Lecture-11 Organizing and implementing optional course and extracurricular activities in teaching foreign languages

By using creative teaching as a starting point, utilizing strategies and methods that stimulate the development of active learning and critical thinking and by introducing cooperative and experiential learning models specific interests are developed, while the students' understanding and application of acquired knowledge is also improved. In order to achieve this, it is essential to include elements of positive co-dependence, individual and group responsibility, the stimulation face to face interaction, social skills as well as group processing in cooperative activities. Let us also mention the following. By using contemporary work strategies in extracurricular activities, the work of gifted students can be discovered, stimulated and monitored, and it is also easier and faster to discover and guide such students in these circumstances; contemporary work strategies are an opportunity for a better social integration, the foundation for spending leisure time in a quality manner, they enable a permanent education of its participants and act as prevention against negative influences from the environment.

• By using creative teaching as a starting point, utilizing strategies and methods that stimulate the development of active learning and critical thinking and by introducing cooperative and experiential learning models specific interests are developed, while the students' understanding and application of acquired knowledge is also improved. In order to achieve this, it is essential to include elements of positive co-dependence, individual and group responsibility, the stimulation face to face interaction, social skills as well as group processing in cooperative activities. Let us also mention the following. By using contemporary work strategies in extracurricular activities, the work of gifted students can be discovered, stimulated and monitored, and it is also easier and faster to discover and guide such students in these circumstances; contemporary work strategies are an opportunity for a better social integration, the foundation for spending leisure time in a quality manner, they enable a permanent education of its participants and act as prevention against negative influences from the environment.