Information and communication technologies in teaching schoolchildren foreign-language monologue speech. Part 2

The problem for the research. Foreign-language speaking plays an important role in achieving the goals of school teaching foreign languages and establishing international contacts between Russian schoolchildren and their foreign peers. However, students’ oral speech speaking skills, in particular, in the field of monologue speech, are not sufficiently developed. The above sets the task for teachers to find means to increase the effectiveness of teaching schoolchildren foreign-language monologue speech. One of the means is information and communication technologies. Methods of investigation. Experimental work on teaching schoolchildren the monological form of speaking, using information and communication technologies, is carried out on the basis of secondary school no. 37 in Kirov, Russian Federation (52 sixth graders, 21 foreign language teachers). Complexes of exercises, aimed at developing the skills of oral monologue speech, using information and communication technologies; criteria and levels of evaluation of such skills are developed. The findings of the study. At the end of the creative experiment, the indicators of proficiency in the monological form of speaking increased in 52% of experimental students and only 41% of control group students. With the help of statistical G-criterion of signs a significant shift in indicators was recorded in the experimental group of schoolchildren (Gemp. = 0; p < 0,05). Conclusion. The purpose of the study is achieved: the theoretical foundation and approbation of a set of exercises for teaching secondary school students foreign-language monologue speech, using information and communication technologies, is presented. It is proved that doing the exercises increases the level of students’ proficiency in a monological form of speaking, contributes to the formation of their universal educational actions. The text of the 2nd part of the article contains the sections: “Research results”, “Discussion”, “Conclusions”.