FOSTERING STUDENTS’ INDEPENDENT WORK WHILE LEARNING ENGLISH ONLINE

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