ROLA I MIEJSCE ŚRODKÓW TECHNICZNYCH W DYDAKTYCE JĘZYKÓW OBCYCH
THE ROLE AND PLACE OF TECHNICAL AIDS IN THE LANGUAGE LEARNING PROCESS

Summary/Abstract: One of the main functions of a language is as a means of communication. It is especially important nowadays with regard to the development of international relations and scientific revolution and an increased-demand for specialists with a knowledge of a language. That’s why the main task in language teaching is to improve the methods of teaching by using different means. Among the visual aids special importance should be given to technical aids which can be divided into informational, controlling and teaching. They intensify the ‘students’ work in class and at home, increase the time of contact with a foreign language, help to individualize the process of learning. Whilst learning the language the students, as a rule, do not get new information about the surrounding world. That is why the aim of technical aids is to help the students to transfer into the foreign language and do away whith an interference of the native language. It is necessary to remember that the programmed teaching and technical aids should be interdependent. Such technical aids as a tape-recorder record player and language laboratory do not help in the acquisition o f language skills in certain communicative situations because oral speech cannot function without speakers and a sutable situations. Only technical audio-visual aids can play this role. The most effective didactical means, which present the communicative model of a foreign language and induce the students to speak is language teaching-films. But it goes without saying that teaching-films cannot be the only means in the process of language learning. It should be used together with other visual aids.

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