Makarova Inna, Anisimova Olga
INNOVATION VS. TRADITIONALISM (MULTIMEDIA PROJECT AS A NEW FORM OF TEACHING ENGLISH IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION)
Saint-Petersburg State University of Service and Economics
The paper deals with main characteristics of an experimental multimedia project (MlmP) in the framework of TEFL: its aim and tasks, planning, timing, realization and evaluation in accordance with up-to-date needs of college training specialists for the global space.
Keywords: TEFL, motivation problem, project methodology, innovation, multimedia project, communicative activities
New age demands new approaches to education especially when it concerns college. The problem seems to be more complicated when it deals with such a subject as Foreign Language. People from all over the world have already accustomed to the fact that they should speak two languages in order to exist harmoniously in the international context: their native language and English. The modern tendency to TEFL is to include it in the structure of all the subjects from the curriculum – as a result, the language becomes only the means, and not the aim as it has been before. Students study English during lectures and seminars on various subjects using it as the only way of communication. Though not all colleges have reduced the importance of English as an independent subject having faced the motivation problem: how to persuade students to attend English classes in which they have to discuss such topics as Animals in our Life?