THE STUDENTS PROJECT IN IMPROVING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

Abstract

The article studies a new method of social interaction “university – school”. It is the organizational methodological project “Yazykovaya prodlenka” (English language study after-school activities). It was implemented by linguistics students during the study of academic discipline “Project Activities”. The aim of the students’ project is to help primary school children to master English. The conducting additional classes and extracurricular activities are considered as a tool to improve performance in English. The article describes educational potential and importance of extracurricular activities for the development of cognitive and social motives and stimulation to knowledge acquisition by children. Summarizing the results of the work confirms the dynamics in the improvement academic performance in English: 42% of pupils had progress in their English study and received a good mark “4”; 26% received a satisfactory mark “3”. The marks of 32% of the pupils did not improve, but primary school children are confident to have better knowledge and to be interest in subject learning more than before.