TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AT NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The role of foreign language teaching at non-linguistic universities has positively changed last decade in our country in accordance with global changes. The development of intercultural communication, the necessity for social and scientific practice exchange between countries has changed the requirements for specialists of almost all spheres. Consequently within the transition of our country to international arena the social request for specialists with language knowledge and high level of digital skills has increased as well. With the rapid development of technology some teaching methods had lost their actuality and for teachers appeared a new challenge to concern their teaching materials and tools. This article is aimed to show the effectiveness of teaching foreign language to students of non-linguistic specialty (tourism faculty) using digital technology. Combination of two tasks as formation of non-linguistic students’ digital skills and improvement their language knowledge is recently-developed within this study. The article defines the importance and actuality of digital technology in language teaching, as with the help of them it is possible to make classes more communicative oriented. Also these technologies give opportunity for teachers to teach language material more effective and for students to be active during the lesson. During this study a special program was modeled taking into account the specific features of teaching foreign language to non-linguistic students. Within this study the beneficial aspects are observed and the results of study are included in modeling professional oriented foreign language educational complex. The applicability of the article has been proved by satisfactory results of end-of-course test and makes it actual for further continuation of the course with implementation of higher level tasks.