Psychological features of teaching a foreign language to students of economic universities

Nabiruhina Anna Vadimovna, Kubacheva Kabiyat Ibragimovna, Gul Natalya Vladimirovna

This article considers the psychological characteristics of teaching foreign languages to students of economic universities belonging to different psychotypes: extroverts, introverts and ambiverts. Целью нашего исследования было изучение того, как психологические особенности студентов, такие как способности, темперамент, характер и чувства влияют на качество усвоения и приобретения знаний, формирование умений и навыков при изучении иностранных языков. The goal of our research was to study the impact of students’ psychological characteristics such as abilities, temperament, character and feelings on the quality of assimilation and acquisition of knowledge, the formation of skills and abilities in learning foreign languages. During our study we used various forms of training such as individual, group, frontal, collective, paired, classroom and extracurricular ones. The authors point out that it is necessary to take into account these features when organizing online teaching in e-learning environment of the economic university, which allows to master educational programs remotely, regardless of the time and location of students. As a result of the research, the authors came to the conclusion that the effectiveness of teaching foreign languages for these psychotypes depends both on the forms of training and on the cognitive abilities of students, which affect the process of mastering the educational material when learning foreign languages. Consequently, taking into account the psychological characteristics of students enables the teacher to use them effectively in the process of teaching foreign languages in economic universities.

Keywords:psychological characteristics, training of psychotypes (introverts, extroverts and ambiverts), forms and methods of teaching foreign languages, online training.