Goals, content & principles of teaching foreign languages

The Principle of Activity presupposes a constant accumulation of knowledge and active participation of learners in the process of instruction.

• The Principle of Activity presupposes a constant accumulation of knowledge and active participation of learners in the process of instruction.
• Activeness is largely dependent upon interest.
• The main sources of activity are motivation, desire and interest
• The Principle of Accessibility. The teaching materials should meet requirements of linguistic and psychological factors: 1. correspond to the age and mental abilities of the learners; be neither difficult nor easy; 2. be properly graded; 3. be presented in such a way that the pupils have to solve one problem at a time.

The Principle of Individualization

• The Principle of Individualization takes into account individual peculiarities of the learner, his background knowledge, what he knows, his spheres of interest, etc., i.e. cognitive styles

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Now testing Questions.

1. What are goals of foreign language teaching?

2. What are the content components of FLT?

3. What are the principles of FLT?