A GAME AS A METHOD OF LANGUAGE TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

The article investigates the game as a method of language teaching in a higher education institution. It is established that one of the dynamic methods that encourages mutual active activity, is based on the development of various forms of thinking, contributes to the gradual development of creative abilities, and the establishment of high social and adaptive capabilities of the individual is the game. The scientific investigation used the descriptive method, the method of pedagogical observation, which was organized during the educational process in language classes. It was observed that the formation of communicative competence, which includes speech, language and sociocultural competence, can be effectively carried out by means of game activity, since it is games, which are naturally entertainment and recreation, that enable the relaxed pragmatic assimilation of various communicative and social experiences and emotional satisfaction from the complex learning process, and thus contribute to the successful acquisition of the language. It has been established that the game method has many advantages, including versatility, motivation, purposeful use of language, student orientation, emotional positive satisfaction, low stress level, and efficiency. The most popular games used in the study of language disciplines include dating, charades, bingo, drawing, matching games, directing, word substitution, diary keeping, and role-playing. It has been proven that the use of games in language learning contributes to the implementation of the following important methodological tasks: develops the psychological readiness of applicants for native professional and foreign language communication; provides the natural need for repeated repetition and consolidation of language material; trains the occasional choice of the desired language stamp or cliché, which is a model of a future spontaneous communication situation. It is explained that the prospects for further scientific research are the study and comments of other game exercises that will be useful for learning any language.