Teaching English to Low Proficiency Students

Abstract

This article examines the problem of teaching students with a low level of a foreign (English) language at a non-linguistic university. The root causes of problems arising in the learning process, including from the point of view of psychology, are considered. The article also presents the results of a survey of subjects about the teaching methods that were applied to them, then certain teaching methods used to solve problems that arose during training, and conclusions regarding the situation with teaching English in a non-linguistic university. The descriptions of the methods follow from a carefully conducted analysis of the test subjects’ responses. The article also contains diagrams that clearly illustrate the results of the research, along with comments on each diagram presented.