THE FORMATION OF LINGUISTICALLY GIFTED SCHOOL STUDENTS’ HUMANITARIAN CULTURE IN THE MODERN SYSTEM OF ADDITIONAL FOREIGN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION: THE RESULTS OF THE SKILLED AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK

One of the main objectives of the modern education is the up-brining of a person who is characterized by the versatile creative activity, strong humanistic beliefs, the ability to carry out an exit out of the limits of the standard activity. In this regard the big relevance is acquired by the humanitarian approach in the school education promoting familiarizing the school students with culture.

The methodological basis of the research is connected with the ideas and principles of the formation of linguistically gifted school students’ humanitarian culture (HC) in the system of additional foreign-language education (AFLE). The important part is also assigned to the methods of the system analysis, mathematical and evident modeling, the experimental and statistical methods in the course of carrying out the skilled and experimental work directed to the formation of HC in this category of the pupils.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the results of the skilled and experimental work which helped to draw us a further conclusion that the technology of the formation of linguistically gifted school students’ HC suggested by us in the course of teaching them a foreign language (FL) and the developed technologies are effective.

The results of the research have novelty and are almost significant as they can form a basis for the optimization of the structure of the contents of teaching a FL, for the effective organization of the process of teaching this subject in the system of AFLE. It is also necessary for the identification and assessment of the level of the formation of linguistically gifted school students’ HC. During the skilled and experimental work the basic ideas of the hypothesis were confirmed which proved that it is reasonable to form linguistically gifted school students’ HC on the cultural material of the countries of the target language.

The specific features of teaching linguistically gifted pupils are presented in the article. They are the following:
1. The intensive studying of the language material (the pupils learned the school program in 12 months).
2. The introduction of a new additional training material stage-by-stage (during the academic year the pupils studied 7 new subjects in vocabulary and 9 subjects in grammar at the practical classes of a FL).
3. Ensuring the students’ steady grammatical skills (the school students did more grammar exercises which the teacher selected for them not only from the main textbook, but also from other manuals).
4. The formation of linguistically gifted school students’ independent skills of learning a FL (the pupils showed their independent skills actively in studying oral subjects).

The results of the research have novelty and are almost significant as they can form a basis for the optimization of the structure of the contents of teaching a FL, for the effective organization of the process of teaching this subject in the system of AFLE. During the skilled and experimental work the basic ideas of the hypothesis were confirmed which proved that it is reasonable to form linguistically gifted school students’ HC on the cultural material of the countries of the target language.

The real research has a universal character – it can become the platform for the similar kinds of the research in the conditions of teaching in other humanitarian and natural-science disciplines at the secondary school and the university.