Guidelines for designing effective language teaching materials

This article investigates the problem of developing guidelines, manuals for effective teaching aids in teaching a foreign language to students in order to form foreign language communicative competencies. Moreover, the article discusses the requirements that must be observed when creating effective teaching aids. In the example of the educational and methodological manuals, the main principles and parameters that teachers should take into account in the process of writing teaching aids due to the transition to new educational standards. The educational and methodological manuals are the result of productive and systematic work, which requires time, as well as the cooperation of teachers, methodologists, and specialists in the field of information and communication technologies. In the article, the educational and methodological manual is complex, since it offers tasks for practicing and improving all types of speech activity: reading, listening, speaking, and writing.