INTEGRATION OF ONLINE STUDY TECHNIQUES IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES TO NON-PHILOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

Continuous learning is a major prerequisite for maintaining an adequate professional level. An important tool to help a person exercise his/her right to education, to obtain new information, to engage in continuous learning and develop independent learning skills is an online study mode. The main task of a higher educational institution is to create conditions for the formation of a personality possessing the qualities which are necessary for a contemporary individual: the ability to act independently and actively, to take decisions, to adapt oneself to changing life circumstances, to improve and develop oneself. The article deals with possible ways of developing and improving students’ language skills by means of integrating online study techniques in the process of teaching foreign languages to non-philological university students. The task of the teacher is to organize students’ independent work which is extremely important for teaching at higher educational institutions. Analysis of recent publications was made. The author analyzes the concept of distanced teaching mode as a motivating factor in studying foreign languages, as it facilitates the formation of students’ general cultural and professional competences. The educational information design technology in foreign languages at non-philological faculty has been proposed. It has been proved the basic criterion of effective informational product – information-oriented competence of professional foreign language knowledge.