{"id":2375,"date":"2012-04-06T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eltweekly.com\/elt-newsletter\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2012-04-06T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T10:00:08","slug":"vol-4-issue-15-research-article-regional-component-in-foreign-languages-teaching-to-the-students-of-non-linguistic-specialties-by-d-k-kurmanayeva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=2375","title":{"rendered":"Vol. 4 Issue 15 \u2013 Research Paper: ‘Regional Component In Foreign Languages Teaching To The Students Of Non-Linguistic Specialties’ by D.K. Kurmanayeva"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#15 | April 9, 2012 |\u00a0ISSN 0975-3036<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
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This paper is submitted by\u00a0D.K. Kurmanayeva<\/strong> of\u00a0The L. N. Gumilyov Euroasian National University,\u00a0Astana, Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n

The higher education institutions of non-linguistic specialties are now facing a problem of students to be professionally trained and graduated from\u00a0\u00a0 not only in their respective qualifications and specialties but also in the faculty of comprehensive thinking and acquiring knowledge along with multicultural issues. This requires providing such \u00a0\u00a0important arrangements to be made for the\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0foreign languages teaching process as\u00a0\u00a0 various kinds of intercourse related to a given social and cultural ambience, sociopolitical activity along with the main professionally (specialization) adjusted intercourse as the dominating one. It will comprehensively define and shape the professional terms of reference and lights of a given specialist in the course of the higher education process thus incorporating all personal\u00a0 lights what allows the specialist to properly employ and\u00a0 accomplish his\/her professional activity\u00a0 by more efficient way, what in turn also provides for further mental development of individuals.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0In this aspect,\u00a0 \u00a0the communication component shall be the key one.<\/p>\n

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Thus communication abilities development in the course of teaching at non-linguistic departments is now one of the principal problems. A specialist must possess culture of thinking, such \u00a0ways and forms of speech in communication, intellectual skills\u00a0 as to be able to discriminate main issues and problems, analyze, compare, associate, generalize, connect available knowledge and experience with the new ones, of course, along with acquiring professional skills and knowledge. He\/she must also critically evaluate the acquired knowledge and experience, think creatively, and be able to properly formulate his \/her own logical wording and phrases on a given topic of discussion.<\/p>\n

But the modern conditions of social development determine the necessity of culturology knowledge, i.e., study of history and cultural features of various regions ofKazakhstanas being components of the national heritage.\u00a0 Therefore the main purpose of our study is the problem of defining in what correlation and how the regional materials is kept, managed, and introduced into the comprehensive foreign language teaching process.<\/p>\n

In defining criteria for assimilation of the regional materials and knowledge we shall employ the following principles of didactics:<\/p>\n

– inter-subject links in studying regional materials;<\/p>\n

– multifunctional nature of regional materials.<\/p>\n

Inter-subject links in studying regional materials may be implemented by way of using in speech information from various sources and domains of knowledge such as \u00a0literature,\u00a0 \u00a0art, \u00a0culturology, regional (area) studies which are to be employed as ways and methods in providing comprehensive improvements for foreign languages teaching process.<\/p>\n

Multifunctional nature of regional materials is the purpose of teaching and means of acquiring information in a wide range of knowledge branches.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to keep in view that in formation of linguistically skilled individual in foreign languages teaching process going on in the inter-cultural communication and environment justly language provides every individual with various\u00a0 opportunities to get to know and understand each other better, be an interesting and good vis-\u00e0-vis or company, \u00a0\u00a0sapient individual, to get familiar with historical destinies of nations, experience esthetic pleasure of having a good command in foreign languages including proper articulation. All that is exactly provided for by proper implementation of\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0inter-subject links.<\/p>\n

Teachers should enjoy the freedom in choosing proper methodology, ways and means of teaching process what will \u00a0\u00a0corroborate \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the necessity of taking into consideration inter-subject links in\u00a0\u00a0 proper using \u00a0of regional materials in teaching foreign languages what in turn will provide \u00a0teachers with an opportunity \u00a0to free themselves from conformism and conventionality and thus encourages and promotes them to \u00a0creativity. Comprehensive approach will surely increase knowledge and efficiently helps employ it in teaching and training process.<\/p>\n

Inter-subject links and integration of the regional component may be implemented in two following trends:<\/p>\n

First trend is related to the information about a particular region (area) from various subjects such as\u00a0 history, geography, literature, art that are to be included into the course of a foreign language learning. We introduce various fragments and bits of exciting regional materials into English lessons what helps students to be closely acquainted \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with culture. history, literature, customs and traditions of home area. Handling and further operation with the regional materials requires meticulous selection of the materials at hand what allows students to properly acquaint with \u00a0the history of the native area.<\/p>\n

Second trend is manifested in retrying to creatively comprehend the acquired regional information, ability to give tangible and definite form to and further analyze historical and\u00a0 modern trends in the home area developments.<\/p>\n

Progress of students is exercised in the process of their proper involvement into various projects, researches, studies, creative activity. As an outcome of such participation students shall acquire the following skills:<\/p>\n