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RESPONSIBILITY DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES
RESPONSIBILITY DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES

Author(s): Ilona Kildienė, Rūta Lazauskienė
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Kauno Technologijos Universitetas

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of responsibility development in communicative class activity. The paper gives the review of the concept of responsibility and reveals its characteristic features. The survey of students‘ opinions helps to identify possibilities of responsibility development in classess. The characteristic features of a responsible personality that have determining influence on responsibility development are discussed. Students‘ needs for foreign language studies, their motives of learning and skills necessary in professional carrier are analyzed. The advantages of teamwork and the foreign language learning methods that are the most effective ones for responsibility development are determined. Questionnaires (range and nominal scales) have been used for the data collection. The investigation leads to the conclusion that students are to be incouraged to participate in the teaching – learning process more actively and assess their own needs.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 35-40
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English