Sydorenko I.

National Technical University of Ukraine

“Kyiv Politechnic Institute”, Ukraine

Modern English teaching methods in the system of

higher education

Modern world tendencies to the spread of network distance technologies opened up brand new perspectives of the educational process development. Rational combination of such technologies with the existing teaching methods and approaches became the guarantee of successful educational activity and teacher-student cooperation.

Today almost all higher institutions develop and introduce their own system of distance education. The notion of distance education can be determined as a specific form of educational process based on the implementation and practical application of the newest information and communication technologies that provide effective continuous interactive cooperation between all participants of the education activity independently of their locality. The aim of such distance learning is giving the unlimited possibility of working with the appropriate educational materials individually or in groups and getting the necessary consultation at any convenient time and place.

Distance learning isn’t suggested to be the form or kind of part-time education or the type of student’s individual work or training. It must be organized and carried out according to the content and methodological goals of full-time educational process although the tuition methods and specific character of teacher-student cooperation differ greatly because of the new advantages of modern informational environment.

Distance form of education can be successfully applied while learning foreign language at any stage of study. The effectiveness of such study depends, first of all, on the quality of methodical materials which accompany each lesson and ability of a teacher to control and motivate his students to intensive individual work. Methodical materials for distance learning must be directed to the individual development of foreign communicative competence of students, gaining and training of all necessary linguistic skills (vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening and writing). They have to provide all appropriate conditions to mastering a new learning material by students with its further practical application and promote student’s creative and scientific search.

According to the educational tasks which face the teachers of higher school nowadays, the methodology of distance foreign language learning must include and rationally combine the following technologies:

ü Pedagogical

ü Information

Modern pedagogical technologies must be directed to the development of cognitive and scientific activity of students, their creativity and language erudition.

Besides, they have to correspond to didactic and practical goals of the educational process. Here we can refer to:

· group discussions

· business role games

· method of Projects

· Case technology

· conferences

· presentations and seminars

They help not only to develop spontaneous speech but also to increase the motivation of non-linguistic students to learn foreign language, give the opportunity to evaluate own communicative skills, linguistic competence and provide efficient self-control activity. These methods should be applied taking into consideration the level of previous preparation of students, specificity of their interests and future qualification.

To information technologies we can include modern technologies and servers which are used to create, store and transmit the educational material and also to maintain technically the distance learning on the base of telecommunication means. They combine:

· synchronous (Web chat, video conferences and on-line seminars, Webinars, Skype, ICQ, IRC, Telnet

· asynchronous (electronic books and manuals, printed materials with exercises and tests, multimedia, Moodle system, authentic audio and video materials, Web forums and Web pages)

While using such informational resources students get the appropriate skills of reading, writing, speaking, advance their vocabulary, form sociocultural competence and speech etiquette.

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