THE INTEGRATION OF INTERNET RESOURCES INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Author(s): Mineeva O.A., Liashenko M.S.

Rubric: Educational environment

DOI: 10.21777/2500-2112-2022-1-14-22

Release: 2022-1 (38)

Pages: 14-22

Keywords: ESL, EFL, communicative competence, ICT, LMS Moodle, electronic resources in teaching, online resources in teaching ESL, motivation

Annotation: A rapidly changing educational environment demands a constant search for new sources of information and educational technologies from a foreign language teacher. The widespread use of online resources contributes to the optimization of language education. It also makes the forming of students’ foreign language communicative competence more flexible and creative. The article examines the didactic potential of Internet resources for teaching a foreign language to university students of non-linguistic majors. The authors reviewed modern research on the use Internet resources in language education. They also describe the main features of the main kinds of Internet resources. The authors pay special attention to the criteria for selecting Internet resources for educational purposes. Besides, an in-depth analysis of the advantages of using Internet content in the educational process has been carried out. The practical significance of the research lies in the description of the experience of integrating Internet resources into the training course “English for Specific Purposes” taught to master’s students of Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University majored in Pedagogics, training profile “Mechatronics and Robotics”.

Bibliography: Mineeva O.A., Liashenko M.S. THE INTEGRATION OF INTERNET RESOURCES INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING // Education Resources and Technologies. – 2022. – № 1 (38). – С. 14-22. doi: 10.21777/2500-2112-2022-1-14-22