MODELING METHOD AS AN ELEMENT OF UNIVERSAL EDUCATIONAL ACTIONS (WITH REFERENCE TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING)

Abstract

The article reveals some problems of training students (including foreign language training) from the standpoint of applying the modeling method in the educational process at any level. The basics of modeling or information structuring is revealed, a number of problems facing teachers of contemporary secondary school, the system of secondary special and higher education are described. The possibilities of creating educational models based on direct action and reverse structure are described. The article proves that the modeling method can be used not only to simplify the filing of new educational materials and to demonstrate the connection with the previously studied ones, but for recycling task modeling in order to develop students’ foreign language skills and abilities expanding some subject, inter- and supra-disciplinary links (on the basis of studying the discipline “Foreign Language”). The practical significance of the article is expressed in the proposal to exploit the potential of language tools not only for developing students’ competencies, but also for modeling at a higher level, for example, creating the language environment of the educational institution. Moreover, implementing the method of simulated didactic units by modifying the components of the educational process may be provided in the process of individual’s foreign language development.