PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIER OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article examines the psychological barrier as the main reason for the difficulty in learning a foreign language in non – linguistic specialties in a higher educational institution.The most important competence which the future specialist must possess when studying in an university is the formation of a strategy for overcoming this psychological barrier. Overcoming psychological barriers involves the work of students themselves, connected with the creation by the teacher of conditions conducive to the formation of students' non – linguistic specialties of the university value attitude to the subject being studied. The given article describes the psychological barrier functions that play an important part in educational process and how to overcome them, which can help students develop value attitude to a foreign language. The student's progress in learning depends on his attitude towards learning, on the motivation that underlies the learning activity. The competent teacher can use in the classroom various technologies and methods to overcome the psychological barriers described in this article.