Project activity as a means of improving the effectiveness of English language teaching at the university

Abstract

The relevance of the research is due to the need to find effective methods of teaching English in higher education in the context of globalization and internationalization of higher education. The purpose of the work is to theoretically substantiate and experimentally verify the effectiveness of project activities as a means of improving the effectiveness of teaching English to university students. To achieve this goal, a set of methods was used: theoretical analysis of scientific literature, modeling, pedagogical experiment, testing, questionnaires, statistical methods of data processing. The pedagogical experiment was conducted on the basis of A. A. Kadyrov ChSU with students of 2-3 courses (n=128). The results of the study showed that: 1) the introduction of project activities into the practice of teaching English helps to increase students' motivation; 2) project work develops students' communicative and research skills, creativity, independence; 3) group projects improve the psychological climate in the educational team; 4) according to the results of the experiment, English proficiency rates significantly increased in experimental groups. The results obtained confirm the effectiveness of the project method as a tool for optimizing language training at the university. The theoretical significance of the work lies in clarifying the concept of "project activity" in relation to teaching foreign languages, substantiating the conditions for the implementation of project work in language disciplines. The practical value is associated with the possibility of using the developed model of project-based learning in the educational practice of universities. The prospects for the study are seen in the approbation of the proposed methodology on a wider contingent of students in different fields of training.