Филологические науки\

5.Методы и приемы контроля уровня владения иностранным языком.

 

К.филол.н., доцент МИТИНА Е.М.

Одесский государственный университет внутренних дел

 

USING of INTERNET TECHNOLOGY IN STUDENTS TEACHING of FOREIGN LANGUAGES

 

An important feature of present society development is expanding process of informatization. The global Internet, today, is the undisputed leader among  telecommunication technologies. The result of social and economic reforms become the increased level of foreign languages skills. Practical language skills are the most important characteristics of any professional profile. Order of modern society for formation of communicative and intercultural competence of students involves, above all, providing motivational training.

One of illustrations of rapid introduction of information technologies into the life of worldwide network -Internet which is characterized by unprecedented in the history of communications technology growth. The prototype of Internet is computer network Arpanet, was created in 1969 commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense to link computers in all the centers of missile defense, which provided military superiority over the Soviet Union on military technology. The Internet is relatively "young" invention, however, the principles for creating web, defined the direction of development for decades to come. The main requirements for this system: universality (possibility of combining disparate computer), reliability (preservation performance, even in violation of relationship between its various parts), flexibility (adding and removing nodes must occur with minimal costs). The global computer network, born of military and blessed by Vatican, and quickly proved to be active in all spheres of human activity, including foreign and national education systems.

Modern computer technology is an integral part of multimedia technologies. They are regarded as information technology courses that integrate audio-visual information of any form (text, graphics, animation, etc.). Due to these achievements an interactive dialogue with system is implemented, and there are various forms of independent activity of collecting and processing information.

Educational technology is system of methods and tools aimed at guarantee achievement of deductive aims, development of student’s personality, on formation of his\her intellectual, behavioral and occupational status.

The following steps are allocated in technological approach of teaching students: to set goals, their maximum refinement and formulation with a focus on results; preparation of training materials and direction of entire course of study in accordance with educational objectives; assessment of current results, correction of training, main requirement of which is to achieve their goals; final evaluation of  results.

Technology of training - is a sequence of (not necessarily strictly ordered) procedures and operations, which represent a coherent didactic system,  implementation of which in educational practice leads to  achievement of guaranteed aims of education and training.

There are several main areas of application of new information technologies in teaching and education management (A.Andreev, V.Baikov, E. Karelova, E. Polat  and others):

- Implementation of various forms of learning: individual, collective, autonomous, distance;

- Using of computer telecommunications in education;

- Training of  professional use of information technology in education management;

- using of information technology in educational research.

With Internet the possibility of using computers in teaching of foreign language is unusually wide. Training materials based on multimedia hypertext technology have several advantages, first of all - it's new facilities  of educational material presentation related with using of visual and auditory clarity.

Pictorial and graphical tools for conditional visibility (tables, diagrams, drawings, graphs, charts, audio-visual aids, etc.) that are the main blocks of print and electronic educational materials play an important role in intellectual cognitive activity of students. From the visibility, clarity, sense of completeness and other useful properties of material depends on theoretical perception of educational information, understanding of it, learning and consolidation of knowledge. Tools of modern information technologies improve the quality of visual information, it becomes brighter, more colorful, more dynamic.

The advantage of using Internet is accessible to a large number of authentic information in foreign language. Materials, taken from original sources, are characterized by the naturalness of lexical content and grammatical forms of situational appropriateness of language used, illustrates the usage of authentic cases which, although not specifically designed for educational purposes, but may be used in teaching foreign languages.

Innovation processes are patterns in development of modern education. These educational research shows that many scientists working in this direction (A.Andreev, M. Clarin, E.Polat, A. Uvarov), paying particular attention to the need for new forms, methods and tools that cause activation of cognitive activity of students. One of these solutions was the development of project activities concept using Internet as an innovative educational platform of information and communication technologies.

Methods of teaching turn into learning process technology, where, in addition to traditional subjects of the educational process (teachers, students, academic staff), there is a didactic and information medium.

Self-organization (individual, group) of students using Internet involves the using of new teaching technologies that encourage the disclosure of internal resources of each student and at the same time contributing to  formation of social personality traits.

Main aim of learning of foreign language in high school is communicative - formation of communicative competence. It is the ability to extract sufficient information when reading foreign language texts, the ability to correctly understand the interlocutor to express his\her thoughts, views, orally and in writing. The communicative orientation of language learning is provided both by material, method of working with it and form of its organization. One of them is a didactic virtual medium, on the base of which an effective educational process emerges. Educational aim is to improve the linguistic knowledge, skills, abilities, ability to cross-cultural interaction of students, and this is base of Internet functioning.

 

Литература

WHITE, C. (2006) "Distance learning of foreign languages", Language Teaching 39, 4: 247-264.

WINDEATT, S.- HARDISTY, D.- EASTMENT, D. (2000) The Internet (Resource Books for Teachers). Oxford: Oxford University Press.