On the Issue of Using the Project Method as a Kind of Independent Work in Teaching English in High School

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of the problem of integrating the project method into the process of teaching English to high school students on the basis of the educational-methodological complex «Spotlight». The relevance of the work is due to the modern requirements of the Federal state educational standard, focused on the formation of an active, independent and proactive position of students in the process of mastering a foreign language. Modern schools strive to create conditions for the development of research and reflective skills and abilities of students, actively implementing interactive teaching technologies in the educational process. The incorporation of active teaching methods and forms of teaching into the system of teaching foreign languages, which include the project method, contributes to the formation of students' competencies that are directly interconnected with the experience of application in practical activities and with knowledge of a foreign language as a communicative tool for further modern processes of globalization. The effectiveness of the formation of foreign language communicative competence of students is achieved using project technology, first of all, through independently planned activities, which students are interested in.