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Internet recourses in teaching foreign languages.
According to Seljan, Berger, Dovedan (2004), the Internet and the World Wide Web have provided an incredible language learning applications, offering a wide variety of educational programs, resources, software, journals, organizations, software tutorials including all types of exercises for grammar drills, vocabulary, listening and pronunciations exercises, games, electronic dictionaries, etc. The possibility of using the Internet resource is huge. Let us dwell on the methodological aspects of the use of Internet services in the educational process. Internet provides a unique opportunity for students to use authentic texts, listen and communicate with native speakers, i.e. it creates a natural language environment. But how to take advantage of it? The main objective of learning a foreign language is the formation of the communicative competence, all other goals (educational, pedagogical, developing) are realized in the process of implementation of the main goal. Communicative competence in the modern sense of the word involves the formation of the capacity for intercultural interaction. Internet resources can be extremely beneficial in this field.
The Possibilities of the Internet:
• The teacher can choose in advance authentic reading materials on the subject matter of the oral speech;
• it is possible to record audio information (speech of political or public figures, interesting reports of native speakers on various topics);
• to hold an oral discussion of the received e-mail letters from project partners;
• to perform first in groups a discussion, a dispute on a particular problem of the information obtained from Internet resources, and then organize a general discussion of it in the entire class;
• to conduct linguistic analysis of certain communications, whether oral or written utterances of native speakers, e.g.
idioms, proverbs, sayings, neologisms reflecting the specificity of functioning of language in the culture of the people;
• to use at least partially the artistic works of authors of the country of the target language received from the virtual library;
• to use the electronic grammar books and lexical reference books, dictionaries, reference books of cross-cultural
nature, the materials of distance learning courses, available for inclusion in a lesson. It is particularly interesting to use the Internet when working on a project. This allows to create at the lesson of foreign language research creative atmosphere where every student is involved in an active cognitive process on the basis of the methodology of cooperation. But the Internet is used in teaching languages not only as an information support, but for communication (a conversation in real time – chat , correspondence – e-mail) that creates a natural language environment. The participation of students in teleconferencing, chat rooms, which are attended by students from different countries of the world is very interesting and useful opportunity for new contacts and real-life conversation practice. In those discussions, conversations, "free talk" there is not only the exchange of information on a particular issue, but familiarity with some elements of another culture. Another type of work is the use of Internet resources in the form of tests for the control of lexical and grammatical skills. 5For example, the site www.exams.ru offers information about various international examinations in English, different practice tests.
Thus, the use of Internet resources in teaching a foreign language gives the possibility of constant improvement of training materials, increases the level of motivation in learning a foreign language. Educational technology is not yet learned. You can only set the guidelines for it possible use. The creative potential of the teachers will tell the scope of the search, and professionalism will give an impulse for interesting finds and decisions. Now everyone understands that the Internet possesses enormous information capabilities and equally impressive service. The Internet creates a unique opportunity for foreign language learners to use authentic texts, listen to and communicate with native speakers.
Using information resources of the Internet, integrating them into the educational process is helpful in solving variety of didactic problems at the lesson:
• to form skills and abilities of reading, directly using materials of different degree of complexity;
• to improve the ability of listening on the basis of authentic sound texts from a network the Internet;
• to develop the vocabulary, both active and passive, by words of the modern foreign language reflecting a certain stage of development of the culture, social and political structure of society;
• to get acquainted with cultural knowledge including speech etiquette, especially speech behaviour of various people in terms of communication, culture, and traditions of the country of the studied language.
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