4. Role playing. Role playing is also one of the activity used in teaching innovative methods. They are used for improving the efficiency of teaching. Role playing involves the learners into active work by positively influencing on their inner activity. This creates favorable conditions for cooperative work. Such atmosphere creates their motivation, personal potentials of inner activity and helps to form practical skills and habits.
During the role playing such skills as creativity, getting out of the difficult situations, resourcefulness, self managing are formed and improved. Role playing has not only educational aim, but also has social aims because some life situation are modeled here for teaching.
When a teacher uses role playing method in teaching the foreign language he/she should follow the below given instructions:
Create cordial atmosphere among the learners who take part in the play.
Learners should feel free themselves and this will help them to play their role perfectly.
Create favorable conditions in the teaching process and use props.
Take into consideration the personal features of the learners.
5. Multimedia learning. This is the next innovative method. It is the combination of various media types as text, audio and video materials by the help of which teacher presents information to the learners. By using information technology as an innovative teaching and learning strategy in a problem based learning teacher tries to motivate learners to acqure knowledge through real life problems.
Advantages of using multimedia learning:
Improves interest and motivation
Various multimedia tools help the learners better understand the teaching material
Teaching process oriented on the life situations
Positively influences on forming speech habits and skills.
At present in the psychological and pedagogical and methodological literature much is written about innovative approach and interactive methods of teaching.
The word “interactive” is taken from the English words “inter” and “active” which aimed to activate the learners during the process of learning. Inter activity of the learners is the main factor for efficiency of teaching and learning, because working together in pairs or groups they cooperate in solving the problems. And this involves them into active participation in the discussions. In this case the members of the groups working together share the ideas and collaborate.
Interactive work will improve the feeling of responsibility in the learners. While working together in groups, passivity of one of the members of the group will negatively influence on the result of cooperative activity.
In the methodological literature much is written and talked about interactivity of the learners and ways of implementation it into the process of teaching a foreign language.
Here are I included an example of a interactive lesson: