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The paper covers the opportunities of active learning aimed to enhance the efficiency of foreign language teaching in a non-linguistic university. The study introduces the data analysis based on the statistics survey of several academic groups of 1–2 year students of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and investigates psychological barriers which these students might experience. According to the research certain psychological barriers that hinder foreign language communication still arise, which could be listed as the following: self-consciousness and closed mind, fear of vocabulary and syntax, sudden demand for speaking, fear of failure, short-term memory and some gender restrains. These psychological problems are described in the paper and special innovative interactive teaching techniques and methods such as Silent Reflection, Pyramiding, Brainstorms, Aquarium and the like are proposed to mitigate the second language acquisition and help 1–2 year students overcome the mentioned barriers. The authors emphasize the role of a teacher as a consultant in the classroom management process, the peculiarities of psychological environment and classroom interaction in the process of studying, the importance of tolerant attitude to mistakes and special ways of error correction and the necessity of learner-centered approach implementation in foreign language teaching.
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Ivanova, P., Burakova, D., Tokareva, E. (2020). Effective Teaching Techniques for Engineering Students to Mitigate the Second Language Acquisition. In: Anikina, Z. (eds) Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives. IEEHGIP 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47415-7_16
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