BASIC METHODS OF MOTIVATING STUDENTS OF NON-LINGUISTIC SPECIALTIES WHEN TEACHING ENGLISH IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

The article introduces various ways to shape students’ motivation in the process of teaching a foreign language for non-linguistic specialties at higher education establishments. Various methods have been proposed to increase students’ educational motivation: country studies material, videos, extracurricular activities, and multimedia. Country studies contribute to developing of communication and speaking skills, enriching knowledge about the culture, geography, and history of the country of the studied language. The usage of video material makes classes more interesting, illustrative, and dynamic. The proper organization of extracurricular activities has a great positive impact on the educational process. The active utilization of multimedia presentations, simulators, online platforms, services, applications, and artificial intelligence, encourages the modern process of education to take advantages of the latest technologies. The practical significance of this article is that the authors, the academicians of the Department of Foreign Languages of Kyrgyz -Russian Slavic University, basing on their own experience in teaching a foreign language atthe non-linguistic university, provide practical recommendations to solve the problem of motivation, which may be of interest to teachers at schools and other higher education institutions.