Impact Factor: ISRA (India) = 6.317 ISI (Dubai, UAE) = 1.582 GIF (Australia) = 0.564 JIF = 1.500 SIS (USA) = 0.912 РИНЦ (Russia) = 3.939 ESJI (KZ) = 9.035 SJIF (Morocco) = 7.184 ICV (Poland) = 6.630 PIF (India) = 1.940 IBI (India) = 4.260 OAJI (USA) = 0.350 Philadelphia, USA 609
competence, communicative task, communicative
goal, communicative direction, communicative
activity, communicative situation, communicative
approach etc. In the education system, all of these
terms aim at developing the students’ speaking skills
and competencies. The communicative process can be
achieved by applying the theory in communication.
Students can receive or transmit information based on
the knowledge being studied. In both cases they have
a role of communicators, and their communicative
abilities can be demonstrated only by their speaking
skills.
The tasks assigned to human speech activities
are
enormous.
One
of
their
functions
is
communicability, which is closely related to the
provision
of
communication,
attitudes,
and
interactions between people. In such communicative
acts people transfer necessary information to their
recipients and exchange their points of views. In the
process, communicators form their speech culture.
Speech culture teaches young people all the secrets of
communication e.g., everyday greetings, who to
speak, what, when and where to speak and how to
speak processes etc.
In the secondary education system, teachers rely
their teaching on a certain competency-based
approach while teaching academic subjects. In
language instruction, the formation of communicative
and linguistic competencies in accordance with the
requirements of state educational standards is very
important.
Cognitive approach (cognitio - knowledge,
understanding) means that one acquires knowledge
and develops skills and abilities independently. Today
this term may collocate with other terms such as
cognitive grammar, linguistics, cognitive psychology,
cognitive direction etc. The term cognitive refers to
the process of knowing the objective reality (world),
the perception of it by a person, saving it on memory,
interpretation and processing information and so on.
The learners search for the necessary knowledge not
only through listening, but also through independent
learning. The cognitive process ends with the
acquisition of knowledge and the essence of
communicative-cognitive methodology is producing
spoken language. So today’s main requirement of
education is to conduct oral communication and create
new knowledge, i.e. the application of a cognitive
approach to the educational process [2, 22] It is better
to understand the term cognitive approach as a
process of knowledge acquisition. Hence, it is
effective to apply both approaches in language
education.
Up-to-date learning process requires the
language instructors to use a cognitive approach in
their teaching and to instruct their learners utilising the
teaching materials not only from the standard
textbooks and course books but also from additional
sources by providing guidance on how to gain specific
knowledge using various supervisory questions.
Carefully structured questions and well-designed
materials will increase students’ interest and
conscious understanding and mastery of a particular
theme. The material learned and acquired by the
learners independently is stored in long-term memory
rather than memorization of it, this fact finds its true
evidence in psychology. The students find the answers
to the questions themselves and explore the theme
when working with the course books.
In the communicative-cognitive approach, the
students search for new knowledge themselves with
the help of the teachers’ guiding materials, work with
their course books, apply the acquired knowledge in
their life and see the fruitful results of their hard work.
For example, if the instructors use a number of
samples while teaching the topic “Antonyms”
students will not have an opportunity to think deeply.
In contrast, if teachers let their students analyze the
exercises given in their course books; draw some
conclusions on antonyms and find similar examples -
these may bring more benefit to students. Conscious
acquisition of the learning materials, on the other
hand, teaches students to get rid of memorization of
grammatical rules and to express personal views,
opinions and conclusions within a topic.
Cognitivism began to enter the systems of
pedagogy and didactics in the United States and a
number of European countries in the 1960s and it
aimed at forming the verbal (the students’ desire to
express activity and identity in communication)
methods of teaching.
In continuous education system applying verbal-
cognitive learning methods means to put a creative
person and his/her upbringing in the center of
everything [6, 37]. According to the requirements of
the state educational standards, the wide use of
communicative-cognitive method in secondary
schools is effective (see Figure 1.1).