Use of innovative educational technologies during a foreign language learning

In the article the substantiation of selection of innovative pedagogical technologies and application for competence-oriented preparation of future teachers of mathematics for technologicalization of educational process in the conditions of profile school is carried out. Innovative educational and information technologies are analyzed, which comprehensively contribute to the formation of professional readiness of future mathematics teachers to the technologicalization of the educational process in the profile school in the system of professional training in higher education institutions. Promising innovative pedagogical, educational and information technologies that acquire further relevance in the educational environment are identified. It is proved that the introduction of training courses for future mathematics teachers on the use of innovative educational technologies in specialized schools provides a favorable educational environment for the formation of research competencies, including the use of mathematical analysis in modeling experiments and mathematical statistics. Analysis of the results of experimental research confirms the effectiveness of experimental learning using innovative educational and information technologies for the formation of professional readiness of future masters of mathematics to technologize the educational process in a specialized school. The introduction of training courses for future mathematics teachers on the use of innovative educational and information technologies in specialized schools provides a favorable educational environment for the formation of research competencies, including the use of mathematical analysis in modeling experiments in specialized schools. Analysis of the results of experimental research confirms the effectiveness of experimental learning using innovative educational and information technologies for the formation of professional readiness of future masters of mathematics to technologicalize the educational process in a specialized school.

Modern educational standards implementation requires the development of new learning process strategies. Introduction of innovative methods and technologies in the educational process allows to increase the efficiency of students learning activity and to choose an individual trajectory in an open educational environment. The study substantiates the necessity of development linguacultural competence of higher school students in the process of learning a foreign language. The authors identify the basic principles and distinctive features of language training; analyze the system and approaches to form students’ foreign language communicative competence. The paper discusses the advantages of using online platforms of virtual museums for the purpose of the development of student’s linguistic-country competence in higher educational institutions. Broad educational potential of virtual museums as an innovative resource that complements the curriculum and expands the traditional learning system, offering students knowledge of culture in the context of various activities is taken into account. The research represents a brief description of the virtual museum application for classroom tours in the process of teaching students and the developed and tested model of the formation of linguistic-country competence.

In the article, the authors analyze the peculiarities of the formation of professional foreign language competence. The main attention is paid to the forms of organization of independent work of higher education students in the process of learning a foreign language for professional purposes. Foreign language proficiency is becoming a necessary skill for specialists in various professions. Independent work plays an important role in the organization of the educational process. The project method is considered one of the most effective ways to organize independent work. The authors describe its main stages, features and advantages. It is noted that this method promotes the integration of knowledge, the development of independence, critical thinking and communication skills of students. Particular attention is paid to the role of the teacher in creating favourable conditions for the implementation of project activities, and various forms of project work are proposed. As a result, it is mentioned that the project method is an effective tool for improving students’ foreign language competence and their competitiveness in a foreign language environment. The purpose of the article is to study the project method in the process of preparing tasks for students’ independent work when learning English for specific purposes. The authors reveal the essence of this method, its features, stages and application in the educational process. The paper deals with such concepts as: “foreign language communicative competence”, “professional communication”, “independent work”, “educational technologies”, “interactive learning”, “method”, “project method”, “critical thinking”. The development of foreign language communicative competence in higher education students is one of the priority tasks of the educational process at non-language faculties. Mastering the peculiarities of professional and business communication in a foreign language promotes mutual understanding between specialists and ensures effective communication in a professional environment.

Nowadays foreign language is not just a part of nation's culture, it is also the guarantee of student’s successful career in the future. The achievement of high level proficiency of foreign language is not possible without fundamental language training in higher education institution. Most of them in our country provide students with at least two or even three foreign languages. In the context of higher school reforming, important changes in the educational technologies of foreign language teaching are envisaged. Modern language education is also gradually being modernized, introducing a modular rating system for teaching foreign languages. Interdisciplinary integration, democratization and economization of education determine the manifestation of innovative components in the teaching of the foreign languages. All this requires the formulation of the new claims for teaching and a foreign language teacher in the Free Economic Zone. At the current stage of society development, the purpose of foreign language teaching in higher education institutions is students' mastering of communicative competencies that will allow them to implement their knowledge, skills and abilities to solve specific communicative tasks in real life situations. The introduction of the new effective methods of foreign language teaching in the process of preparing students of humanities and technical specialties has become not only desirable but also necessary. Innovative orientation requires teachers to master and apply the pedagogical innovations, as well as stimulate the search for new forms and methods of educational process organization. High-quality language training of students is impossible without the use of modern educational technologies. The most effective are the professionally-oriented foreign language learning, the project work in teaching, the application of information and telecommunication technologies, the work with educational computer programs in foreign languages (multimedia system), the distance technologies in foreign language learning, the use of Internet resources, the foreign language teaching in the computer environment (forums, blogs, e-mail, etc.). Nowadays, the methodology of the use of computer programs is being developed actively getting more used. Computer programs offer ample opportunities to improve the process of foreign language learning, increasing its efficiency. The computer program provides the perception of information through auditory and visual channels, so it also allows you to organize teaching and control the foreign language acquisition in different modes of independent search and at different levels of complexity. Foreign language teaching means are important to ensure the full and effective organization of students' learning in the classroom to master foreign language activities.

Abstract. The article suggests a comprehensive study of the problem of implementing modern methods of students’ foreign language communicative competence development in foreign language classes. It is proven that at the current stage, the emphasis in education is shifting towards the need to form a system of professional competences in the future specialists, which will help them to perform their professional duties efficiently. The authors consider foreign language communicative competence as an integrative personality formation, which has a complex structure and acts as an interaction and interpenetration of linguistic, sociocultural and communicative competencies. It is emphasized that forming foreign language communicative competence for future specialists at the current stage of world community development should be considered as a mandatory component of general professional training. It is stressed out that to ensure the effectiveness of the process of foreign language communicative competence development, it is necessary to apply new methodological approaches and determine the pedagogical conditions for their implementation. The authors characterize the structure of foreign language communicative competence of students of non-language specialties. In the context of foreign language learning for students of higher education institutions, the concepts of “general competency” and “communicative competency” are distinguished and their components are analysed. It is demonstrated that for the effective development of foreign language communicative competence, a foreign language teacher must use the latest teaching methods that combine communicative and cognitive goals. The article also proves the need to take into account the specifics of professional interests within the specialty, i.e., specialized content (special terminology, typical communication situations and genre specifics of professional language), contextual language study of grammatical phenomena, focusing attention on practical language use, etc.

Abstract. This article examines the theoretical aspects of foreign language communicative competence in students of higher medical education. The study analyses the concepts of «communication», «linguistic communication», «foreign language professional communication», and «foreign language communicative competence». It is emphasized that the development of medicine and national healthcare systems requires the application of advancements in medicine from other countries. In this context, proficiency in a foreign language and the ability to communicate with international specialists play a crucial role. Therefore, foreign language communicative competence is an essential component of the professional competence of future medical practitioners. Foreign language communicative competence is defined as an integrative personal and professional quality that determines a specialist’s ability and readiness to creatively address practice-oriented and communicative tasks within their professional activity and foreign language professional communication. The foundation of foreign language communicative competence is foreign language professional communication, understood as a system of communicative norms, skills, and strategies that enables effective use of a foreign language for professional communicative activities, participation in international projects, continuation of studies abroad, and engagement in scientific research. Teaching foreign languages for professional purposes at higher medical education institutions ensures the development of the necessary communicative capacity in both oral and written forms of professional communication. It equips students with practical language skills across various types of speech activity to the extent required by professional needs and facilitates access to the latest professional information through foreign language sources.

During the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education. ICT has become more and more prominent in classrooms in any possible way, enabling teachers to make their lessons more interesting and effective. Furthermore, a number of studies has been focusing on the use of technology in accommodating the needs of students with special educational needs and especially of those with specific learning disabilities. It is widely accepted that technology can help those students cope with the material that troubles them. Technology becomes even more useful when we refer to foreign language learning on the part of students with specific learning disabilities, a process that entails additional difficulties for them. English, which is the first foreign language taught to students in the Greek educational system, is a phonologically non-transparent language, a fact that causes severe difficulties to students with specific learning disabilities especially in the domain of decoding and reading comprehension. In the current article, a brief review of the use of technology in education and especially in special education will be attempted. Then, there will be a presentation of the problems faced by students with specific learning disabilities in reading comprehension in English as a foreign language. Finally, a free educational software named Rewordify will be presented. We will discuss its function and propose ways of using it in classroom for accommodating the needs of students with specific learning disabilities in reading comprehension in English. Potential limitations will also be discussed.

The social demand of the Ukrainian society at the present stage is determined that the specialist in the education field should be prepared for the effective performance of their professional functions and full participation in all spheres of life of a multicultural society, which involves the study of the problem on the development of the polylogical communication ability of future teachers. This skill is a necessary reason for successful socialization, full involvement in future professional activities, including the contacts in the international professional spheres. The publication enlightens the importance of polylogue implementation as a form of speech activity (native and foreign), which combines the components of dialogic and monologic speeches during the educational process organization in the higher educational establishment, necessary for the moulding general and professional competencies of the future primary school teacher, respectively to the requirements of legal acts: the Law of Ukraine "On Education", the professional standard for the professions "Teacher of primary classes of a general secondary education institution", "Teacher of primary education (with a diploma of a junior specialist)", State Standard of Primary Education. The work focuses on the usage of the polylogue in the process of implementing the communicative-activity approach in the system of training specialists in primary education field by means of interactive teaching methods, in particular, the debate game, discussion and the project method. The authors substantiate the didactic potential of the polylogue as a synthetic form of speech activities, regarding the achieving the main goal of future teachers’ language learning (native and foreign), which involves effective communication in oral and written language forms, the use of language for the purpose of intercultural communication in the dialogue of cultures and civilizations of the modern world. It has been proven on the basis of the analysis and generalization of the experience of teachers of verbal disciplines in the Municipal Higher Educational Institution “Lutsk Pedagogical College”, in regard to the use of interactive educational technologies, the effectiveness of the project method, educational debate game, in the system of forming general and professional pedagogical competences, primarily native and foreign language communicative competence while teaching students of higher educational institutions in Ukraine.

Introduction. The system of continued professional education in modern Russia is aimed at raising the level of professional workers’ ability for competition at the global vocational market. Among the most required competences we put an emphasis on the ability for efficient communication in the native and foreign languages pursuing social, cultural and professional interaction. The practical experience proves that students of various courses of study within the system of continued professional education have difficulties while communicating in a foreign language because of a low level of their foreign language communication competence that is based on ability for decoding and producing a discourse. Aim. The article considers the factors to develop students’ ability for decoding and producing a discourse in the format of reflexive positional discussion. Methodology and research methods. Development of the advanced and high level of foreign language competence is possible via introduction of institutional discursive practices into the educational process. Development of foreign language competence in the system of continued professional education is being discussed from the point of synergy of pedagogical science and applied linguistics. System-synergetic, communicative-activity, discursive and technological approaches have been chosen as the methodological base to develop the system of criteria of students’ preparedness and ability to communicate in a foreign language. Methods of analysis and synthesis have been used during the work as well. Results and scientific novelty. The materials presented in the publication make a contribution to the theory and methodology of continued professional education regarding effective experts’ foreign language mastering, and skills acquisition for the most productive interpersonal and professional-oriented communication. Methodologically-based definition and description of the components of subject and structure of the concept of discursive foreign language competence are given. The educational technique that makes it possible to realize a wide range of discursive practices invariants has been developed. The algorithm for advanced and high level of discursive competence development has been described. The criteria of students’ preparedness and ability to communicate in a foreign language have been described as well as the marks related to the levels of developed discursive foreign language competence. Practical significance. The author's proposed technology enables to realize a wide range of invariants of the discursive practices and considerably increases the possibilities of effective foreign language training for specialists of various branches of economy and production, and pupils of different levels of training. The presented research results can be used when developing educational and methodical complexes in the systems of professional development and continued professional education.

Over the past decade there has been an increasing attempt to explore the potential of computer games in order to engage students’ towards foreign language learning. However, literature review has shown that there are still few attempts to provide empiric evidence of the educational potential of computer games, whereas the present study aims to address this lack. The purpose of our paper is to explore the possibilities of using a highly interactive 3D online game, we previously designed according to our student needs, in order to reinforce their foreign language acquisition and communicative competence. The target groups are students of a German foreign language course from the A1 level (CEFR). For our project we designed a 3D online-game that is based on a role-play, in which students need to cooperate in order to complete the game successfully. The game is built upon the OpenSim platform, and cooperation is conducted through game chats. Game chat interactions are being registered in a log file that is later processed. Furthermore, by analyzing different indicators we are able to obtain initial evidences to assess students’ proficiency regarding their communicative competence in the target language. We include some examples from a pilot study we did with students of a German foreign language course (A1).KeywordsCooperative learningvirtual worldscomputer-supported language learning

The work is devoted to determining the purpose of professional foreign language teaching to students of an agrarian university in the conditions of content and language integrated learning. Based on the study of the history of the issue of determining the purpose of foreign language teaching at different stages, it was concluded that the main result of teaching should be the development of students’ professional intercultural foreign language communicative competence. This type of competence in work is understood as the ability and willingness of agrarian university students to use a foreign language as a mean of professional communication with representatives of different countries and cultures, taking into account the specifics of intercultural interaction, as well as a mean of cognition and professional development. Structurally, intercultural professional foreign language communicative competence includes three blocks: professional, intercultural, and foreign language communicative. Foreign language communicative competence represents the ability and willingness of students to use a foreign language as a mean of communication, cognition and development. It will reflect the professional orientation of teaching and include linguistic, speech, sociocultural, strategic and educational-cognitive components. Intercultural competence represents the ability and willingness to interact with representatives of different countries and cultures, aimed at establishing professional intercultural contacts, resolving conflict situations in the field of intercultural communication, and achieving the goals of intercultural interaction. All these three blocks of professional intercultural foreign language communicative competence exist separately only for descriptive purposes and are in close interconnection with each other. We also consider professional foreign language communicative competence as a level category consisting of value-motivational, cognitive, communicative and reflective components. Each of the components is described in detail.

The article analyses the definitions of ‘pedagogical conditions’ and ‘foreign language communicative competence’. It is noted that European integration processes, the spread of multicultural education and Ukraine's active participation in international educational programs have led to an increase in the requirements for the level of foreign language proficiency among students for higher and professional higher education. The relevance of the study is due to globalisation processes that put forward new requirements for the training of specialists and foreign language proficiency is becoming an integral part of professional activities in the field of information technology. The scientific novelty of the study is to substantiate the pedagogical conditions for the development of foreign language communicative competence, taking into account the specifics of training specialists in the field of information technology. It has been determined that the successful formation of foreign language communicative competence in information technology students depends on a set of pedagogical conditions. The first pedagogical condition is the formation of motivation for future IT specialists to learn foreign languages; the second pedagogical condition is the systematic use of digital interactive technologies as a means of forming foreign-language pedagogical competencies; the third pedagogical condition is the creation of professionally directed educational and methodological support (workbooks in English for professional purposes for each semester) for foreign language training of future IT specialists in institutions of professional higher education; the fourth pedagogical condition is the readiness of foreign language teachers to use professionally directed educational and methodological support. As a result of the study, recommendations have been developed for the implementation of effective foreign language teaching strategies that will help improve the level of foreign language communicative competence of future specialists in Industry 12 – Information Technology. The recommendations cover such aspects as the selection of teaching materials, the use of interactive teaching methods, the development of workbooks, the use of digital technologies, the organisation of the educational process and the assessment of learning outcomes.

Today, knowledge of foreign languages is required to avoid barriers to communication between people around the world. Thus, learning foreign languages is relevant at almost any age.The purpose of this article is to consider the generally accepted methods and determine the effectiveness of each of them during training. To achieve fluency in a foreign language, it is necessary to divide foreign language communicative competence into a number of components and develop them both individually and in combination. Each of the models is a separate and independent method that can be used to improve certain components of foreign language communicative competence. The main components include: the development of speech, writing, reading, and the study of vocabulary. There is no single approach in the scientific literature to determine the structure of foreign language communicative competence, as the general form of this competence can be presented in a set of components such as linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic competence. Therefore, it is not possible to dwell on a specific method as ideal for the formation of competence, as each of them has its disadvantages and advantages. The formation of foreign language communicative competence requires a long and careful study of the material offered by a teacher who uses a certain method.

The article discusses the features of intensive learning of foreign languages. The study of foreign languages in modern society has become an inseparable component of the training of specialists at all levels. The article takes a brief overview of the private teaching methods of students' foreign language communicative competence. Teaching foreign languages at intensive courses in language centers has its own specifics, which is different from studying at school and university. There are many intensive methods and concepts of teaching foreign languages. The external form as well as the means of implementing the intensive training system is the conscious and purposeful management of the process of communication in the study group by the teacher. A prerequisite for the effective course of this process is to increase the activity and creative role of the teacher, maximum mobilization.

The successful development and strengthening of Ukraine’s international and intercultural relations with other states leading to the global expansion of social and economic integration requires future International Relations specialists to communicate professionally in foreign language. In this context, there is a need to take new approach to foreign language teaching in institutions of higher education. The present study proves that one of the most promising directions in education development in the modern world is blended learning as it combines the strengths of traditional educational methods and benefits of online learning technologies. The article states that e-learning course is a major means of blended learning implementation in the process of foreign language communicative competence training for future International Relations specialists. The e-learning course structure for students of the first year in specialty 055 «International relations, public communications and regional studios» based on the MOODLE 3 platform has been described. The results of the experiment at the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine demonstrate that using the MOODLE platform forms and improves the future International Relations specialists’ foreign language communicative competence and ensures the main educational process requirements (openness, accessibility, interactivity, and instrumentality) have positive effects for both teachers and students.