Abstract
The article deals with the relevant problem of educational and methodological support for EFL teaching for students of language specialties in Belarusian universities. The article presents an overview of the methodological textbooks covering the content of the discipline “First Foreign Language” for the specialty 1-21 05 06 “Romance and Germanic philology”, prepared by the lecturers of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University. The article describes the structural features of educational and methodological textbooks, their thematic and informative content. Various types of exercises (language exercises, conditional speech exercises, speech exercises) are reviewed. Examples of exercises used in different sections (such as Topical Vocabulary , Lead-in , Focus on Reading , Focus on Vocabulary , Focus on Idioms , Focus on Listening , Focus on Speaking , Focus on Writing , Project , etc.) are provided. The article draws conclusions about the importance of adapting EFL textbooks for students of language specialties in Belarusian universities in accordance with the communicative approach and programme documentation.
Highlights
In view of the intensive spread of English as a language of intercultural communication, developing competitive and suitable EFL textbooks has become one of the primary goals for EFL teachers and linguists worldwide
The specificity of the Belarusian situation, as well as that of the other post-Soviet countries, lies in the fact that programme documentation has been developed in the way that only partly correlates with communicative approach based textbooks used in EFL teaching worldwide
In Belarus, these textbooks are widely used in teaching a foreign language at language courses, in the university education system there exists an urgent need to develop new textbooks that would be based on a communicative approach and at the same time would correspond to Belarusian program documentation and satisfy the need of EFL students
Summary
In view of the intensive spread of English as a language of intercultural communication, developing competitive and suitable EFL textbooks has become one of the primary goals for EFL teachers and linguists worldwide. During the period from 2015 to 2021, twenty one textbooks were developed by the staff of the Department, three of which were approved by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus [3, 4, 5], and eighteen – by the Methodological Association of Foreign Language Teachers of Higher Education Institutions of the Republic of Belarus [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23] The consideration of these textbooks in accordance with the aspects they cover is given further
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