THE IMPORTANCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Аннотация

It is difficult to overestimate the meaning of a foreign language for modern society as it influences directly all the main life aspects in the development of every country. Nowadays, to be a highly qualified specialist signifies not only to be professional in your narrow sphere of knowledge but to master foreign languages as well. There exist different factors in providing successful foreign language teaching. One of the most important among them belongs to Psychology. Deep understanding of various psychological aspects may help teachers to solve many key moments in their work: to find a proper method of working in every students’ group; to realize the right approach to students according to their skills and abilities taking into account complicated age peculiarities; to provide high motivation in foreign language mastering; to overcome natural problems, so called –barriers‖ appearing in the process of language studying. For getting good knowledge of any language, either foreign or native, everybody should be acquainted with Psychology – the discipline that is closely connected with language teaching.