Cultural aims

Educational aims

Aims of FLT in a secondary school

Aims, content, principles of FLT. Methods, techniques and exercises in the teaching-learning process.

Lecture 2

Word order

A certain role in pointing out FSP is played by syntactic word order. It is believed that in neutral style the rheme usually follows the theme. Thus the communicative dynamism increases towards the end of the sentence.

E.g. Came a beautiful autumn day.

Objectives: SWBAT distinguish between aims of teaching foreign languages; describe and analyze components of the content of FLT; discuss principles of foreign language teaching and learning and.choose the most important of them.

Plan

1. Aims of FLT in a secondary school
2. Content of FLT in a secondary school
3. Principles of FLT in a secondary school
4. Methods and techniques in the teaching-learning process. Types of exercises.

According to Rogova there are three aims which should be achieved in foreign language teaching: practical, educational, cultural.

Practical aims.

Students should acquire a language as a means of communication and be able to use it while listening, reading, speaking, writing. This is reflected in the syllabus in accordance with the stages of instruction.

Learning a second language is of great educational value. Since language is connected with thinking, through foreign language study students develop their intellect. Students have to memorize words, sentence patterns, idioms, structures; thus they develop their voluntary and involuntary memory. Through learning a foreign language students understand how words express thoughts, how the language functions; thus they come to the better understanding of their native language. Teaching a foreign language contributes to the linguistic education of the students; they extend their knowledge of phonic, graphic, structural and semantic aspects of language through contrastive analysis of language phenomena. Learning a second language also develops students’ imagination and willpower.

Learning a foreign language students read books, magazines, watch films, study such materials as maps, photos, menus, pictures, posters. In this way they get acquainted with the life, customs and traditions of people whose language they study.

Practical, educational and cultural aims are related and form a unity. The leading role belongs to practical aims, because the others can only be achieved through the practical command of the foreign language.

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