The role of situations in teaching foreign languages

Language is considered to be one of the essential means of communication. We are witnesses of a series of changes taking place in all spheres of people’s life, that is why students should have profound knowledge and advanced level of language skills to speak a foreign language. A lot of scholars consider speaking as one of the key language skills that is of great importance in teaching foreign languages. Nowadays, it is very important to be able to speak English as the most widely used language in the world. Moreover, if graduates are going to get a good job, they should master one or two foreign languages. Teachers of technical universities face the challenging problem how to involve students in the process of speaking. According to Rogova, speaking a foreign language is the most difficult part in language learning because learners need ample practice in speaking to be able to say a few words of their own in connection with a situation