INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AS AN IMPORTANT AID IN TRAINING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Information and communication technologies are an unlimited basis for creating an informational and objective environment for the education and self – education of people, the satisfaction of their professional and personal interests and needs. But only one availability of access to Internet resources will not guarantee fast and high – quality language education. That is why at the present stage of teaching foreign languages with using the latest Internet technologies, there is an urgent need to develop new training Internet resources aimed at integrated formation and development progress of learning FL. ICTs contain a huge educational potential and seem to be an additional opportunity to create an informational and learning environment. They help to increase the level of sociocultural competence in teaching FL, creating unique conditions for learning cultural diversity of the countries of the studied language. The development of online training resources allows to have a completely different look at the educational resources of the Internet and to perceive them as alternative. Educational Internet resources can also be directed to the development of foreign language communicative competences of all types of language activities. The development of skills achieved with the help of educational Internet resources while teaching FL meets the requirements of modern higher education for teaching foreign languages (basic FL and professional – oriented FL). Thus, the use of Internet resources in the process of learning foreign language (together with traditional textbooks) will contribute to the achievement of the main goals of learning oforeign languages.

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