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INNOVATIVE ICT-BASED FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Training programs on CD-ROM
At the present moment the teacher has quite a lot of educational computer programs, both domestic and authentic. In front of a teacher using a computer program for learning, the problem of their integration in the educational process arises. Nowadays there are number of textbooks that have training programs on CD-ROM. These programs are fully correspond to the concept of the textbook, to a thematic and unit scheduling, so it makes it easier to incorporate multimedia components in each lesson. These applications are a convenient and effective way of independent work of students at home. Each of these training programs has certain goals to work with grammar, vocabulary, reading, phonetics and requires the student and the teacher elementary computer skills. The same can be said about the testing program recorded on the CD. Today, there is a variety of similar programs for different levels of English, from beginner level with the games, comics, songs, poems, etc. to advanced level, such as exam preparation FCE or TOEFL type. The most common programs can be called useful to work in the university: "Living English "," Bridge to English ", "All clear", "BBC Learning English", etc. Such programs contain a great number of speech exercises, exercises to practice pronunciation, grammar exercises, activities and games to practice spelling. The topics of the units make it easy to integrate the course into the learning process. For example, the course “Bridge to English I” is a basic English language course, which consists of 20 lessons. Each lesson contains vocabulary in English and Russian languages, dialogues and grammar in Russian. Each lesson has a different theme and includes plenty of exercises that can be used both for training and control of knowledge of students. The use of computer training programs has many advantages over traditional methods of teaching. Their potential is that they allow to train different types of speech activity and conjoin them in different combinations; to help to understand linguistic phenomena; to form linguistic abilities, create communicative situations; to improve speech and language skills; and also provide the possibility of accounting leading representative system; realization of individual approach and intensification of independent work of the student; enhance cognitive activity, motivation and quality of students ' knowledge. Internet recourses in teaching foreign languages According to Seljan, Berger, Dovedan2 (2004), the Internet and the World Wide Web have provided an incredible language learning applications, offering a wide variety of educational programs, resources, software, journals, organizations, software tutorials including all types of exercises for grammar drills, vocabulary, listening and pronunciations exercises, games, electronic dictionaries, etc. The possibility of using the Internet resource is huge. Let us dwell on the methodological aspects of the use of Internet services in the educational process. Internet provides a unique opportunity for students to use authentic texts, listen and communicate with native speakers, i.e. it creates a natural language environment. But how to take advantage of it? The main objective of learning a foreign language is the formation of the communicative competence, all other goals (educational, pedagogical, developing) are realized n the process of implementation of the main goal. Communicative competence in the modern sense of the word involves the formation of the capacity for intercultural interaction. Internet resources can be extremely beneficial in his field. The Possibilities of the Internet: The teacher can choose in advance authentic reading materials on the subject matter of the oral speech; it is possible to record audio information (speech of political or public figures, interesting reports of native speakers on various topics); to hold an oral discussion of the received e-mail letters from project partners; to perform first in groups a discussion, a dispute on a particular problem of the information obtained from Internet resources, and then organize a general discussion of it in the entire class; to conduct linguistic analysis of certain communications, whether oral or written utterances of native speakers, e.g. idioms, proverbs, sayings, neologisms reflecting the specificity of functioning of language in the culture of the people; to use at least partially the artistic works of authors of the country of the target language received from the virtual library; to use the electronic grammar books and lexical reference books, dictionaries, reference books of cross-cultural nature, the materials of distance learning courses, available for inclusion in a lesson. It is particularly interesting to use the Internet when working on a project. This allows to create at the lesson of foreign language research creative atmosphere where every student is involved in an active cognitive process on the basis of the methodology of cooperation. But the Internet is used in teaching languages not only as an information support, but for communication (a conversation in real time – chat, correspondence – e-mail) that creates a natural language environment. The articipation of students in teleconferencing, chat rooms, which are attended by students from different countries of the world is very interesting and useful opportunity for new contacts and real-life conversation practice. In those discussions, conversations, "free talk" there is not only the exchange of information on a particular issue, but familiarity with some elements of another culture. Another type of work is the use of Internet resources in the form of tests for the control of lexical and grammatical skills. For example, the site www.exams.ru offers information about various international examinations in English, different practice tests. Thus, the use of Internet resources in teaching a foreign language gives the possibility of constant improvement of raining materials, increases the level of motivation in learning a foreign language. Educational technology is not yet learned. You can only set the guidelines for it possible use. Download 116 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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