THE USE OF BLENDED LEARNING IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES TO STUDENTS OF NON-LINGUISTIC SPECIALTIES
The article is dedicated to the relevance of promotion of information and communication technologies in the educational process, benefits of using them as well as the idea that blended learning is an innovative form of teaching methods. Also the article deals with the issue of compatibility of full-time division and e-learning education, advantages and disadvantages of both forms and the additional opportunities of blended learning for students of nonlinguistic specialties. The extension of the methods and techniques for teachers and the learners with the help of educational internet-resources (hotlist, multimedia scrapbook, treasure hunt, subject sampler and web quest), technologies Web 2.0 (blog, wiki, podcast) in combination with the full-time division in teaching foreign languages to students of non- linguistic specialties is offered to advance motivation of students. Forms of organization of the Internet communication (synchronous and asynchronous) and the purposes of their use for teaching foreign languages are described.
Keywords: information technology, e-learning, blended learning, student motivation, learning foreign languages
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Issue: 4, 2015
Series of issue: Issue 4
Rubric: MODERN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Pages: 70 — 74
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