THE PECULIARITIES OF TEACHING SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN CLASSES IN MIDDLE SCHOOL

Abstract

With the intensive growth of globalization processes in today’s society improving the efficiency of foreign language teaching methods and techniques, acquisition of basic knowledge of foreign languages already from school onwards, takes a special place in the education system. For Armenian schools, this primarily concerns the two most widely spoken languages, Russian and English, which fluency is one of the basic requirements for employment in many areas of human activity in modern society. Foreign language learning involves many components, and one of the basic concepts in any language is the noun, its number, gender and case. The particularities of teaching one of the grammatical features of a noun, the singular and the plural in English and Russian in Armenian schools are examined in this article. The methods used in English and Russian language textbooks of Armenian schools were reviewed; difficulties that middle and high school students may encounter in learning the plural of a noun were identified; specific didactic materials were proposed which, in our opinion, will help to increase the efficiency of the process of mastering in the mentioned grammatical material in Armenian middle schools by systematizing the main rules of formation of plural in Russian and English with the help of vivid pictures and tables.

Key words: foreign language, foreign language teaching, noun, plural and singular forms, plural, methods of teaching, didactic material, systematizing of learning process