TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT A TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY: PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS
The article deals with the problem of teaching the discipline «Foreign language». The low level of English language competency is connected with two main factors: firstly, the insufficient time for practical work at training language skills, made worse by the lack of verbal environment and low motivation to the foreign language study and secondly the disbalance between the classroom tutorials and the autonomous work of students. The aim of the study is the development of methods which take into account the particularity of a technical university and aim at the integration of classroom and individual work in such a way that they compensate the mentioned above disbalance, develop all the language skills: speaking, listening, reading, as well as the grammar skills and enlarge the students' vocabulary. The verification of the new methods results was made by the comparative analysis of the students' diagnostic test results received at the beginning and at the end of the semester. As the practice of usage of new methods shows, the preliminary project task and the continuous language work aimed at its achievement allows to integrate the classroom and autonomous work so that in the process of working students acquire motivation and train all their language skills. The results of the work according to the new methods verify its effectiveness regarding the students' skills are expected to be not less than at the basic level.