TEACHING ENGLISH AS THE SECOND FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article deals with the investigation of some questions concerning the process of teaching English as the second foreign language based on the first language – the German language. The process under study is rather complicated. It requires taking into consideration the linguistic experience of students. In addition, this process should be based on the results of the comparative-contrastive analysis of the contacting languages: English, German and Russian (the Mother Tongue of the students). This phenomenon may be called an educational forming multilinguism of which interference and transference are characteristic features. In order to overcome the latter and to improve the educational process, comparative study of language phenomena is necessary. Having found out similar and dissimilar features in both languages the teacher will be able to optimize the learning process of the second language.