Makhambetova Kuanysh Kerimkhanovna, Kerdenova Gulchat Kayynovna Kazakh-British Technical University (KBTU),

Almaty

New Technology in the EFL Learning

The Internet, the huge computer network connecting among themselves of tens millions of computers, represents practically unlimited opportunities of use of a personal computer in various spheres of human activity. Nowadays everyone has already understood that the Internet possesses enormous information opportunities and not less impressing services. The Internet with all opportunities and resources is the mean of realization of these aims and objectives. One of several advantages is the opportunity of working « not leaving a house ». Use of the Internet in education has grown exponentially. Thus it has increased the number of people who have been trained and used constantly updated information to communicate with teachers and with each others. The global network the Internet offers teachers of foreign languages a number of useful resources. They are special programs for training of foreign languages and also authentic materials which are selected by the teacher individually and adapted for particular educational aims. Inclusion of materials of a network and the contents of a lesson is one of the basic opportunities of use of the Internet. Let's recollect once again the peculiarities of a foreign language subject, irrespective of the opportunities which are offered us by the Internet, and also the type of an educational institution in which this language is taught. The major aim is the formation of the communicative competence, all other aims teaching, educational, developing are realized during realization of this overall objective. The communicative competence in its modern understanding provides formation of ability to intercultural interaction. Nowadays this purpose is the most required by any categories of the students studying foreign language. Even if the further specialization of the student is not connected with foreign trips, contacts with foreign experts, using a world net the Internet becomes more and more necessary source of getting and transferring information for any specialty. The basic information in a network is in English. However the content of the informational medium in the Internet is growing more multilingual. A well- educated person, who also can be claimed in conditions of rapidly developing technologies of the advanced countries of the world, should own the information in his sphere. Modern means of communication with partners, access to information resources of a network in the Internet assume enough skills of using not only computer, but also foreign language. It is a reality which is necessary to take into consideration, and, probably, one of the reasons, why UNESCO has declared the next century as a century of polyglots. Priority value and a century of information is the information. A way to success in many areas is access to the information and skills to work with it, but not only in the native language.

Specificity of a « Foreign Language » subject means that a leading component of the matter of teaching of the foreign language is the ways of training activities including all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing, but not basis of sciences. According to the psychological theory of training activities, teaching to any kind of skills happens during its performance, actions and operations regarding to them. Therefore for training pupils to various kinds of speech activities it is necessary to teach each pupil to practice that kind of speech activities which he possesses in the given period of time. In a basis of formation of skills in any kind of foreign language speech activity there are hearing skills. Hence, the priority in training foreign languages belongs to oral exercises. This is the basic specificity of a subject and the basic difficulty of teaching; it is especially if the question concerns the formation of speaking skills.

It is necessary to take into consideration one more feature of a subject

« Foreign Language ». It is possible to train speech activities only in dialogues and real communication. And the partner is necessary for this purpose. The computer program, CD-ROM disk, whatever interactive they would be, they can provide only dialogue with machine, instead of with the person who is alive. Exception is made to computer telecommunications, when the student has possibility to talk in real-time with other users, including native speakers, from around the world. During the electronic discussions the students can use both written and spoken language. Besides the communicative competence as we have seen, is connected closely with linguistics, and also culture, in particular with the regional geographic competence. Hence, the system of training the foreign language should be constructed so that the opportunity of acquaintance to culture of the country of learning language has been given to students.

Being trained in foreign language, the student can carry out tasks and the exercises contained in websites of the Internet, for example, write letters with the help of e-mail in learning language, to participate in virtual clubs of dialogue teleconferences, to exchange text messages in a mode of real time, to speak by phone, i.e. to apply any kinds of the information. Thus such advantages of the Internet, as efficiency of transferring the information to any distance, an opportunity of access to remote sources of information, interactivity (an opportunity of a fast feedback and dialogue), search with the help of search engines and independently, download the received materials to own computer, work with them, storage in memory of a computer during necessary time are used.

Development of new technologies of knowledge and information influences on an education system, causing significant changes in methods of training. Regular use of the Internet makes process of training of the English language more attractive to students as they get unlimited access to interesting regional geographic materials which differ from out-of-date texts in the textbook. First of all it concerns such themes as "Sports", "Music", « the Youth fashion ». With the help the Internet students can expand the lexicon, especially, everyday lexicon, their spelling improves. The Internet presumes the students’ participation in selection of a material for practical classes and feels themselves more independent.

If to speak about features of teaching materials in the Internet, it is possible to say, that all texts in the Internet are authentic. Exercises in electronic training courses are suitable for independent work of students. The educational projects, which are available in the Internet, allow applying the received language knowledge in a real situation of dialogue and in writing. All done work then orally is discussed at a lesson and whenever possible in foreign language. The Internet in training is not alternative to traditional textbooks. This is only a new mean of training, which allows coping with a task more successfully.

The most important thing to remember is: the use of the Internet at a lesson is impossible without participation of the teacher who should possess necessary skills. At practical classes the most positive benefit to using the Internet is considered to be its informational role and at the same time its role in increasing motivation of training is great. The use of the Internet is very important for the Students’ Independent Study in a choice of a material and it helps to increase their activity and interest at practical lessons.

Using the Internet, it is possible to use any databanks and different encyclopedias, directly to communicate through any distance with native speakers. In general, training with use of the Internet is the creative process, which allows developing and creating new methodical means. During training it is necessary to choose types of texts, ways of their studying, the form of communication and the control.