Innovation in Language Learning

 Implementation of students’ scientific conferences beyond the grid of training sessions as an extracurricular form of educational work, as the ten years’ experience shows, has a great payback relative to social adaptation of students, increases the cohesion of the student collective, forsters individual professional development.

Preparing students to participate in a student scientific and practical conference in foreign language is a complex solution of educational and developmental objectives based on student-centered approach to learning. The students’ presentations made according the rules of oral speech are perceived much better, so when the written paper has been fully completed, the teacher can record his own spontaneous statement on this material. Thus, the student gets an example to follow, a sample of the emotional and evaluative elements composing the communicative framework of oral language form: units providing contact, rhetorical questions, introductory and linking words and sentences, expressive language means.

The teacher’s function during the papers presentation is to let the young researchers feel the power of ideas, the equality of all participants. One of the main achievements is when the obviously facilitated, factitious communication in a foreign language gets transformed in a real scientific discussion. The second task of modeling oral presentation is to allow students to master the art of public speaking in a foreign language. The third task is handling of the ensuing discussion: participants are involved in analyzing; teachers organize the reflecting of the success/failure and encourage students to practical application of the obtained results.