FORMING LEARNER’S AUTONOMY BY MEANS OF TEACHER’S ROLES DELEGATION

The article deals with the peculiarities of forming learner’s autonomy by means of teacher’s roles delegation to students. The communicative, reflective, activity-organizational cognitive-axiological structural elements of roles’ delegation are characterized by the authors of the article. The relevancy of application of teacher’s roles delegation to students is proved by the necessity of building skills of autonomous life-long foreign language education as a basic capacity of successful personal and professional development. The aim of the paper is to justify the expediency of teacher’s roles delegation to students in order to develop learner’s autonomy and the description of wide spectrum of roles and functions which may be delegated. Necessary preconditions for successful implementation of delegated powers have been identified. Considerable attention is paid to the description of a wide range of functions and tasks that can be delegated to students in various spheres of class life. The authors carefully describe the roles of class-manager, instruction content developer, time-manager and time-keeper, tool-manager, instruction-assistant, assessment-assistant. The range of the roles described can be prolonged by the functions of class press-secretary, class blogger, class designer, public opinion researcher etc. The process of teacher’s roles delegation to students not only engages them to active leaning but develops their organizational skills, skills of time-management, short-term and long-term planning, objectivity and assessment skills. In addition, the systematic and alternate performance of various class functions by students promotes the development of cooperative tolerance, team cohesion, empathy in the student body. The prospects for the study of this issue is in the development of methods for delegating the teacher’s roles within a single lesson, as well as studying the specifics of this phenomenon in accordance with the age characteristics of students.