INTENSIFYING THE SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING PROCESS BY MEANS OF IDIOMS
L. Chumarova (Чумарова)1, G. Fassakhova2, L. Islamova3, S. Zakharova4
1Ms., Кazan (Volga region) Federal University, Russia, chumarova@yandex.ru
2Ms, Kazan State Agrarian University, Russia, f.guzel-73@mail.ru
3Ms, Kazan State Agrarian University, Russia, liliyarustamovna@mail.ru
4Federal State Budgetary Educational University named after N.I. Vavilov, RUSSIA, S.Zakharova77@Gmail.Com
Abstract
The goal of the article is analysis of usage idioms in the teaching process. The authors want to share with their experience of taking idioms as means of intensifying teaching of the second language (English). It has been researched the principles of using idioms in a teaching process. The authors selected idioms of the second language and of the native one which give additional impulse in communicating process. The authors created some exercises with idioms. The best results in developing communicative skill were achieved by students when they use the idioms which reflects the history of the countries. The novelty of the experience in teaching the second language is that the authors used idioms in multicultural groups. Secondly, students were able to work themselves trying to find idioms which reflects their history. Such kind of tasks can help to develop the student’ critical thinking. Analyzing some resources, articles, the authors conclude that such kind of work promotes the activation of students’ intellectual activity, giving a person possibility to be a creative person. During lessons students had to explain the origin of their native idioms in learning language. They have a great motivation in communication because they try to clarify some points about the meaning of their phraseological units. Combination of native and second language idioms creates a good atmosphere at the lessons in multicultural groups. At the end of the article the authors analyze the survey which had been done at the end of the term and give some exercises with idioms which could be useful for junior and senior teachers, as the authors think.
Keywords: education, teaching, second language, idioms, national cultural components
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