USAGE OF PERSONALITY-ACTIVITY APPROACH IN TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO STUDENTS OF NON-LANGUAGE FACULTIES

The aim of the article is to consider the problem of organization the foreign language teaching process with the students of non-language faculties of Dagestan State Pedagogical University from the perspective of unity the personal and activity parts of the pedagogical process as a psychological basis that determine an individual vector of the language and personal development.

Methods. Analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, supervision, discussion. Result. The research shows that choice of the information, aim, forms, content and means of teaching, organization of foreign language teaching process should be focusing on the student’s psyche, thinking, personal qualities and activity characteristics development.

Conclusion. The scope and content of the course on foreign language for the students of non-language faculties should be planning discriminatingly depending on the reference level and based on unity of external and internal motives, usage of additional manual and information and communication technologies (ICT), strengthening of the students’ self-control for the results of their own educational activity.

personal development, personality-activity approach, system of motives, self-actualization, professional development, vector of individual development, model of the educational process, psychological basis, thinking, active search, self-control

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