SPECIFICITY AND PROBLEMS OF PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED TEACHING SPEAKING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

Problems of teaching ESL students speaking at the current stage at non-linguistic universities in the Russian Federation are considered in the article. There also exist some certain arising problems that students have to face in the process of both development and activation of speaking skills in a foreign language. Special attention is paid to such psychological problems when teaching speaking a foreign language as: the lack of interest, a rather low level of motivation and self-confidence, feeling of stress, high rate of anxiety, slow reaction in communication. Some approaches, communication strategies used by English teachers for both the development of speaking skills among these students, based on research done into this field, have also been determined. It has been proven that speaking a foreign language is one of the most important types of speech activities in the XXI century of digitalization and communication in foreign languages. The focus is on some approaches, communication strategies, techniques and methods of teaching speaking a foreign language to non-linguistic students, such as: role-play, debate and discussions, panel discussions on specific topics in a foreign language, business games, simulations, flipped classroom, interviews of any kind, live footage of some important events.