DEVELOPING TEAMWORK SKILLS IN BILINGUAL STUDENTS

Abstract

The article reveals a problem of developing teamwork skills among bilingual students. Team interaction skills are fundamental factors for the success of a future teacher’s professional activity, which need to be given special attention during the five years of study at a university. The teamwork skills acquired during student training should be passed on to future students. These skills include the ability to collaborate and distribute roles to achieve a common goal, the ability to listen to your colleagues and at the same time express your opinion, build strategies, show initiative and creativity. The existing characteristics of a bilingual personality and cultural differences among students make communication between team members difficult. The results of the diagnostics of changes in the personality traits of bilingual students in different courses, as well as the degree of motivation and readiness to work in a team, confirm the need to create an approximate program of activities for the development of teamwork skills. The selected methods and techniques (game exercises in English and Chinese classes, interactive didactic games, quizzes, business and role-playing games, brainstorming) can effectively contribute to the development of teamwork skills of bilingual students who speak Yakut and Russian languages.