The ministry of higher and secondary specialized education of the republic of uzbekistan

1.2.5 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

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From my point of view, learning occurs not only in the classroom but also outside classroom as well. In Uzbekistan in the period of information technologies there are lots of opportunities for learning outside the classroom, using internet and ICT, the student can listen song and lyrics, watch movies and do out-of-class projects. We should involve our students through extensive reading and dialogue journal writing. Every foreign language teacher must recognise the problems of the twenty-first century and their affect to the education. We must connect classroom learning to wide world opportunities provided by technology, internet, mass-media, use of network create opportunities for real authentic and meaningful use of English to prepare out students for the reality of the world.

If you can organise learning outside the classroom successfully, it can provide for students to develop their linguistic, communicative and pragmatic competences student can learn through interaction and negotiation of the meaning of given context. Out-of-class activities improve their levels of both accuracy and fluency. Learning outside the classroom has a number of advantages for students and teachers. It allows students flexibility and convenience in learning so that students can manage their place, mode and manner of learning, provides a pleasurable and positive language use experience, reflects students' needs and interests, allows for social interaction with others. According to the benefits of outside the classroom activities teachers can organise their classroom and out-of-classroom tasks. One of the ways of outside the classroom learning is extensive reading.

According to Day and Rob(2015) extensive reading is "an excellent vehicle for learning that language. Research shows that students who read extensively develop not only reading skills, but all the other language skills including listening, speaking and writing. It increases motivation and positive attitude to learning the foreign languages. According to Day and Robb there are five principles of extensive reading. They are:

1. The reading material is easy.

2. A variety of reading material on a wide range of topics must be available.

3. Learners read what they want to read.

4. Learners read as much as possible.

5. Reading speed is usually faster rather than slower.

Dialogue journals improve our students writing skills. They also grow them socially, mentally and emotionally with the support of a teacher. Dialogue journals provide a platform for future discussion outside of class on a topic raised in the lesson.