Implementation of Hot Potatoes program in the independent work of language major undergraduates

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues and forms of independent work organization of language major undergraduates of higher educational institutions, namely the implementation of the Hot Potatoes program in the educational process within the framework of students’ independent work. The following concepts «selfeducation », «self-regulated learning», «personality-oriented approach», «differentiated approach», «generalpurpose program- shell» are considered. These concepts are reviewed in the context of the continuity of education, as well as a person-oriented program that assumes the capacity for independent learning activities. The authors have presented a concrete successful example of the implementation of the Hot Potatoes program on German Language study as a second foreign language in the independent work of students of the specialty «Foreign Philology (English)», for exemplare, the ability to compose assignments for different linguistic aspects and types of speech activity (vocabulary, grammar, writing); the possibility for students to choose the types of assignments in accordance with their needs; the ability to compile different types of exercises / assignments (JMatch, compliance questions, JMix, sequence recovery, JCloze, filling the gaps, JCross, crossword); the ability to compose tasks of varying degrees of complexity.