CONTEMPORARY MULTIFUNCTIONAL TV STUDIO ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE

Multifunctional TV studio assisted language learning is based on an empirical study that examined students' perceptions of how they develop their language-specific skills. TV contests, documentaries, educational and cognitive TV programs, TV games with the students' participation serve as the teaching tool in a cooperative, creative, learner-centered environment where every participant of TV process can succeed and gain more confidence in speaking with foreigners. TV language practice, feedback and reflection aid students in improving, transforming and their speaking. They include creative work not only in front of the professional camera but mobile devices, empower students by giving them access to a wide range of web-based tools that allow them to publish work and engage with live audiences in real contexts. The telecommunication project is considered as a mutual educational, collaborative, creative activity of partner students organized based on computer and television telecommunication, having a common goal, the coordinated kinds of action and directed to the achievement of the general result. More than 1000 students from various secondary schools of Russia were involved in experiment training. They worked on the air in four educational TV projects: Jumanji Land, 4TEEN, Linguistic Planet, Virtual School. Every TV project offers the fascinating video based on a cognitive technique of training in foreign languages for students. Each level of a video course consists of eight documentary and artistic plots. Documentary plots intersperse with directions. Commentaries are shot more than ordinarily and are perceived with interest by TV audience. Students learn to listen to the children's and adult's speech, the speech of native speakers of English and German, and the speech of foreigners with various emphases and on different dialects. According to the investigation, foreign language learning and teaching through the multifunctional TV studio can provide better access to language for their learners and bring variety and flexibility, energy and motivation to the language classroom by extending the range of teaching techniques and resources. It helps participants (future TV presenters, actors, TV journalists, public figures) to develop all four communicative skills and liquidate the language barrier. Educational, developmental and educational space TV studio is just the motivational impetus for the personality formation, which is confirmed by practical results. Recommendations for practice are offered.