Stages of teaching students a second foreign language based on cognitive communicative approach
Educators should carefully plan their teaching activities especially when it comes to second foreign language teaching. One of the most common problems many students face when learning a second foreign language is a negative language transfer which arises due to the influence of the native language and the first foreign language. Especially difficult is the overcoming of negative language transfer in the process of studying the prepositions of a second foreign language. In order to help students overcome the emerging negative language transfer under the influence of several languages educators should create a special learning environment that would contribute to creating special learning connections in learners’ minds. We consider the benefits of cognitive communicative approach in relation to the process of overcoming negative language transfer when studying the prepositions of a second foreign language. We propose and describe an algorithm for overcoming negative language transfer which includes the following stages: 1) planning stage; 2) selection of the most suitable methodological content; 3) creation of scaffolded methodic content; 4) scaffolded practice of skills; 5) independent students’ practice; 6) assessment stage.