientific advisor: Zhaitapova A.A.

Doctor of pedagogical sciences

ABSTRACT

This article touches upon one of the most important issue of foreign language education. The professional readiness of future foreign language teachers is formed and developed with the use of authentic materials in the teaching process. This article includes theoretical and practical parts. The author of article gives brief analysis and gathers lots of information about the use of authentic materials, stages of use. And to the last, the set of exercises and tasks which can be given in the pre-reading, while reading and after reading stages on the basis of using authentic text, which is called “Classroom challenges”, are presented with the sample (on the tables 2 and 3).

Key words: professional readiness, competence, professional skills, intercultural communication, authenticity, authentic materials, text.

The educational system of the Republic of Kazakhstan has permitted to the modern changes according to the external factors, such as political, economical and cultural interrelations between our country and others on the international level. It means, that foreign language educational process has to train specialists, who use foreign language in his field of profession according to the social requirement. Our institutions need the staff, who is competent, and who has professional skills and knows the innovative-informative technologies of teaching.

It is very important to choose selected and methodologically well-formed appropriate teaching material. The theme of written materials should be connected to the sphere of profession of learners, and help them to train their professional skills. Also, it is very necessary to work with authentic materials, because it can help students to make critical analysis, reconstruction and transformation of sentences, it shows that they can improve their reading skills. The key argument in favor of authentic materials is that it can create foreign language atmosphere to the learners, and motivate and stimulate them to learn foreign language. It is much better than using traditional methods of teaching, because learners can have a chance to interact in the process of learning foreign language, show their attitudes towards different language, culture, tradition.

In the scientific works of Russian methodologists, such as Galskova N.D., Nosonovich E.V., Milrud R.P., Krichevskaya K.S., Haleeva I.I. and others, also in the works of Seidualieva Z.D., Dusenov S.S., Imanbayeva N.A. and other scientists-methodologists there are a lot of arguments of using authentic materials in foreign language teaching process.

One of the key advantages of using authentic materials in teaching process is that it helps learners to be involved into the professional atmosphere. In the professionally-oriented teaching theory there are given the requirements to the authentic materials:

1. professionally-directed texts (according to Pavlova I.P., Morozova M.B.);

2. cognitive value of texts (according to Voropaeva V.K., Pholomkina K.S.);

3. professional-informative value of texts (according to Duplenko N.G.);

4. authenticity of texts (according to Vokueva O.D., Nosonovich E.V.);

5. indicator of the level of students’ professional and language readiness (according to Popova M.V., Sharapova I.S.)

In the scientific observations of foreign scientists, such as Bowen T. (1998), Marks J. (1994), we can identify that with the help of authentic materials:

1. students can form their personal opinion in the surrounding world;

2. students can differentiate the cultural, religious differences between native and foreign languages;

3. the increase of communicative-cognitive motivation of students;

4. to influence positively on the personal-emotional feelings of students;

5. the increase of the students’ motivation to learn foreign language.

In the process of teaching, teachers should know the stages of using authentic materials: (table 1)

In the practical part of the scientific research, we have chosen the faculty of 2Foreign Languages, 3^rd course (Kazakh group). The discipline is “English for Specific Purposes”. There is given an article for students according to their professional sphere (from the www.stanford.edu)

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CLASSROOM CHALLENGES OVERVIEW

Sometimes, particular students may cause you problems in class, without warranting major negotiation or intervention. A few common situations, and ways to work them out, are discussed below.

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 738