Improving the efficiency of teaching of higher educational stablishments students to listening and speaking on foreign languages by means of interactive technologies

Abstract

The article analyzes interactive technologies for teaching speaking and computer technologies for teaching listening, which are used to improve the foreign communication skills of students of higher educational institutions. The test tasks for checking the English listening competence at each of the stages of working with audio text are introduced. Computer tests are offered to improve students’ listening skills and abilities. Various computer exercises are used to check, assess and evaluate lexical and grammatical skills, language and semantic anticipation, understanding of a gist, details and specific information of the text. The stages of working with a listening text (pre-listening, while-listening and post-listening) are provided. The analysis of the “Hot Potatoes” software is given. The following types of computer exercises: multiple choice, multi-select, gap-filling, matching, crossword and jumbled-sentence are described and elaborated. A certain computer exercise is used at a certain stage to check and assess a particular skill or ability. The most widely spread Kagan Structures are also described and elaborated, which can be effectively used for developing speaking skills at the foreign language lesson. Kagan Structures give students the opportunity to practice communicating with others while engaging in assignments that are meant to improve their speaking skills in the target language. Moreover, Kagan Structures develop good cooperative skills, which include the skills such as how to listen actively, how to explain yourself in a clear and concise manner, how to effectively ask others for clarifications, how to persuade your groupmates and how to resolve conflicts. This way students’ Серія: Педагогічні науки. – Вип.3. – Бердянськ : БДПУ, 2018. – 312 с. ICV 2017: 63.43 DOI 10.31494/2412-9208-2018-1-3 204 communication with peers forms the basis for more complex thinking and understanding. As a result when participating in cooperative Kagan Structures students develop their reasoning strategies in ways that would be impossible to do while learning in a competitive or individualistic environment.