Socio-psychological analysis of methods of adults' teaching foreign language and their influence upon success of foreign language acquisition

This article gives a socio-psychological analysis of methods and technologies of teaching foreign languages. The author underlines that the combination of methods and their alternation allow holding the attention of learners, making them take the interest of contents, stimulating their creative potential in order to acquire a foreign language. The choice of methods depends on group composition, learners' needs, interests, group dynamics. Self-learning strategies and self-assessment are valuable resources, which are taught in the classroom and which permit to pursue the lifetime learning.