Interactive Methods In Developing Young Learners’ Speaking Skills

Teaching young learners is always a challenge and requires new sophisticated approaches and solutions in terms of developing speaking skills. The article aims to analyse the ways interactive technologies influence motivation and encourage young learners to speak fluently. To achieve it, emotional and psychological difficulties students experience are to be taken into consideration. In this respect, IM are vital and need further development to be applied in educational process. To boost students’ speaking skills, to help them overcome psychological barrier a new pattern of teaching-learning process needs to be worked out. The article presents the developed and implemented an interactive activity-based model of speaking practice. For the experimental base of the study two groups of 20 young learners aged 8-10 participated in the experiment. The article describes the results of the experimental study and one of the lesson patterns that was developed by the authors. IM proved to be a very efficient motivating tool to acquire speaking skills in a more student friendly educational environment. The results of the study may be useful for teachers and tutors working with this age group. To achieve success in teaching-learning process a special lesson pattern should be developed. The interactive method-based teaching pattern, suggested in the article, increased young learners’ motivation, broadened their horizon, helped to create comfortable educational environment and resulted in their ability to work independently and think critically.