The Usage of Project-Based Technologies While Teaching a Foreign Language as a Way to Intensificate Group Interaction of Students
New values and priorities of modern educational policy together with modern scientific achievements presume the choice of the most effective teaching methods. Teachers increasingly more tend to use active and interactive pedagogical technologies in their teaching process. The field of foreign language education is not an exception. For that reason it is strongly recommended to conduct a complex research concerning the prospects of use of such interactive methods of foreign language education as project-based technologies. These are the project-based technologies that can be used to fulfil productive foreign language teaching process, as they are supposed to develop students conversational skills, cooperation, motivation and creative abilities, taking into account individual peculiarities of educational process and participants of conversation. Project-based technologies stipulate problem solving either by one student or a group of students. Such aspects as the application of different ways and methods, favorable conditions of educational process, interdisciplinary knowledge and skills integration, creativity of students - all this is peculiar to project-based technologies. This article is devoted to the examination of such questions as forming group cooperation skills with the help of project-based technologies in foreign language studies. Special attention is paid to the use of project-based methods in the process of development such students skills as communication, cooperation and socialization. In the article the author analyzes the main problems students face while learning a foreign language, justifies the necessity of project-based technologies application, lists the main prospects of it, reveals principles, which contribute to the effective students’ interaction. According to the research logic to achieve the aims pointed in the article the author used a complex of theoretical and empirical methods, such as theoretical analysis, generalization, participants observation.