Introduction main part: The use of technology, specifically video chat and ict in efl

The actuality of the course paper. This course paper investigated students’ perceptions about the use the use of technology in the classroom. The participants were English Language Arts students at a high school in Iowa. The participants included 33 freshman, 28 juniors and 15 seniors. Students were given a survey to gauge their perceptions of how the use of technology in the classroom impacted their engagement and allowed them to meet learning targets. Additionally, the survey examined students’ perceptions regarding the benefits and limitations of technology in the classroom. The results of this study suggest that students perceived the use of technology to be more engaging and to improve their ability to meet learning targets. Students in the study believed that technology helps them complete assignments in a more thorough and efficient way. However, along with the efficiency and thoroughness, the students believed that technology can be distracting.
The aim of the course paper This paper addresses the issue of students’ discourse skills development via new modern information and communication technologies (ICT). The authors discuss the notion of discourse; define the structure of the discourse competence; develop a nomenclature of discourse skills, which can be developed by the use of modern information and communication technologies; describe a study, which aimed to develop students’ discourse skills during a short-term development course. The objective of the paper is to help the English language teachers and students to overcome this problem by showing the results of application of innovative strategies for improving English language listening skill. Specifically, this study aims to bring innovation in teaching and thus enable students to overcome their listening problem.
The practical value of the course paper One of the leading vectors of the Uzbekistan Education State Policy is the integration into the European Higher Education Area with the preservation of accumulated potential and traditions of the Uzbekistan Higher School. The ratification of the Bologna Declaration provisions in Uzbekistan is contributed greatly to the accessibility of higher education, the quality and prestige of a two-level education model, the academic mobility dynamics and academic degrees and qualifications providing in demand on the labour market. Thus, the transition to a competence-based education model has identified a number of requirements that must be met by graduates (bachelors) in their professional activities. One of these requirements for the professional staff training is to get a complete language education. The expansion of international contacts and qualitative transformation in the social, economic and political areas in Uzbekistan has taken a foreign language as a real need for intercultural communication means. According to this, there is a need to review existing methods, tools and forms of foreign language teaching in high school that would be able to meet the needs of modern information society.