2013-№1(38) Article 2

S.A. Lamzin

The concepts of potential worlds and teaching foreign languages р. 10–21

UDC 81 (07)

The article addresses various concepts of potential worlds. Such concepts may serve as the research (methodological) basis in language teaching that will incorporate imagination development, superconsciousness, and creation of various potential worlds. This trend in FLT theory can affiliate with the novel research field of multi–vector linguodidactics, or multi–vector glossodidactics.

potential worlds, virtual reality, consciousness, super consciousness, science fiction, imagination, creative thinking.

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