DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS

Abstract

The article describes ways and methods of developing and improving speaking skills of the students in universities as a constituent of overall communicative competence as long as it is one of the goals of a new modern competency-based approach to education. Thus, the ability to communicate, to establish and maintain contacts especially in foreign languages, is considered a prerequisite for the successful professional and personal life of a person, and for effective interaction with other people. Traditional ways of teaching foreign languages are overloaded by means which may actually make learning the language more difficult. The sympathizers, who voiced such concerns about language learning principles considered to be restricting students' communication time with an overzealous use of published materials. Their counter-proposal took the form of Dogme ELT, a materials-light approach to teaching, driven by the people in the room, their lives and their language. By using Dogme they put the learner back into learning. Dogme is an approach to teaching that goes beyond the traditional way of considering the language classroom in three important ways. First, students' language needs and their interests take the place of materials containing prescribed language points to be delivered by the teacher. Second, grammar and vocabulary work arise naturally during the lesson, but do not drive the lesson. Third, the classroom becomes a no-go zone for the English language textbook. the Dogme classroom is far removed from the preconceived idea of a lazy teacher, not having prepared their lesson. It's so much more than an open conversation class. It was stated that a Dogme lesson involves a hidden structure which allows the students to become autonomous in their learning and gives them complete control over what they learn and how they learn it.