Lecture the problems of linguodidactics in teaching foreign language methodology in ongoing education lecture outline

The problem of creating system of tasks and exercises is considered as the most important in TFLM.

Firstly, let’s try to understand contradictions as for using terms for different types of tasks. Many foreign and native sources present different classification of the system of exercises. For instance, S. F. Shatilov states that while teaching speech activities it has a sense to differentiate three types of exercises:

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   Language (non-communicative) exercises, which don’t have any communicative features or exercises which have some communicative orientation;
   
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   Pre-speech exercises (academic communication), imitating speech communication in academic situation;
   
3. 
   Speech exercises (authentic communication) allowing real life communication through different speech skills.
   

N.I. Gez believes that teaching communicative writing is based on 2 types of exercises 1) training exercises; 2) speech exercises.
N.D. Galskova suggests the following systems of tasks:

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   Reproductive (writing the text basing on samples);
   
2. 
   Reproductive-productive (creating own version of the letter by using different prompts: verbal (key words, logical scheme of the statements, Plan, etc.) and verbal visual (picture, series of pictures, photo and key words, phrases, expressions, etc.);
   
3. 
   Productive (without any help based on verbal or non-verbal stimulus).
   

Creating a rationally organized system of exercises is the key to the problem of effective teaching a foreign language. The importance of the system of exercises consists in the fact that it is supposed to provide organizing both the process of learning and the process of teaching.
In terms of organizing the process of learning, the system of exercises should provide:

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  selection of the necessary activities which respond to the character of a certain speech habit or skill;
  
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  determination of the necessary sequence of exercises;
  
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  distribution of the language input and correlation of its components;
  
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  systematic and regular performance of certain activities;
  
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  interconnection of different kinds of speech activity.
  

In terms of organizing the process of teaching, the system of exercises requires material realization in printed matter of a textbook.