THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INDIVIDUAL EDUCATIONAL TRAJECTORIES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN A NON-LANGUAGE UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The article is dedicated to a current problem of improving the quality of higher education through the use of new information and communication technologies (hereinafter ICT). The aim of the study is to reveal the specifics of the resource base for the implementation of foreign-language individual educational trajectory (hereinafter IET) in higher education institutions, in particular MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that it is the first to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the application of the educational portal ed.mgimo.ru in teaching German at the undergraduate level of a non-language university using the method of individual educational trajectory. As a result of the study it is proved that the effectiveness of foreign language teaching in higher education can be increased by combining the traditional format of learning and distance learning, which takes into account the personal characteristics, needs and motives of students and contributes to the development of their foreign language communicative competence.