Structure of an exercise

Mastering language material for its further use in any language activity requires performing exercises. Exercises are purposeful interdependent operations performed in the sequence of increasing language and operational difficulty. The succession of speech habit and skill formation is to be taken into account, as well as the character of real-life speech acts.

Prof. Salistradefines an exercise as a purposeful, specifically organised reiteration of operations aimed at mastering these operations, at improving their performance technique. Salistra points out three main phases in the structure of an exercise:

1) the phase of receiving the instruction;

2) the phase of following the instruction with or without the model and its fulfilment (performance);

3) the phase of controlling or self-controlling its correct fulfilment (monitoring).