Plurilingual Approach to Teaching a Second Foreign Language to Students of Non-Linguistic Specialties
partners and employers. Besides, studies of the second
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Plurilingual Approach to Teaching a Second Foreign
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- 2.4. Ensuring Students’ Plurilingual Abilities in German Teaching
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partners and employers. Besides, studies of the second foreign language give the chances of better understanding the laws of the development not only of the native language, but also of the first foreign language. In this case the student acts as the outside observer who watches, analyzes, compares, draws conclusions, reaches each detail, generalizes and, as a result, progresses. Summarizing the above, teaching a second foreign language to non-linguistic students can be a difficult but gainful experience. It is helpful to find your own teaching approach, build partnership relations with the students and form a creative atmosphere in the classroom engaging all the students into active work during the lesson. Along with the traditional methods, it is significant to use innovative techniques such as role playing, case study, project-based learning, presentations, brainstorming, group work etc. They are forced to encourage students’ activity, enlarge their experiences of foreign language learning, stimulate the development of students’ creative abilities. 2.4. Ensuring Students’ Plurilingual Abilities in German Teaching German along with English has become an important means for international and business communication and dialogue between cultures. The table below on the example of German shows how each activity (technique) may be used in the process of a second foreign language teaching to form language competences of non-linguistic students. Table 8 Techniques for ensuring students’ plurilingual abilities Source: authors technique / methods language target procedure skills to be developed The open ending narrative tenses (Präsens,Präteritum) vocabulary revision students are divided into small groups and are given an unfinished text (abstract, sentence) without a certain ending. creative imagination, elaboration, ability to express and prove your own point of view A box of ideas (brainstorming) vocabulary revision; extending topic discussions a teacher provides students with a certain topic or a term; students are divided into two teams and give as many ideas, words, comments and associations with the topic as possible, compare, support and justify their ideas. thinking skills, originality, judging, comparing, turning unfamiliar to a familiar In/out technique [13] working with different parts of speech (Substantiv, Verb, Adjektiv) Students select words from a given block and decide about what is ‘in’ and what is ‘out’. Then you may also ask the students to make a dialog (an essay), create a story with the words. ability to select according to criteria, to communicate, give arguments, make compromises project method (“Starting a business in Germany” vocabulary revision students make up a business plan of their own future company in Germany strategic thinking, usage of theoretical knowledge in practical situations; stimulating interest to the future profession; ability to use research techniques “Platform 17” [4] Adjektiv; the usage of internationalisms and word which are similar in English and German: naturally – naturlich Students are presented a picture of the railway station. They are aimed to describe people waiting on a station platform (their appearance, plans for a day, occupation etc.). ability to make suggestions, classify, compare; imagination. Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 129 79 clear – klar blue- blau white – weiß to wait – warten to stand – stehen a platform – die Plattform (der Bahnsteig) Family budget (discussion) working with vocabulary A group of students is given a list of items to be bought (paid) within a current month. They must decide which ones they will buy and not (the sum of goods to be bought exceeds the family income per month). Moreover, they must prove their choice and give arguments. giving arguments, explaining, the ability to solve problems, analyse, individual and group decision making It is also possible to present grammar material in non-trivial way, teaching grammar creatively (instead of giving the student ready rules, supply them with a number of suitable examples that will make them formulate the rule themselves): Ich lese den Text – Der Text wird gelesen (Passiv).You can also compare some grammar structures with the English language (For example, modal verbs): Download 0.54 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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