Assimilation of new knowledge in the process of teaching a foreign language based on pragma-didactic training

Abstract

Today, the modern system of teaching foreign languages in Azerbaijan is characterized by the fact that language skills have become an urgent need for wide sections of society and create favorable conditions for the development of communication skills. The variety of new teaching methods and tools in higher education institutions imposes new requirements on the professional training of foreign language teachers, so it is considered necessary to create a possible methodical system for being able to act consciously in accordance with new technologies. In the educational process, communicative competence is already applied, which forms communication. One of the components forming this communicative competence - pragmatic didactic training - has become a modern research area of foreign language teaching methodology based on the theory and method of teaching intercultural communication. At the intersection of pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and foreign language teaching methods, pragmatic didactic training is defined as a new direction in technological methodology. In this paper we discuss the most relevant elements of foreign language teaching from a pragmatic-didactic perspective, pointing out challenges and/or opportunities in the context of Azerbaijan. We found that the purpose of pragmatic didactic training is to study the problems of communicative competence-based teaching, which allows students to adequately participate in real intercultural communication depending on the communication conditions (formal and informal). A foreign language learned with new learning technology allows future linguists to participate in real intercultural communication in various situations, a necessary aspect for the successful functioning of students.

Keywords:

Intercultural communication, Communicative activity, Language skills, Sociocultural competence, Pragmatic aspect.