Recommended literature

4. Geremy Harmer. The Practice of ELT. London - New-York, 1991

5. D. Nunan. Language Teaching Methodology. Phoenix, 1991

6. Underwood M. Teaching Listening. London:Longman, 1998

Questions for self-control

4. What's the Use of Lectures?

5. Speak on lecturing technique, particularly the organisation of lectures, how to make a point, the effectiveness of taking notes, the use of handouts and ways of obtaining feedback. Prepare your own lecture on teaching grammar.

Lecture № 8

Using Innovative technologies in FLT.

Plan

1. Technology in language teaching.

2. Project method.

3. Using Websites in Foreign Language Teaching.

4. Using E-mail in FLT.

5. Chat in Language teaching.

6. What is E-learning (Distance learning).

1. Technology in language teaching.

Technology is becoming increasingly important in both our personal and professional lives, and our learners are using technologies more and more.

At present the main attention is given to perfection of the educational level, search of the new forms and methods of teaching, introduction of new pedagogical technologies, creation of new methodological complexes in Kazakhstan education system. Consideration of the problem of application new innovative pedagogical technologies, including informational (computer) technologies FLT process is especially important.

Computer-based materials for language teaching, often referred to as CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning), appeared in the early 1980. Early Call programs typically required learners to respond to stimuli on the computer screen and to carry out tasks such as filling in, gapped texts, matching sentences halves and doing multiple-choice activities. Probably one of the best-known early CALL activities is that of text reconstruction, where an entire text is blanked out and the learner recreates it by typing in words. For all of these activities the computer then offers the learner feedback, ranging from simply pointing out whether the answer is correct or incorrect to providing more sophisticated feedback, such as showing why the learner is mistaken and offering remedial activities. The CALL approach is one that is still found on many published CD-ROMs for language teaching.

Computer Linguadidactics is a new area of science which is going for problems of teaching foreign languages with the help of computer. The problems of Computer Linguadidactics are also studied in linguamethodological and didactic aspects (works of R.G. Piotrovskyi, A.V. Zubov, E.N. Nosenko, M.M. Kenning, etc.)

As access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) had become more widespread, so CALL has moved beyond the use of computer programs to embrace the use of the Internet and web-based tools. The term TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning) appeared in the 1990s, in response to the growing possibilities offered by the Internet and communication technology.

We see that our main aim is to convince teacher in the need and efficiency of using innovative (pedagogical and informational) technologies of the education. For this purpose, it is important to determine the priorities in the field of these technologies taking into account the aims of the education, as well as interests of individual’s development.

The use of technology in the classroom is becoming increasingly important and it will become a normal part of ELT practice in the coming years. There are many reasons for this:

• Internet access is becoming increasingly available to learners;

• Younger learners are growing up with technology;

• English, as an international language, is being used in technologically mediated contexts;

• Internet provides us with authentic tasks and materials, with published materials such as course books and resource books for teachers;

• Internet offers excellent opportunities for collaboration and communication between learners;

• provides us with authentic tasks and materials;

• Technology offers new ways for practicing language, using a range of ICT tools learners may practice in all of four language skills – speaking, listening, writing and reading.

According to Polat E.S. among varied directions in new pedagogical technologies the most adequate to the aims of the education are: cooperative learning, project method, multilevel education, case study, individual and differentiated approach to education, abilities of reflection, which are realized in all the enumerated above technologies.

New pedagogical technologies, which are considered and any others, that are used at present or only arising in minds of scientists are inconceivable without broad using of new informational technologies and in the first place, computer technologies.