(2017) Science and education, 4, 81-86. Odessa.

Olha Bihun,
Doctor of Philology, associate professor, Department of French Philology,
Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University,
57, Shevchenko Str., Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

FRENCH AS A SECOND/THIRD FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT
OF MULTILINGUAL COMPETENCE OF PHILOLOGY STUDENTS

Over the last decades one can observe extensive research on the theory of second or third foreign language teaching. Many works are dedicated to foreign language teaching based on the languages of national groups or teaching two foreign languages through their sequential acquisition or simultaneous learning the languages of the same language group. The aim of the article is to analyse the main methods of teaching a second/third foreign language, to specify their general theoretical and practical value in the processes of the development of multilingual competence of philology students. The factors of second language teaching such as the typological comparison of language phenomena; the phonetic, grammar, lexical, syntactic, semantic, morphological transferences were taken into account. The role of the latest methodical practices, such the Internet as an instrument for the organisation of distance learning was highlighted. The experience of foreign language teaching, in particular French, shows that the process of a second foreign language acquisition is a multiaspectual phenomenon which consists of many interrelated factors: linguistic, psychological, sociological and others. The efficiency of foreign language learning depends on the combination of the following factors: the effectiveness of principal methods of teaching, an adequate assessment of the target audience and its requirements for language acquisition, positive psychological mood, students’ motivation. Multilingual education results in achieving basic multilingual competence that allows to consider both the alternative way of learning the language and the way to get specific knowledge, to join the values of the world culture and to develop social communicative abilities of a personality.

multilingualism, competence, motivation, methods, foreign languages.

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