CASE STUDY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AS AN INTERACTIVE METHOD OF FORMING COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS

Abstract

The article under research deals with features and importance of case-study method as interactive method to form communicative skills of the students. The article discusses the role of case studies in language teaching process, characteristic features, types, structure and technologies.

The aim of the research study is to analyze the features of case-study and to recommend it to use as the interactive method that form communicative skills of students. In the given article, the authors tried to define a case study, to give the basic classification types, the main features, stages, a number of practical recommendations relevant to do cases, competences to be developed in case study method, general technologies of using a case in the classroom, advantages and disadvantages in organizing a case at classes, and sample case tasks to apply in teaching process.

The research methods are descriptive, comparative, analytical and pragmatic analysis. The research methodology is analytical research review of existed ideas on the described topic, and personal viewpoints as the specialist in the given field. The article is fully practical concerns on the essence and important features in organizing case studies in English teaching process. With the help of comparison and contrast the technologies, pros and cons of case study were defined and suggested.

As the scientific novelty and practical results of the research work there were developed five samples of case study tasks to use in English teaching classes. As the conclusions of the research article we confirm that case-study is effective tool to develop students’ communicative skills as it is an active discussion and interaction where students can develop speaking, discussion, critical thinking, and critical reflection based on real life situations.