Abstract:

The article deals with the humanistic approach, which in contrast to the traditional approach is based on the subject-subject relations between teachers and students, the emphasis is on the individual work of students in small groups, where a weak learner can ask stronger learners if something is not clear. In such groups students learn together and help each other.

Cooperative learning in small groups is presented in the article.

The basic principles of pedagogy on which the technologies of cooperation are based are given.

The article highlights different variants for cooperative learning, i.e. Student Team Learning, Student-Teams-Achievement Divisions, Teams-Games-Tournament, Team Assisted Individualization, Jigsaw, Learning Together, etc.

The article gives examples of teaching a foreign language at a university on the basis of the cooperative learning method and gives its different variants of an active usage.

Cooperative learning and continuous interaction with a teacher and the teamwork with the students in teaching a foreign language, which occurs mainly in small groups, brings positive results, allows students to express their opinions, develops oral communication skills in the language that is learning, increases the activity of students.

Keywords:

Humanistic approach, subject-subject relations, cooperation, interaction, communication, cooperative learning.