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saxelmwifo enis swavlebis sakiTxebi:
problemebi da gamowvevebi
Issues of State Language Teaching;
Problems and Challenges
language and culture to the other language, the information on a range of ethno-cultures, language peculiarities
is essential as well.
In order to help each learner, a teacher’s professionalism is to grasp the way of the learner’s thinking, the
former knowledge of the topic as well as his/her subjective logics. Teaching practice approves of having
his/her own experience that should be taken into account in further teaching and learning process.
At the same time the former experience may differ from the teacher’s imagined associations with it. It does
not correspond the teacher’s syllabus, teaching aids and sequence of themes. If a student has acquired his/her
own learning style, (understanding of separate notions and their definitions, a habit of perceiving a word as a
whole unit, skills to put it down, possesses a chain of associations that assists the formation of new notions
based on the previous ones etc.), but if he/she is supposed to do as the teacher expects him to do, cognitive
dissonance appears. It must be taken into account that each student has his/her internalisation in which like
in all psychological processes perception depends on the level of appeal and topicality, that impacts a student’s
action to approve acceptable values and norms(Fishman, 1999; Larsen-Freeman, 2000).
One of problem is insufficient teachers' cooperation for the providing inter-subject link, for promoting the
use of the particular knowledge and skills in real communicative situations. Effective communication requires
paying close attention to what others are saying both verbally and nonverbally and genuinely trying to
see and understand their perspectives, as well as making oneself understood.
The professionalism of teacher is connected with the skill to help a student work with such pedagogical tools
that would stimulate him to learn, using the gained experience in other situations; realize that a pedagogical
process is the tools for every student’s development as a personality. In a multicultural class teacher’s emotional
and psychological sustainability matters greatly in the case of selection a class as a form to organize the
pedagogical process and its management, taking into account the potential of each learner.
The current trends of teaching process cannot ignore the development of ICT and necessity to work with
various information sources. The application of ICT in the teaching classes can facilitate the development of
grammatical competence in different contexts and communicational aspects. The Web serves as a platform for
spoken and written communication in authentic discourse and could be successfully incorporated in language
learning and teaching methodology that would increase students’ interest towards studies and create the possibility
for a positive experience of student’s autonomous learning.
Taking into account the many different problems in the last few years The Latvian Language State Agency
in cooperation with higher education facilities, Ministry of Education and Science and local municipalities has
created a system for further education of teachers and development of methodical and study materials etc. The
general aim of the Latvian Language Agency is to promote and strengthen the status and sustainable development
of the Latvian language – the state language of the Republic of Latvia and an official language of the
European Union as well as to organize courses and seminars for teachers. Teacher’s professionally competence
courses and seminars includes content for development skills to integrate language and different
subjects content, to teach grammar into the use of the language in correlation with the language functions
in the process of communication. It gives enables to understand semiotical values, to learn not only language
but culture heritage through emotional experience.
CONCLUSIONS
� The classes in Latvian language schools are becoming more and more
� linguistically heterogenic. Together with children coming from monolingual families there are
studying both harmonic bilinguals and students who are just gradually becoming strong bilinguals.
Between them there are also asymmetric bilinguals.
� As the results of the research show, the quality of learning process is affected
� by emotional stress which is associated with the student moving to a new cultural environment.
Sometimes teachers are not convinced by the choice of learning/teaching methods or the usefulness of
the work forms in the learning/teaching process, because the experience in pedagogic work is not
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