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ON DEVELOPING MODEL OF APPLYING ONLINE COMPONENT IN SELF-GUIDED FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES AT NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITIES // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2017. Issue 8 (185). P. 15-21

The research concerns the problems of applying textbooks with online components in the organization of selfguided work of students learning foreign languages at non-linguistic universities under modern conditions. We believe that the competences described in the Federal State Standard of Higher Education can not be fully developed in students lacking the necessary knowledge of a foreign language after finishing their secondary education. One more relevant problem arises here, the one of the equalization of the initial level of students’ language skills. The institutions of higher education used to solve this problem by running a correction course, but due to the reduction in the amount of contact hours, we believe it is advisable to organize such work outside the classroom. Such changes will require a careful choice of textbooks. Therefore, we suggest applying a model of work with English textbooks having online components in the organization of students’ self-guided work. We analyze the results of the experiment aimed at the approbation of the technique in question and illustrate them by the statistical data obtained by testing the experimental and control groups. We prove that most language skills improve considerably due to the use of computer learning. Moreover, this pedagogical technique contributes to growing motivation and results in developing necessary competences prescribed by the State standard.

Keywords: higher school, educational process, foreign language teaching, competence approach, online learning, self-guided work, model of applying online component