Beksaeva N.A.

Saratov State Technical Univercity

E-learning and foreign languages in global communicative environment

 

The Bologna process has a humanitarian nature in education and charges teachers of foreign languages with a specific mission of training students who are ready to receive education in European universities. This training includes not only traditional, physical possession of all aspects of language, but, overall, the formation of the conceptual apparatus of the students, and provides opportunities for cultural, educational and orientation activities in European universities. Regarding this the main task is to make substantial changes to the existing program. Retaining the same basic goals and objectives of preparing students for foreign language, should significantly expand the section, which is associated with a regional geographic and cultural training. Before the attention focused on the ethnic and cultural and linguistic only the target language country was completely justified, but now, in the light of the new education policy in Europe should expand this geography and provide additional knowledge related to the diversity of cultures, languages, national education systems to natural entering students in the area of European higher education.

A new educational model should probably contain a reasoned approach to the study of English as the primary means of international communication, which will give students the opportunity to be connected to European information and educational environment at an early stage.

The rules and regulations of the Bologna Declaration involve considerable independence in the student’s mastery of knowledge, which requires specific information support. The need for ongoing feedback between the members of the learning process defines a new structure for the presentation of educational material and to form and content of the accompanying materials that make multimedia a training set for a specific discipline and are implemented in a high-tech information environment. At the present level of educational scientific and practical interest means the methodology of teaching communication in actively developing educational information and communications environment, which refers to the scale of the possible communication multi-environment and to the set of pedagogical interactions, or meta-environment, and to the integration of media and communication. [1].

If the language competence requires the knowledge of grammar and vocabulary and the ability to generate an infinite number of grammatically correct sentences specific to language, communicative competence, it is broadly defined as the ability to make effective use of language in the process of communication and includes the ability to lead a meaningful and coherent dialogue. [2]. Dialogue as a system of rules of interaction and the choice of learning strategies in high-tech information environment takes on new meaning.

Scientific and technical development of modern society requires the computerization of education and sets the task of specialist training with a high level of professionalism and competitiveness in the labor market which is now determined not only by its highly qualified professional in the field, but also willing to solve professional problems in a foreign language communication, providing information processes the interaction. At this stage of social development language became a tool of orientation in the modern information environment and, therefore, possession is regarded as a significant personal and professional characteristics of the specialist.

Modern educational processes cannot take place without the involvement of a wide range of information resources, developing skills without the processing and presentation. Establishment of a learning environment has been the subject of a number of studies. The authors propose various approaches to understanding the nature and structure of the medium. However, the research of the components of the learning environment are divided into two categories: subjective and objective. The subjects of the educational process are students and teachers. The objects are teaching tools and learning activities, methods, material resources, the control of regional pedagogical process, ways of communication (organizational, management, awareness-motivation, retaliatory behavior, technical and emotional). Objects are the carriers of information and learning activities that are being assimilated and transformed into consciousness of actors turning the educational activity in personality competence.

There is still no coherent coordinated strategy to solve the problems of information technologies that have little to do with the curriculum and programs. They have not been well studied and worked through the psychological and pedagogical aspects of information technology in the educational environment. There are contradictions between:

1.                 the demands of modern society to the level of professional competence and professional mainly used by conservative didactic models of teaching a foreign language, which do not take into account these requirements;

2.                 between potential and actual capabilities of foreign language teaching in innovative educational environment which have the active and low-tech design of didactic aspects of the introduction and the use of information technology in the learning process and the rapid development of science and technology.

The need to integrate the experiences of forming foreign language competence professionally orients students to analyze new forms, methods and technology education, states educational standards, a modern labor market and meets the requirements of this market to a specialist.

As the analysis of psycho-pedagogical and didactic studies, the required capacity for the development of autonomy and creativity of students, access to new sources of educational information, the ability to use computer simulations has ICT training. On this basis, the new learning environment can be formed in many ways. The appeal to the Information and Communication Technologies greatly expands the composition and capabilities of several components of the educational environment. Thus, among the sources of educational information in these circumstances may include databases, information and referral systems, electronic books and encyclopedias, Internet resources, etc. As the tools of learning activity can be considered computer simulators, control software, etc., as media – local computer network or the Internet.

In terms of information and educational environment the role of actors changed: the focus is student himself: his motives, the goal of learning. All methodological decisions (organization of educational material used techniques, ways of learning) are refracted through the prism of the individual learner: his needs, abilities, activity, intelligence and other factors, the backbone of innovative language learning is a goal-setting teacher and students, individualization and information tools and technologies the use of which provides innovative education.

The overall aim of learning/teaching a foreign language in the creation of the concept of innovative educational environment is to meet the social needs and personal goals and motivations of students who are associated with active integration of our society in the world economic system. Objectives of the course, therefore, include the development of all components of foreign language professionally oriented competence, that is, mastering the language system for professional communication flowing in contact with representatives of other cultural communities. The analysis of the most common approaches to the concepts of information learning environments suggests that the concept of an innovative educational environment for teaching foreign languages of university students should be built within the framework of person-oriented paradigm based on the integration of communicative competence, professionally-oriented and contextual approaches. As a component of language learning, the approach serves as very general basis linguistic learning and gives an idea of the chosen learning strategy, which is the basis for the choice of methods and techniques in language teaching.

References

1.                Beksaeva N. E-Learning Environment in Foreign Language Teaching: Limba, Cultura, Civilizatie. – Politehnica  Press, Bucuresti, 2010. - С. 23-28.

2.                Бексаева Н.А. Электронное обучение иностранным языкам в коммуникационно-мировом пространстве Инновационная лингводидактика в контексте межкультурной и профессиональной коммуникации: Межвузовский сборник научных трудов –  Саратов: ООО Издательский Центр «Наука» , 2010.- С. 35-42.