1. Psycho-pedagogical peculiarities of flt at senior stage of a full secondary school

19. Characteristics and peculiarities of using cooperative learning in profile and professionally-oriented foreign language education.
Cooperative Learning refers to a systematic instructional method in which students work together in small groups to accomplish shared learning goals.
Cooperative learning in profile and professionally-oriented foreign language education shares some characteristics with communicative language teaching. They both give high light to the interaction and communication between students and students and teachers, take teachers’ role as guider, facilitator, and negotiator, and stress the autonomy and centricity of the students in classroom. They both consider healthy relationships with other classmates are more conductive to learning, and respect the integrity of learners, allowing for personal growth and responsibility, etc. The communicative function of language can also find its way in cooperative language learning.
Cooperative activities of students in the process of learning the educational material means that each student contributes own special differential contribution, while that the exchange of knowledge, ideas and ways of activity take place. Moreover, this happens in an atmosphere of goodwill and mutual support, which allows not only to gain new knowledge, but also to develop the cognitive activity, to bring it to a higher form of cooperation ad collaboration.
More than that, the “cооperаtive leаrning” can be distinguished besides the interactive learning technologies mentioned above which are aimed at the development of communicative competence. Cooperative learning is a model of organizing the activities of the trainees in small groups. One of the options is a “student teаm leаrning”. This method pays special attention to the “teаm gоаls” and the success of the entire group (teаm success), which can be achieved only as a result of independent work of each member of the group (team) in constant interaction with other members of the same group while working on a subject or an issue of the study.