VISUALIZATION AS A MEANS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article examines the contents of concepts of “visualization”, “visualization tools”, considers various visualization tools that are advisable to use in foreign language classes, namely: infographics, multimedia presentation, mental maps, comics, interactive simulators, cause-and-effect diagram, denotation graph, word clouds, cluster, INSERT, etc. It is concluded that the use of visualization tools in teaching foreign languages activates thought processes, increases the efficiency of the learning process and motivation of students, being a useful tool, increasing learning motivation and the speed of knowledge, skills and abilities formation. The authors conclude that when learning a foreign language, visualization provides students with educational linguistic and extralinguistic material in a convenient, understandable and accessible form, acting as a means of cognition of foreign language realities and facts and activating the natural capabilities of schoolchildren to multichannel perception.