Features of students ‘ activities in small groups of cooperation at the middle stage of foreign language training

Kovaleva Tatayna Anatolyevna, Karaseva Arina Aleksandrovna

The article is devoted to the features of the educational activities of students in small groups of cooperation at the middle stage of teaching a foreign language. The relevance of the use of group communication technologies in the educational activities of students in teaching a foreign language at the middle stage of education from the point of view of the age-psychological characteristics of adolescent students is substantiated. The essential characteristics of the group form of work in educational activity and its advantages are disclosed. Some examples of the use of technology of small groups of cooperation at the intermediate level of teaching students a foreign language are presented. It is concluded that training in small groups of cooperation is an effective condition for the development of students' foreign language communicative competence.

Keywords:training, foreign language, small groups, cooperation, middle stage of training.