Development of students' grammatical skills using foreign language internet projects

Abstract

The 2019 coronavirus pandemic served as a catalyst for the development of new innovative methods for teaching foreign languages, realized in distance online and offline formats. Teaching the foreign language grammar is a component of the educational goal of teaching a foreign language. At the same time, the development of a methodology for the formation of grammatical speech skills of students in distance learning conditions has not been the subject of a dedicated study. The purpose of the article is to describe a step-by-step training methodology and analyze the results of a pedagogical experiment aimed at checking its effectiveness. The work clarifies the list of productive and receptive grammatical speech skills. Productive grammatical skills include: formation grammatical forms and constructs;selection and use of grammatical constructs depending on the functional type of text (essay or commentary when discussing a topic);changing the grammatical design of a statement depending on the functional type of the text and the communicative task;interpreting the meaning of a grammatical speech utterance;and identifying and analyzing grammatical errors. Receptive skills include: learning/isolating grammatical constructs in written speech and determining their meaning;correlating the value of a grammatical construct with the context;defining the structure of different types of proposals;establishing logical, temporal, causal relationships between parts of the proposal;and establishing links between sentences, paragraphs and text fragments. The innovative method of forming students' grammatical speech skills based on the implementation of foreign-language Internet projects includes four stages and twelve steps: familiarization with the essence of the project method;Internet discussion on "Ensuring Internet security. Netiquette";discussion of the algorithm for individual and group Internet projects;training work on platforms pbworks.com (wiki-technology) and blogger.com (blog-technology);learning grammar material through online platforms;definition of the project theme studying the requirements for the implementation of the project and its design;searching for information;individual and joint work of students in the framework of the project;creating a written statement of the established pattern on the online platform;student assessment of participation in project activities, self-assessment and reflection;and evaluation by the project instructor. The article details the content of each stage and the constituent steps. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology has been proven through the conduct of pilot training and the analysis of its results.