Школа п. Долми Иринчинова Ц. Б

Муниципальное бюджетное
общеобразовательное учреждение
основная общеобразовательная
школа п. Долми
Иринчинова Ц.Б.,
учитель английского языка
March, 27-28, 2017


Innovative approach in teaching English at high school

I have been working at school for many years. I like my job. Working with children is great! It gives me much energy, expand my mind, just I study and develop with my children together, you know. According to the social search, teaching a foreign language is the second most difficult teaching at school after Maths.

The problem of learning languages is very important today. Foreign languages are socially demanded, especially at the present time, when the progress in science and technology has led to an explosion of knowledge and has contributed to an overflow of information. Foreign languages are needed as the main and most efficient means of information exchange of the people of our planet.
Today English is the language of the world. Over 350 million people speak it as a mother tongue. The native speakers of English live in Great Britain, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It is the major international language for communication in such areas as politics, economics, science, technology, business, culture, education, sport and mass entertainment. English is the official language of some political organizations, such as the United Nations Organization. It is the language of the literature, education, modern music, business, international tourism.
Russia is integrating into the world community and the problem of learning English for the purpose of communication is especially urgent today. To know English is absolutely necessary for every educated person, for every good specialist. This language is really required one.
Learning a foreign language is not an easy thing. It is a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and patience. Reading books in the original, listening to the BBC news, communicating with the English speaking people will help a lot. When learning a foreign language you learn the culture and history of the native speakers.
Beginning with, I should say that each teacher is to know “Aims and objectives of teaching English”
The aims are the first and most important consideration in any teaching. The teacher should know exactly what his pupils are expected to achieve in learning English, what changes he can bring about in his pupils’ knowledge at the end of the course, year, term, month, week, and each particular lesson. The term “aims” is considered to be a long-term goals such as to cover the upper-intermediate course program with beginners. The term “objectives” can be used for short-term goals that may reasonably be achieved in a classroom lesson.
There are three types of aims (objectives) which should be achieved in foreign language teaching:
Firstly, practical - pupils acquire habits and skills in using a foreign language;
Secondly, educational - in the process of learning a foreign language the pupils acquire their own learning habits and strategies, they learn to study;
Thirdly, developmental - they develop their mental abilities and intelligence in the process of learning a foreign language;
Finally, cultural - pupils extend their knowledge of the world in which they live and in which the speakers of the target language live.
The teacher also must know the principles of Teaching English.
Principle is defined as a guide to action, in our case to teaching. Methodology of teaching English is based on the fundamental principles of Didactics. They are the following: scientific approach in teaching, accessibility, durability, conscious approach, activity, visualization and individual approach to instruction, systematic practice. Except for the basic didactic principles Methodology of teaching English uses specific principles that are applied in teaching a foreign language. Let's consider them.

Since the aim of teaching English at school is to teach the pupils how to use the target language for communicative needs', one of the main methodological principles is the principle of communicative approach. It means that the pupils should be involved in oral and written communication throughout the whole course of learning English.

There are four types of language activities to be developed in pupils: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Each language activity has its own set of actions that are characteristic of this activity, thus special exercises are needed which should be adequate to each activity. So in teaching a particular language activity the teacher faces specific problems that should be solved since the development of each activity requires certain techniques and exercises. This is the application of the principle of a differential approach in teaching English, i.e. each language activity requires special attention on the part of the teacher.

The principle of an integrated approach is another methodological principle. Pupils do not assimilate sounds, grammar units, lexical items as discrete components of the language, but they acquire them in sentence-patterns, pattern-dialogues related to certain situations. Pupils should use their skills in the four language activities as interdependent parts of their language experience.

The principle of durability implies the ability of a pupil to keep in his memory linguistic and language material he learns of ready access, i.e. the pupil can use units of the language whenever he needs them for oral or written communication. The durability is ensured: - by vivid presentation of material; - by constant revision and drills; - by the use of the material on the part of the learner for communicative needs; - by systematic control; - by constant supervision of pupil's habits and skills on the part of the teacher.
In his work every teacher tries to use different methods to encourage his pupils to achieve the communicative aim of learning a foreign language. Foreign language teachers learn:

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  best practices for instruction that can be applied to any language,
  
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  practical design for activities and lesson plans that can be adapted for any language classroom,
  
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  analysis of classroom materials and classroom interactions, and
  
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  opportunities to learn by observing the development of actual foreign language teachers.
  

No doubt, there are many methods of teaching such as:
-the direct method (in this method the teaching is done entirely in the target language. The learner is not allowed to use his or her mother tongue. Grammar rules are avoided and there is emphasis on good pronunciation);