FACTORS FOR UPDATING TYPES OF ASSESSMENT IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

The article highlights issues based on the necessity for updating the types of assessment in the process of foreign language teaching, using as an example the academic discipline “Foreign language in the professional sphere”. The study infers that under the influence of digitalisation in the educational field and due to the occurrence of new technologies, apparent changes have been noticed in the methods of communicative interaction between the stakeholders of the educational process. The article discusses the factors under which the need to revise or modify existing forms and principles for assessing the results and mastering the competencies is identified. Having the indicated above subject as a field of an experiment, the possibility of introducing a video project-based form for assessing the results of mastering the competencies in the intermediate level of studying is discussed, taking into consideration the principles of communicative approach and the fundamentals of content-language integrated learning.