USING OF MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENSE OF STUDENTS OF NON-LANGUAGE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS

Abstract

The modern realities require the need of a new approach and the usage of innovations in the foreign language teaching. This is due to the intensive development of the global computer network. Nowadays the purpose of studying of a foreign language for a future specialist is changing radically. In addition to professional qualifications, he or she must have the skills of fluent business communication in a foreign language in the context of professional activity. In the article the usage of multimedia technologies for the development of foreign language competence of students of non-linguistic higher education institutions is considered. It has been found that the usage of multimedia technologies in the process of informatization of the higher education is the process of using of the information and communication potential of the modern Internet technologies. The modern technical means of education affect the modernization of the educational process in general, as well as activate the mental activity of students and the creativity of teachers. The project method is one of the technologies in learning, including foreign languages, based on the modeling of the social interaction in a small group during the educational process. Also during English language classes the case technologies should be used. The main subject of the article is to prove the feasibility of using the innovative multimedia technologies for the enhancing the foreign language competence of students of non-linguistic higher education institutions.