USEFUL EXPERIENCE OF ONLINE LEARNING

It is hardly imagine our world without Internet: modern technologies have penetrated into different spheres from common life to industrial enterprises. The other place, where applications of IT are widely used, seems to be education. The online learning combined with the involvement of a wide variety of methods in training different subjects (including English) has become a leading dominant in modern education during the pandemic COVID-19. This useful experience will allow to implement it now in different situations, that can immerge unexpectedly or sometimes just for convenience. Being skillful and equipped with corresponding platforms (such as ZOOM, Moodle, Teams, Kahoots and many others) and methods suitable in such situations, teacher can make up an atmosphere of communication based on diverse activities online. The natural environment of speaking the language being studied will be the most effective type of interaction of students within the framework of online lesson. Basic knowledge is the basis for obtaining new competences through discussion of certain topical issues using the tasks set by teacher as well as through illustrative, audio and video materials which are more available in this case. Besides the teacher plays an important role as a mentor of students' communicative activity and creating a favorable atmosphere for the active involvement of all participants into the process of language acquisition in specific conditions online. The integrative approach will allow to highlight the most significant details in both advantages and disadvantages of online training and to analyze them respectively. Taking into consideration the obtained experience there is a certain possibility to summarize it in the frames of this article.

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