Emotional value technology of foreign-language education for the development of speech communication abilities

Abstract

The problem for the research. The focus of civilization on the priority of humanistic values implies a change in the way of thinking and actions of modern man. This requires from an individual new skills and value orientations. Not without reason, today in the methodology of teaching foreign languages, much attention is paid to the involvement of the emotional value component in the process of foreign-language education. The search for the means to implement it forced us to turn to the emotional value technology. The purpose of the research is to characterize the emotional value technology of foreign-language education and prove its effectiveness at the stage of development of foreign-language speech abilities. Methods of investigation. The experiment involved 64 students of the 5th and 6th grades of schools in Kirov. To obtain the data, the following methods were used: of calculating the success rate, based on the criteria and levels of evaluation the results of mastering by secondary school students the content of foreign-language education in combination of “intellectual” and emotional value components; of mathematical statistics (standard deviation, F-criterion). The findings of the study. The results of the final check displayed that the level of mastering the components of foreign-language education (“intellectual” components + the emotional value component) increased in 88% of students; it did not change in 12%. Differences are explained not by random factors, but by experimental training (F = 2,47; p < 0,05). These data prove the effectiveness of the emotional value technology at the stage of development of students’ foreign-language speech abilities. Conclusions. In the process of adapting the model of the emotional value technology of foreign-language education, it turned out to be capable to function in the conditions of the development of speech communication abilities. The result was a contribution to the formation of the student’s linguacultural personality. This personality is characterised by foreign-language speech abilities in listening, speaking, reading, written speech, emotional and sensory recognition of cultural values and inner comprehension of their meaning.