Goals, content & principles of teaching foreign languages

3. THE PRINCIPLES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Principle is defined as a guide to action, in our case as a guide to teaching

The methodology of FLT is based on fundamental principles of didactics:

The Principle of Conscious Approach: Conscious learning plays an important role in language acquisition, enlarges intellectual capacities of learners, and helps to understand new concepts and express new ideas in the target language

• The Principle of Conscious Approach: Conscious learning plays an important role in language acquisition, enlarges intellectual capacities of learners, and helps to understand new concepts and express new ideas in the target language
• This principle also implies comprehension of linguistic phenomena by the learner.
• The Principle of Visuality as applied in FLT is of two kinds:
• 1. material or ostensive, consisting of the demonstration of objects and actions;
• 2. graphic, consisting of pictures, tables, diagrams, charts, etc.