Foreign Language In School: The Features of Learning.

Every modern school learns a foreign language. Sometimes, even a few. The most popular is English, although it happens that the main foreign language is French, German or Spanish. But, unfortunately, the true school situation is that at best the child will be shown one language, and the one with grief in half, but there is nothing to say about the second or more.

And what really is a foreign language in school? Imagine a large class, which consists of absolutely differently motivated children, with different rates of assimilation of the material and a different way of its perception. Even simpler objects under such conditions often turn into something obscure and impure. And what to say about foreign languages, for better mastering of which requires a constant language practice. And, studying a foreign language in school, children at best will be given a five-minute recording to listen, and in the language used a hundred years ago. And it is not necessary to say that "we teach children a classical variant of language". This is, in fact, a dead stock of knowledge, with which in real life we will not go far. Why do we need knowledge of a foreign language? Communication during trips abroad, reading of original literature - these are, perhaps, the main reasons. But today's spoken language, including English, is constantly evolving. And almost all teachers hardly have time for these innovations. And today's schoolchildren, like fifty years ago, can tell how their name is, how old are they. Well, a couple of common phrases. So, the same can be learned at home with any unpretentious course for a couple of hours. And why then study a foreign language in school, if it is easy to learn and at home? Even if you touch the vocabulary, then either it must be really big to read easily, or minimal, just to copy any text into the translator program and get acquainted with a good translation. The first option requires constant practice, rather than a primitive translation of no less primitive texts, abounding in little used, in fact, obsolete words. But in the new textbooks a lot of pictures, which, apparently, is called upon to draw the children's attention to the study of the subject. Probably, for the same purpose in many classes posters with photos hang. And teaching a foreign language at school in general will then be based on recognition of pictures. The best thing a school could do is provide at least a weekly communication of students with a native native speaker.

Still, it's not a secret that the qualifications of many teachers of a foreign language leave much to be desired. Many of them hardly had a practice of communication. But even if everything is in order with the level of knowledge, how can a class of twenty or more people submit for two lessons a week to submit material, interview and explain something else. After all, children, of course, easily learn new information, but only that which is attractive and interesting. And to interest an incomprehensible set of letters, definitely requires a great pedagogical talent.

Some advanced schools have already begun to teach foreign language instruction in primary school. And this is a big step forward. Although, here, of course, the sooner, the more effective. At this age, with proper approach, children can master any, even complex foreign languages almost on par with their own. Here it would be logical not to start learning a foreign language at school, but to attend to it in the kindergarten. But this requires both a permanent practice and an individual training program.

In the most ideal variant, of course, it would be good for each student to teach the language individually. And not in the manner of the teacher, but carefully analyzing the ways of assimilation of information by this child. Here also the variant of perception (audial, visual, kinesthetic), and the type of memory and speed of memorization, and many other factors. It would seem that this is obvious, but only a few elite establishments guessed that small groups of 5-7 people with similar characteristics could teach them language. Or even a grouping according to the level of knowledge and skills. Unfortunately, in our schools they are not even equal to the average student, but to the weak one, i.e. Motivate children not to reach out to the leader, but to loosen up, because such a level is considered quite acceptable. That's how the level of knowledge of a foreign language remains at an insignificantly low level.