TECHNIQUES FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ CREATIVE POTENTIAL IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES AT A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The article attempts to consider the nature of creativity, an important aspect of which is the creative component of the personality of both a teacher and a student studying a foreign language in a non-linguistic university. Modern education does not only imply the transfer of knowledge, but it also provides comprehensive development of students. A foreign language makes it possible to pay sufficient attention to the acquisition of foreign-language professional competence and the identification of creative potential, while concurrently supporting students’ desire for self-expression. Despite the different approaches to creativity as an important element of a teacher’s activity, researchers agree on the point that a teacher who is able to go beyond the customary framework, allows students to independently search for a solution to a creative task, critically comprehend the acquired information in a new way and master the knowledge. The author of the article is examining the principles on which the development of students’ creative abilities in institutions of higher education is based and holds forth some techniques that activate creative thinking, imagination, reflection. The proposed techniques seem to be a fairly effective tool for working out educational material: updating vocabulary and grammar, mastering the rules of stylistics and word formation, clarifying knowledge in the field of future professional expertise