DIGITAL MEDIA AS A MEAN FOR THE PERSONALIZED TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

• Тетяна Терещенко

  РДГУ

The article substantiates the importance of using of the digital media for the personalized teaching of foreign languages. Future learning and work situations require from the students new kinds of knowledge. The digital media are being used not only to make the lesson content more interesting and to supplement it with up-to-date information, but also to a great extent with a purpose of the personalization of the process of teaching. The term  personalized learning personalised learning is a potential approach to meeting future educational needs, it implies priority of the needs of individual students when developing curricula and learning materials. Students work at their own pace and the teachers can use a variety of online materials to prepare their lessons more efficiently and better customize them to the needs of the learners. The role of the teacher changes, but it is still of central importance in the learning process. Depending on the characteristics of the learning domains, some tasks and environments support individual work, while others will support a community of learners working on the same task. Mastering the characteristics of these tasks requires from the tutors a sound knowledge base. The teacher defines the learning goal and encourages learners to reach this goal by designing learning processes. Technology are used to enable students the access to online materials and additional resources and to allow them, as active learners, to assess and monitor their progress. In introducing personalized learning it is important that digital media should be employed not just for the sake of following the latest technology trend, but for a certain purpose of the lesson. In the article it is proved that the teacher's guidance and systematic involvement of the student in planning of the learning path are prerequisites for the exhaustive and effective use of digital media.

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