Advantages of Video Usage while Forming English Speaking Skills of Students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages
The article is devoted to the advantages of video usage while forming English speaking skills of students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages. Thus it points out that it promotes language understanding as limited vocabulary may make even an easy task difficult to complete; it really provides authentic materials; helps to concentrate on different details of the usage of some language aspects thus to understand what was said, to repeat, to predict the answer to the reply and so on; helps students to pay attention to the visual elements which contribute to comprehension; promotes formation and development of the professional, social and communicative competence of the students; useful for the development of the ability to interpret the interaction of receptive and productive skills in general context and so on. We also pointed out that video as well as other aids has some disadvantages take into consideration when teaching foreign languages. This article focuses on the role of the teacher in the usage of video materials as a means of foreign language teaching, because a teacher who is well-trained in video usage is a key to its successful application. To confirm that video is really effective while forming the communicative competence the article contains the results of the survey conducted in the research.