The ministry of higher and secondary specialised education of uzbekistan the uzbek state world languages university the english teaching methodology department

Presidential Decree №1971 (May 23, 2013)
About Measures due to Development of Functioning Uzbekistan State University of World Languages
UzSWLU is appointed as basic scientific and practical center.
Creating Innovative Center
Reconstruction of USUWL Buildings
Methodology (M) is considered as a young and boarder science because it is based on the links with many sciences from one side and methodology uses its own conceptions and theoretical decisions. M as a science has been originated in the end of 19^th and beginning 20^th century, that’s why its achievements are not so grateful as in other sciences.
Methodology in professional sense has 3 main notions:
1. Methodology as a subject
2. Methodology as set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in arts or sciences
3. Methodology as a theory of teaching and a science.
Question: What do you think why methodology started its development in the end of 19^th century? Remember history.
TFLM is a science researching aims, content, methods, approaches, strategies, systems of teaching and upbringing based on the materials of foreign languages.
Essence of methodological science is investigation leading to discovering and grounding consequences of teaching, discovering objective structure and essence of researching feature. As a result research leads to creating theoretical grounds of scientifically proved methodical recommendations.
In modern methodical literature methods of investigation are subdivided into basic and supplementary.
Basic methods of investigation:
- Critical literature analyses;
- Studying and generalizing positive experience of the best teachers;
- Scientifically fixed observation;
- Probative teaching;
- testing teaching;
- Experimental teaching.
Supplementary methods of investigation:
- Questionnaire;
- Testing;
- Talking;
- Chronometrical;
- Interview.