MODERN METHODS OF TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE POST-PANDEMIC PERIOD

Abstract

This article analyzes a situation related to the problem of teaching a foreign language in higher education at the present time. In the context of the increasing threat of the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-2019), a forced transition to a distance learning format was carried out, in March – July 2020, teachers were forced to develop a remote educational environment that would be aimed at adapting all students to distance learning and distance pedagogy in general. The massive forced introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) into the educational process of universities in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated some pre-existing problems and attracted attention to their research. The work is based on the results of the analysis of researchers’ views on the problems of distance e-education, presented in publications related to the period preceding the pandemic and to the present time, when the pandemic has not yet ended. Options for combining traditional, distance and electronic learning technologies are discussed. Conclusions are drawn about the need to introduce the methodology of mixed foreign language teaching. Results of the research show that mixed foreign language teaching will help students become good specialists in demand both in our country and abroad.