GAME TECHNOLOGIES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ASPECTS

Abstract

The article deals with the role, place and didactic value of the game technologies in teaching schoolchildren to foreign languages. Considerable attention is paid to the review of psychological aspects of this problem as interpreted by well-known scholars, citing their approaches to this problem, analyzing a versatile potential of the game activity phenomenon for the employment in the educational aims in general and for the foreign language teaching in particular. The potential is presented in a classified way. The issues of the game technologies employment are also considered from the point of view of various age categories of schoolchildren as language learners, different teaching aims and tasks. In this context an emphasis is made on the peculiarities of the game technologies employment in teaching junior school children to foreign languages.