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1.
The development of speech skills.
2.
The acquisition of the language material.
And for both of these aspects the most important are: practice, drill,
exercises. Exercises help both the development of speech skills and the
acquisition of the language material. I.D. Salistra in his work “Очерки методов
обучения иностранным языкам” gives a definition to the exercise: “An exercise is a
purpose-oriented, organized, repetitive performance of an action aimed at mastering
this action and improving the ways of its performance”.
Exercise is one of the indispensable components of the foreign language
teaching process. In works and books on methodology you can come across a
great number of systems and classifications of exercises.
What is an exercise? If we analyse the definition given by Salistra we can
say that:
Each exercise has its objective.
An exercise is a specially organized activity.
The aim of any exercise is perfection of some activity.
To make the action (activity) perfect and automatic it must be repeated
many times.
Each exercise has specific characteristic features. It must have its own
place in the system of exercises and do what it can do, that is it must help
the development of some habit. That is each exercise must be adequate (sufficient,
fully suitable).
Naccob gives the following definition of the adequacy of exercises: “Adequacy
of an exercise is its potential ability to be the most effective means of achieving a
specific purpose. This ability is determined by the specific character and features of
the exercise”.
Example:
“The objective of our today’s class is developing speech skills”
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