Intensification of the Process of Learning German as a Second Foreign Language at Military University(Basic Course)
The article deals with the methods of intensifying the process of teaching a second foreign language at a military university at the initial stage. The purpose of this paper is to review the organization of the entire educational process of learning German as a second foreign language, the content of educational material and methods of its introduction. The article is based on the hypothesis that the process of teaching German as a second foreign language will be carried out more effectively if it uses elements of the silent method, binary pedagogical cues, visualization of educational material, as well as altera lingua means when reading professional texts of a small size. The methods used in the process of intensification of the educational process include: a method for analyzing and evaluating test results; comparative method; trilingual method; communicative method based on the correct distribution of study time taking into account the cadet's linguistic experience. The intensification of the learning process is based on the principle of similarity of languages and psycholinguistic patterns in the study of a second foreign language. The achieved learning outcomes were identified on the basis of an experiment on skim reading of professional texts, which showed that, despite the shorter period of learning German, the amount of material read, the time spent on reading and the quality of understanding were comparable, confirming the positive effect of using a complex methodology.