Goals of teaching English at schools, lyceums and colleges

Goals of teaching English at schools, lyceums and colleges

Done by : Mamarasulova Durdona

OUTLINE: 1. The category “goals of FL teaching and learning”. 2. Practical and cultural goals of EL teaching and learning. 2. Educational and developmental goals of EL teaching and learning.

Key terms: goal , objective, means , practical, educational, cultural, developmental, skill, language units/items, motivation, performance

The category “goals of Fl teaching/learning” Any kind of goal comes out of the required needs. Goal is the plod of planned results and consequences of imagination. If one is asked why English is taught at schools, the answer may be that it is taught because of practical, educational, cultural and developmental needs to achieve special goals. Educational goal comes out of a social order-task and it is oriented to formation and bringing up comprehensive intelligent individuals. Goals o f teaching English have always been under discussion in different methodological works. In the second half of the last century, the terms practical, educational and cultural goal of teaching and learning English have been explained according to the requirements of society

Goals of the English language teaching are determined by the tasks o f all-round development o f an individual and up-bringing of students as well as by requirements o f the syllabus of a certain type of an educational stage. There are four goals o f the English language teaching: - Practical - Cultural - Educational - Developmental.

2 . Practical and cultural goals of EL teaching and learning Cultural goal makes a substantial contribution: - to developing pupils’ linguistic outlook, as they get acquainted with some phenomena which are not typical o f their mother-tongue (e.g. tenses, articles, EL word order); - to developing pupils’ communicative abilities; - to widening pupils’ communicative vision o f the world, as it enables them to get acquainted with the life, customs and traditions o f the people whose language they study; - to developing pupils’ intellect, their voluntary and involuntary memory, their imaginative abilities, logical thinking, etc. The cultural goal is achieved within: - the critical, patient and creative attitude to oneself and others, to a new culture, event, knowledge;

3. Educational and developmental goals o f EL teaching and learning The educational goals can be achieved by means of: - selection o f language material; - successful organization and conduction o f the English lesson and an effective combination o f its main components; - choice of visual aids; - the teacher’s manners and appearance; - teaching learners to work with books on their own, i.e. independently.

The main idea o f the developmental goal is how to teach a learner: - to develop the learners’ creativity, intellectual and cognitive abilities; - to develop different types o f memory (visual/audio, short/long-termed, voluntary/involuntary), attention, skills, necessary for creative activities; - to develop mechanisms o f anticipation, predicting, guessing, etc.; - to develop the learners’ initiative, logical thinking. These are abilities concerning to start, to go on and to finish their communication.

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