The importance of country research project for developing language skills

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this article states about the importance of country research project for developing language skills. The author confirms that students' aspiration to know about history, culture, art, customs, lifestyle of the people, belief and others of the country of the learned language can be satisfied by using country specific materials at lessons. Education by means of a foreign language presupposes knowledge of the culture, history, religions and traditions of the country of the studied language. The author claims that, by obtaining two aspects the process of learning languages becomes more comfortable and convincing because of the real imaginative environment created within thegiven aspects. Keywords: country research project, country study, social and economic position, traditions, cognitive, social-cultural competence, integrated skills, approach to learning, discipline, language unit,foreign language, vocabulary. It is important that we teach our students to embrace and respect differences and to become aware of the world outside their own neighborhoods, communities, state, and country. One way to allow students the chance to learn about and interact with the world is through a country research project. We are so lucky because the internet can allow us to temporarily immerse ourselves in another country. Country research can be carried out in so many ways and Ihopethat this articlegives you someideas onyour country research unit. Considerable reserves of increasing efficiency of educational and speech activities at lessons of a foreign language are also connected with this. Methodic aspect of teaching foreign languages, in which the methods of making students acquainted with a new culture are investigated, is called country study. Country study presents information about social and economic position of the country and people whose language has become a subject of learning, and about customs, traditions, cultural values which are specific to this nation. Using country specific information at language lessons has applied character. It is included in the system of lessons in the process of acquaintance of students with the content and forms of speech communication of native speaker of the learned language. Such information provides not only with cognitive but also communicative needs of students favoring the formation of communicativeand social-cultural competence [1,45]. In simple terms, as part of social studies, students create a report on a country by researching facts about it. Their country report could be a wide range of presentation mediums such as a written project, an oral presentation, a poster, worksheets, a performance or even a video, you can be as creative as you like! Student can use a range of methods to research their chosen country. This could be through books, the internet, interviews or from teaching presentations and information sheets. It is so important that we teach students about different cultures to their own and to accept and respect differences, as well as to look for the similarities between us all. This is especially important in the interconnected world we live in today. A noticeable difference in the stock of this information among speakers of different languages is mainly determined by the different material and spiritual conditions of existence of the respective peoples and countries, the peculiarities of their history, culture, social and political system, etc. Thus, it became generally accepted that there is a need to deeply understand the specificity of the country of the language being studied, and thus the need for a country studies approach as oneof themain principles of teaching foreign languages [2,18]. First of all, other countries are learning about us and there is power in knowledge. Learners are generally curious about other countries and cultures so it isn’t hard to get them Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages 426 ILMIYVAPROFESSIONALTA’LIMJARAYONIDAMULOQOT,FANVAMADANIYATLAR INTEGRATSIYASI excited about this project but sometimes we need to help them see the importance of the research they willconduct. Here are somepoints you might want to discuss before starting your unit:  learning about other cultures helps us tounderstand differences  learning about cultures helps us to understand that there are different ways of doingthings and it isok  learning about countries helps us to see how people form culture because of the location oftheircountry  learning about countries helps us tolearn more about ourown country  learning about countries makes us more globally aware and knowledgeable  learning about countries helps us appreciate the world because in the end, we are allhuman beings –weall love, laugh, cry and bleed Some students will have no trouble choosing which country to research but some will struggle. You can help them by reminding them that they might want to research a country their ancestors come from, somewhere they always wanted to visit, a c