*2.2.1 Approach to measuring speech skills in a foreign language*

The mechanism of speaking any language is set genetically, and it can not be simply changed. As the outstanding Russian scientist academician Shcherba said "We can banish the native language from textbooks and classes, but we cannot banish it from the student's head" [2]. **Figure 2** shows a simplified diagram of the interaction of speakers of different languages within the same subject area. For example, if the work on a joint project in the IT sphere is carried out by specialists from different countries, their linguistic interaction should be considered not in the field of the entire language space, but only in the part that relates to their professional activities. Similarly, it makes no sense to train refugees for a long time in all the intricacies of a new language, it is necessary to give them the skills of a new profession as soon as possible and to ensure full communication within this subject area.

The main form of communication is the transmission of the necessary meaning through dialogue. The minimum possible fragment of the dialogue (**Figure 3**) is an elementary Question, the simplest Answer and the Delay between them. In case of a conversation between partners speaking different languages an additional delay Δ is inevitably added to the process of their dialogue related to the internal translation of the information received from the language of the question to its presentation in their minds in their native language. The same process occurs in the opposite direction when forming the answer.

Considering the same processes from the point of view of training or rather the formation of language skills in a foreign language, we can safely say that either the teacher or any training system should strive to compensate as quickly as possible for this internal delay Δ → 0. Then the language zone of the new language will be formed in the consciousness of the learner, or in other words the curve of learning a foreign language will reach the point of "spontaneous speaking". That is, the

**Figure 3.**

*Fragment of dialogue between native speakers of different languages.*

construction of the ideal process of learning a foreign language is reduced to the creation of such learning tools guarantee the complete elimination of the delay Δ = 0 in the shortest possible time.

It takes at least 100 hours to master the skill of spontaneous speech. This means that we are not talking about continuous speaking, but about completing 30-minute tasks daily, taking into account interval repetitions twice a day (in the morning and in the evening). Such a schedule should be created by the joint efforts of an adult student and a teacher at least in the first 40 days of the language skills development process. The habit developed during this time will allow the student to reach the level of spontaneous speech, depending on his abilities, after about 3–6 months of continuous training, while making extensive use of the structuralvisual method. Implementing this approach will not disrupt the continuity of learning.
