The paradox of our age: modern pedagogical conceptions in teaching foreign languages

Due to modern technologies the world has become as tiny as a computer monitor, and the change of society relations has caused a necessity of the change of pedagogical conceptions. The problem of teaching languages at the present stage is defined in a different way: how to develop the values of the culture of word usage, how to understand speech esthetics, and how to motivate students to study literary language. The science-didactical tendencies in lingopragmatics include orientation to world processes in applying the principle of text centrism, and the communicative principle transformation in response to the challenges of time. The communicative principle of teaching is also transformed: the tasks based on topicaltexts require not only intellectual but also moral efforts from students. Thus, it is possible to intensify the work in class, when the language study is organized as a communication between a student (the addressee) and the author of the text (the sender), which makes it possible to train all types of speech activity. Students follow a particular hierarchy of speech act scenario: students read or listen to the text, then they think it over and search for equivalents in Russian - translate the author's idea. After that they are asked to express their own attitude to the ideas in the text, and they take the position of writers, creating texts of their own.

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