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THE IMPORTANCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Qurbonova Nilufar Nasriddinovna
Uzbekistan State World Languages University, Teacher
It is difficult to overestimate the meaning of a foreign language for modern
society as it influences directly all the main life aspects in the development of every
country. Nowadays, to be a highly qualified specialist signifies not only to be
professional in your narrow sphere of knowledge but to master foreign languages as
well. There exist different factors in providing successful foreign language teaching.
One of the most important among them belongs to Psychology. Deep understanding
of various psychological aspects may help teachers to solve many key moments in
their work: to find a proper method of working in every students’ group; to realize the
right approach to students according to their skills and abilities taking into account
complicated age peculiarities; to provide high motivation in foreign language
mastering; to overcome natural problems, so called
–barriers‖ appearing in the
process of language studying. For getting good knowledge of any language, either
foreign or native, everydiv should be acquainted with Psychology
– the discipline
that is closely connected with language teaching.
Pedagogical psychology is closely connected with developmental and age
psychology, which study age dynamics of person’s mental development, ontogenesis
of mental process and psychological quality of developing person. Ontogenesis
refers to the sequence of events involved in the development of an individual
organism from its birth to its death. This developmental history often involves a move
from simplicity to higher complexity. So, all problems of development and age
psychology are considered on the basis of accounting person’s age features.
Pedagogical and age psychology in their researching are based on the theories of
General Psychology, which opens the general psychological laws, studies mental
processes, mental conditions and person’s individual and psychological peculiarities.
Pedagogical psychology became an independent branch at the end of 19th
century when a lot of experiments and achievements in Pedagogy and Psychology
were made. It consists of Educational Psychology, Upbringing Psychology and
Teacher’s Psychology. This field of psychology is often called Educational
Psychology in America.
Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational
settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching,
and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Educational psychology is
concerned with how students learn and develop, often focusing on subgroups such
as gifted children and those who have specific disabilities. To understand deeper
Educational psychology it’s better to examine properly its interrelation with other
disciplines. Organizing the teaching process, a teacher should apply the educational
principle, paying attention to psychological aspects of teaching and adapting the
material and method of teaching to the physical development of learners.
S. Hardjono came to the conclusion that in the organization of the work and
especially in conveying the material a teacher should trade on:
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1) general psychology theory; 2) psychology of developing level age;
3) typology of many psychological development levels; 4) psychology of individual
characteristic.
There are two main aspects in the process of teaching
– teaching and
educating that are closely interconnected. The aim of educating is to develop a
personality of a student. Teaching must give more kno
wledge, improving student’s
skills and abilities. For the successful teaching and educating process a teacher
should understand properly the stage of a student’s developing of both these two
aspects to advance him in his mastering a foreign language.
The next step in the successful process of a language mastering belongs to
students‘attention. For better presenting the material and absorbing it by students as
well a teacher should be acquainted with psychological theory that is connected with
the process of directing attention and process of absorbing the material of a given
lesson. Besides, it’s also very important for every teacher to concentrate students‘
attention. For this purpose, a teacher uses various teaching techniques. Thus, the
use of visual aid at exact time is a great help in this case.
According to my experience that has been carried out, it is possible to conclude
that teaching foreign languages will be more effective if it is based not only on the
basic principles of educational science but on application of the principles of
psychological science as well because every kinds of teaching relates to mental
aspects. The next stage of our work will be connected with the experimental
confirmation of our research.
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ISSN 1877-0428, https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.sbspro.2015.04.744.
