Cases Typology for Teaching Foreign Languages to Prospective Teachers

Abstract

The case technology is now mainstream among modern technologies of teaching foreign languages and cultures; foreign language lecturers actively use it. The means of its implementation are cases of different kinds and types. Purpose. The authors of this scientific article have achieved an attempt to classify professional cases of English language teachers in a secondary school. Methods. The analytical review of foreign language teachers’ professional cases classification carried out by Ukrainian methodologists is aimed to distinguish general and distinctive features of analyzed cases – the applied method of scientific research. Results. As a result of the correlation between foreign language teachers’ professional knowledge and foreign language lesson targets, types of professional cases have been identified. Linguistic cases are correlated with the practical target of the foreign language lesson, linguasocioculturalcases – with its educational target, pedagogical cases – with the upbringing target, and psychological cases – with the foreign language lesson development target. Within this combination of targets and cases, the methodological case is the universal mean of implementation of all four (five in high professional school) targets of foreign language teaching in a secondary school. Kinds of cases are specified according to their particular types by five classification criteria: the case function in the educative process, the aim of its use, the form of its representation, the number of performers, and the format of thestorage medium. Conclusion. Our outlook is based on further scientific studies that assume the design of the case complex (linguistic, lingua-sociocultural, psychological, and methodical) for Bachelor students – prospective English language teachers with the purpose to create their competence in dialogue speech.