Child-centered approach in teaching students a foreign language

Abstract

The article reveals the features of a child-centered approach in teaching students in foreign language lessons. It is stressed in the article that in modern Ukrainian society, a contradiction arises between the growing level of requirements for a modern person, the conditions of life in society, and the level of socio-psychological and practical readiness of a school graduate lagging behind these requirements. These contradictions manifest themselves both within the framework of the entire system of school education and in relation to the teaching of each academic subject. Since the subject "foreign language" is compulsory in the system of Ukrainian school education, many of the contradictions and problems listed above apply to it as well. The orientation of the entire system of school education towards creating conditions for the formation of a free, developed and cultured personality, able to live in a constantly changing world and change it, requires a change in the general approaches, goals, content and methods of teaching each academic subject, including foreign languages.