Video as teaching tool for communicative competence formation

Abstract

The article examines and analyzes the usage of audio-visual i.e. video materials in the process of communicative competence formation. Since the aim of foreign language teaching nowadays is often formulated as teaching communication the researchers constantly work on selecting and developing of most efficient ways of its formation. Video is one of the most efficient visual aids. And visual training is training based not on abstract notions and words but on specific images, directly perceived by a student. The more senses are involved at the moment of apprehension the better. Efficient visual aid usage in the training process stipulates not only for being visual content of some particular topic but it should also serve as a source of new knowledge, come forward as means of surrounding world cognition. Such a task is successfully solved by a feature film. As means of visual aid it gives the students country-specific information, psychology and other aspects of life knowledge which broadens the general outlook.