Use of infographics for the development of cadets’ speaking skills at foreign language classes

Autor: Yuliya M. Orekhova
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Vestnik of North-Ossetian State University. :146-155
ISSN: 1994-7720
DOI: 10.29025/1994-7720-2021-2-146-155
Popis: The search for effective tools used in teaching English in a military college within the constraints posed by limited time resources is a top problem of foreign language learning theory and practice. The implementation of the principle based on visual aids involves the visualization of linguistic and socio cultural material at foreign language classes and fulfills the requirements of new federal educational standard to the educational process in a higher educational institution, creates the conditions of better assimilation of information studied at the lesson, and encourages cadets to speaking activities. The author gives a very detailed analysis of the infographic method, as a mean of developing students’ communication and speaking skills, relating to the field of foreign language teaching. In the present article it is considered as a graphic way to present the information that combines text material, as well as graphic elements, which provide a visual support for speaking monologue on the topic. The didactic ability of the use of infographics at practical English classes was analyzed by the author. The detailed description of the pedagogical objectives, reached by means of this method, its advantages, possibility of its use for solving educational problems at different lesson stages was given. The methodological recommendations for the purposes of organizing infografic-based activities at English classes and the plan of speaking monologue (support scheme) on infografics were proposed for use. Also, the examples of tasks based on the infographic method, which can be used at foreign language classes in a military college, were given.
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