SUBJECTIVAL CHARACHTERISTICS OF AN ADULT BEING STUDENT AT SHORT-TERM LANGUAGE COURSE

Sharavev Vasiliy Alekseyevich

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The article considers a mature student as the object of supplementary education at different establishments which offer language training. Based on Psychology and Linguodidactics researches, it analyses the characteristics of adult that are significant when studying a foreign language during a short-term study course. In order to acquire the knowledge of a foreign language one’s skills have to be trained and practiced regularly. Therefore, the article reminds the general principles of requiring a foreign language. Knowing the revealed peculiarities lets us form a clear understanding of who a mature student is, considering her both as a subject of study process in a whole and a subject of a foreign language learner in particular.

Keywords: mature student, intensive learning, short-term course, supplementary education of adults, further self-development

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Issue: 6, 2016

Series of issue: Issue 6

Rubric: TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Pages: 128 — 131

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