PRIMARY OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT UNIVERSITIES GLOBALLY

Abstract

The need of provided scientific investigation was determinded by the vector of modern policy and strategy of Ukraine which is aimed at further development of the national education system through its adaptation to the conditions of socially-oriented economy, transformation and integration into the European and world community. Topicality of the paper is connected with increasing need for better students’ communicative skills in English. Taking into consideration the rate of modern English learning actuality and necessity, we have conducted scientific research comprised of four parts that dwell on investigating foreign communicative grounds for students of universities. Firstly, the paper was dedicated to figuring out English language teaching and learning objectives, such as: communicative competence; cultural exchanges; interdisciplinary connections; comparative study; cyber communities. Secondly, the study was grounded on the description of the most common communicative language teaching principles: learner autonomy, multiple communicative competences, contextual integration, real life and experience of communication, intensive methods application, practical communication skills acquisition, cultural environment learning. For the first time, the research findings have been claimed that the biggest advantages of the communicative language teaching methodology are characterized by the following features: foreign language is considered as a medium of communication; learning a foreign language occurs through inclusion the subjects for communicative activity; learning subjects have cognitive strategies and techniques of mastering the language; a preference is given to the interactive technologies and forms of work in groups as well as in pairs. Finally, in this article, the research has witnessed that promoting democratic values, Ukraine's entry to the European space on the basis of educational and scientific support for innovation and economic development is largely due to: modernization of the education system; optimizing the content of education; monitoring and managing the quality of education.