DIDACTIC CONDITIONS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION OF STUDENT’S INDEPENDENT WORK IN LEARNING ENGLISH

• Валентина Коваленко

  Луцький національний технічний університет

Training of qualified, creative, effective specialists capable to enlarge their professional knowledge and to use it in their work is the main task of modern higher school. The country needs new professionals with modern knowledge and competences. Nowadays it is more important for a young person to have learnt how to learn than to be taught. The tendency of the development of modern education is transition from the “education for the whole life” principle to the “lifelong learning” principle. Student’s independent work (learning) is the form of educational procedure organization that is greatly needed at the present time. Its introduction into educational procedure becomes integral part of every subject study. It involves responsibility for one’s own learning. A shift is made from teaching to learning. The success of the work depends on the following conditions: personal involvement and motivation; individual training; a feeling of progression; teacher’s help and guidance; educational materials, methods and tasks; testing and evaluation of the work carried out. The article deals with the issues considering possibilities of Google Classsroom service as an additional means of learning English independently. The author analyses and presents language learning activities of the service for student’s independent work, namely for learning and training lexical material of the English language. By means of the service students receive assignments in different language activities and have to fulfill them up to some deadline period. Service interface is adapted for work with various mobile devices, so students can use it whenever and wherever they like. Among educators and learners online teaching is accepted as a viable component in teaching and learning. It is easy to have the Internet connection anywhere. Global system gives us unlimited possibilities and resources to provide general didactic principles for ensuring student’s effective independent work.

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