Abstract:
The paper reveals the role of students' independent work in studying
the discipline "Foreign Language for Specific Purposes" in the distance
learning mode and its role in their foreign language competence formation.
In a higher education institution, the objectives of students'
independent work in a foreign language are to develop skills in working with
foreign language professionally oriented sources of information, to develop
oral communication skills on general and professional topics and to achieve a
certain level of foreign language communicative competence; to prepare
students for independent work on a foreign language after graduation.
Students' independent work is successful only when definite topics are
studied sequentially, the student is provided with the necessary teaching
materials, and the instructor controls the independent work results.Correctly selected tasks for independent work are performed with the
help of information technologies and achieve such goals as deepening and
systematizing knowledge on a particular topic, developing skills and abilities
of professional foreign language communication, and learning to work
independently. Such tasks increase the learning motivation level and
stimulate interest in the speciality and learning a foreign language for
specific purposes
