DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING / LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Traditionally education is centered on sources such as schools, teachers and print media. The learners reached the information sources by enrolling with schools, teachers and libraries. Prior to the digital era, information was not accessible by the majority of people, and even those accessed were unable to obtain current information with respect to today’s context. Nowadays people live when world is moving from an information society to a knowledge society. Thus, education is given the highest priority and brainpower is becoming the most valuable asset of an organization. Advances in digital technology have opened up many avenues of learning. Technology has made information accessible, transmittable from anywhere to all groups of people. Education has reached most parts of the world and ICT has become an integral part of human life. With the revolution of technology in the last century, technology is now available everywhere and is incorporated in many aspects of our life.

The use of technologies and digital devices to widen access to quality education is a phenomenon in full expansion, which invites people to reflect deeply on the future of teaching and learning processes. Modern IT devices and various applications have considerably facilitated language teaching and learning for different purposes. Digitalization in education facilitates access to materials and other resources, but at the same time teachers face new challenges, such as identification of digital resources appropriate to their own teaching contexts, as well as designing and implementing activities appropriate to the techno-pedagogical affordances of the modern foreign language classroom. Needless to say that both teachers and students have to acquaint themselves with the new technology.

Due to increasing demands to practical foreign languages teaching students the article examines possibilities to advance the effectiveness of language teaching by means of up-to-date information technologies. This paper examines the issue of using digital technologies in educational process. The paper also describes the impact of digitalization on learning foreign languages. Nowadays the practice of teaching foreign languages uses a wide range of technical means, both stationary and mobile. The author present a list a list of the most popular digital resources for learning such language as English.

Keywords: foreign languages, educational process, information technologies, multimedia