DISCUSSION AS AN EFFICIENT TOOL TO FORM THE LEARNERS’ FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AND THEIR COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The subject of this paper is consideration of methodics, communicative and informative resources, inherent in a discussion as a form of training activities in the process of communicative competence formation under foreign language teaching, supported by the innovative technology of educational cooperation. The authors analyze essential features of a discussion-based form of communication, its varieties based on different criteria, features and targeting of a discussion, its merits and advantages over traditional methods of the foreign language teaching, and also description of discussion from the point of view of methods and psychology of language teaching. In concrete terms, the use of educational discussion at a foreign language lesson significantly contributes to the development of significant communication skills and abilities, which include performing a communicative act, convincing argumentation and defense of the speaker’s own position, adequate perception of the interlocutor’s speech, ability to concisely and essentially express thoughts in a studied foreign language.