Karakalpak State University Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of English language and literature Djavod Kurbanbaev

a) Relations of Methods of Foreign Language Teaching to Psychology of the Higher Nervous System. Being connected with the Psychology methods of foreign language teaching takes into account functions of the brain and the higher nervous system. I.P. Pavlov’s theory showed that man’s higher nervous activities – speaking and thinking – are the functions of a special system of organic structures within the nervous system. This system is developed only in man. It enables the brain to respond to inner stimuli as it responds to outer stimuli or signals perceived through the sense organs. Pavlov writes that all human physical activity is the result of the Psychological activity of the definite mass of the brain.

Pavlov’s theory of “dynamic stereotype” also furnishes the Psychological base for many important principles of language teaching, e.g. for the topical vocabulary arrangement.