EFFECTIVE APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES TO TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO MULTILEVEL GROUPS

Abstract

The scope of the following article’s research is teaching foreign languages to multilevel groups. Nowadays more and more educational institutions have to implement the said approach due to a wide range of reasons, such as lack of funding or excess of students, caused by migration etc. The article aims to analyse the phenomena of teaching as well as studying foreign languages in heterogeneous groups. The author sees into the existing definitions of a heterogeneous groups, followed by the causes of the following teaching approach, its strong and weak points. The most common problems for teachers and students which of multilevel groups are cited along with the ways to overcome them. The author gives special conditions to the methods and strategies of teaching heterogeneous group, as well as assessment and grading approaches. Thereafter the author comes to conclusion that despite certain difficulties in working with multilevel groups with a holistic approach of educational institution to adapting the course program materials to needs of the students with different levels of foreign language fluency, teaching and learning in heterogeneous group can be effective.