Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: The article analyzes the causes of conflict in an educational institution, as well as a sense of anxiety as a factor in the escalation of conflict behavior. The relationship between upbringing and accumulation of anxiety is described. Features of anxious children are brought. The conclusion is made about the connection of anxiety and the suppressing system of education in conflict situations in an educational institution.

Annotation: The article reveals characteristics of interactive teaching a foreign language. It researches separate linguodidactic elements for interactive features. Particular attention is paid to the correlation of notions “communicative” and “interactive” and their interpretation in methodology. It concludes that there are signs of changing the language-teaching paradigm from communicative to interactive.

Annotation: The article views historic premises and present-day peculiarities of projecting national characters in ethnopsychology. It finds specificity and ways of studying national self-consciousness and ethno-stereotypes on this basis. It emphasizes prospectiveness of this method of studying ethnic groups and its being used as methodological base for a number of interdisciplinary spheres focusing on intercultural and international relationships. Interdisciplinary relations in the spectrum of issues of national character and ethnostereotypes are shown as well.

Annotation: In this article, the role of information-communicative technologies in the teaching a foreign language in an institute of higher education is considered. The aim of the author is to discover the enormous possibilities of information technologies which contribute to more effective mastering of a foreign language by students. This topic is relevant in the context of the ubiquitous use of information technologies and the urgent need to address to them when studying at a university. In the context of a competence approach to learning, the cognitive capabilities of computers, social networks and the Internet deserve priority attention. The author analyzes various forms, methods and results of using information technologies. The author makes a conclusion about the positive value of the application of information-communicative technologies and the successful formation of professional and personal competences. The main results indicate the increase in students’ motivation to learn a foreign language; overcoming the language barrier; development of speech competence; acquisition of cultural knowledge; development of creative abilities.

Annotation: The article proves role and significance of athletic gymnastics as a means of cognitive and emotional discharge under increasing information streams and information overload. It presents a technology consisting of a complex of exercises at different stages that provide total invigoration of organism and psychological well-being.