Keyword: «independent work»

The article discusses the main goals and principles of the organization of extracurricular reading as one of the types of independent work in a foreign language of cadets of a military air force institute. The techniques of working with text used for different types of reading are also considered.

The article is devoted to the method of writing a miniature essay «If I were a wizard (sorceress)...» in the second grade of a secondary school. Working on this type of compositions contributes to the development of imagination, speech, thinking of primary school students. The article presents examples of students' essays.

The article presents a system of assignments for independent work of the fifth grade in literature lessons, in order to increase the efficiency of mastering knowledge. The independent work of schoolchildren is divided into two types: activities during the lesson and after school hours, which may differ in the forms of work. The modern world also makes it possible to use electronic educational resources to create interactive tasks, which, in turn, provide a wide range of types of tasks. In total, five different tasks are pre-sented, which not only show a high level of performance, but also increase interest in the subject.

The relevance of this study lies in the fact that current educational standards focus on the self-organization of students through managing their time, building and implementing the trajectory of their self-development. In this regard, there is a need to search for new forms of organizing students’ independent work. The purpose of this work is to present an algorithm aimed at organizing independent work of university students through the online course “Foreign Language”. To achieve this goal, the method of analyzing psychological and pedagogical literature was used to clarify the concepts “independent work”, “digital educational resource”, “online course”, as well as observation and survey methods that help identify the capacity of the online course “Foreign Language” in organizing independent work of students. The article presents the format of the online course “Foreign Language”, describes its elements and the algorithm of actions aimed at organizing students’ independent work. The scientific novelty of this study lies in a comprehensive analysis of the concepts “independent work of students” and “online course”, in the presentation of a possible structure of an online course aimed at organizing independent work in teaching foreign languages. The article is theoretically significant because it allows us to clarify the types of independent work, the organization of which can be positively influenced by the online course on the discipline “Foreign Language”. The article is practically significant, since the presented algorithm of actions can be useful to teachers in organizing students’ independent work not only in teaching foreign languages. The main results of the study allow us to draw a conclusion about the effectiveness of organizing students’ independent work using an online course in teaching foreign languages. This is explained by the fact that independent study or revision of material is carried out at a time convenient for students. Assignments are offered according to the degree of difficulty in various aspects of teaching foreign languages (lexical, grammatical aspects, reading, writing). Students have unlimited access to educational information, and the completion of assignments is monitored and evaluated by the teacher, shortcomings and errors in the work are highlighted, and original ideas of students are encouraged.

The article gives a brief description of the development of educational and methodological materials to improve the level of independent work of cadets in a foreign language. The importance of teaching reading for effective work with foreign literature in order to obtain the necessary information on their specialty is shown. Examples of exercises are given both aimed at preparing for reading and designed to control the understanding of reading. Results of testing are presented.