ORGANIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE STUDENTS’ WORK IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES AT A UNIVERSITY WITH THE HELP OF ICT

Abstract

The article examines possibilities of information and communication technologies for organizing collective and individual work of students for foreign language classes in higher educational institutions. The authors give a comparative analysis of ready-made digital resources, identify opportunities for monitoring and evaluating the students’ progress. The article describes a practical interdisciplinary project – creation of websites by third-year economics students. For the topic studied students created special videos, timelines, glossaries, mental maps, infographics, surveys and other multimedia content to place it on their site. It is concluded that such project work is effective in forming hard and soft skills as well as in improving students’ motivation. Organising and managing the project work of future economists is crucial to integrating new professionals into the international space, as students got the practical experience of interaction with foreign experts (while collecting comments and holding surveys) and learned how to work with academic sources.