Review of art-pedagogical practices in the context of integrative methods of teaching of foreign languages

Abstract

Technologies of integrated teaching of a foreign language using art-pedagogical techniques involve subject-language interaction, interdisciplinary connections and meta-subject (universal) activities. The article presents the analysis and experience of using art-pedagogical and digital practices in foreign language lessons (English and German) as integrative learning strategies, successfully implementing connections between different areas of humanitarian knowledge and art activities. The art style of modern foreign language teaching involves Content and Language Integrated Learning and interaction of various subjects, techniques and approaches world artistic and applied culture in mastering vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation and speech activity. Sometimes a foreign language lesson can be taught in tandem by several teachers (literature, music, technology, theater directing). Art-pedagogical techniques enrich the didactics of teaching foreign languages with new methods, forms and techniques — students master new speech structures and a new discourse of verbal behavior: observation, description, interpretation, inference, literary and artistic and applied creativity. The art-pedagogical lesson content enhances efficiency of foreign language teaching through the acquisition of knowledge and skills by students in practical activities. Now teachers eagerly use modern art-pedagogical techniques and art-digital tools: theatrical and gaming activities, literary, artistic and applied audio/video content, minibooking, origami, digital art design. The integration of educational areas forms the cognitive interest of students, allows for the systematization of knowledge, promotes the development of attention, imagination, memory, thinking, and forms the behavioral, psychomotor, socio-communicative and moral traits of the student’s personality.