Use of video and mass media aids in the classroom

The usage of computer technologies in teaching foreignlanguage

In recent years the problem of application of new information technologies at high school is even more often brought up. It is not only new technical means, but also new forms and methods of teaching, new approach to training process. The main objective of training foreign languages is formation and development of communicative culture of school students, training in practical acquisition of a foreign language.
The task of a teacher consists in creating conditions of practical language acquisition for each pupil, choosing such methods of training which would allow each pupil to show the activity, the creativity. Modern pedagogical technologies such as training in cooperation, design technique, usage of new information technologies, the Internet - resources help to realize personal focused approach in training, provide an individualization and differentiation of training taking into account abilities of children, their level of proficiency, tendencies, etc.
Use of computer at foreign language lessons helps in solution of different didactic problems such as:

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  improving pronunciation;
  
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  formulating and developing skills and abilities of reading;
  
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  improving abilities of writing;
  
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  enriching the lexicon of learners;
  
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  training grammar;
  
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  forming steady motivation of studying foreign language
  

Possibilities of usage the Internet resources are huge. The Internet creates conditions for receiving any necessary information for pupils and teachers which is in every spot on the globe: regional geographic material, news from life of youth, article from newspapers and magazines, necessary literature, etc.
At work an object is set - to bring a technique of teaching a foreign language at school into accord with development of modern information technologies. It is possible to solve a number of didactic problems by means of the Internet at foreign language lessons: to form skills and abilities of reading, using materials of a global network; to improve abilities of written language of school students; to fill up lexicon of pupils; to form at school student’s steady motivation of studying a foreign language. Besides, the course paper is directed on studying of opportunities of Internet technologies for expansion of an outlook of school students, to adjust and support business connections and contacts with the contemporaries in the foreign language -speaking countries.
Pupils can take part in testing, in quizzes, competitions, Academic Olympic Games held on the Internet to correspond with contemporaries from other countries, to participate in chats, videoconferences, etc.
Communicating in the true language environment is real on the Internet; pupils appear in the real life situations. Involved in the solution of a wide range of significant, realistic, interesting and achievable tasks, school students are trained spontaneously and adequately to react to them that stimulates creation of original statements, but not sample manipulation with language formulas.
Paramount significance is used to understand and transfer the contents and expression of sense that motivate studying of structure and the dictionary of a foreign language which achieve this purpose. Thus, the attention of pupils concentrates on use of forms, and training in grammar is carried out indirectly, in direct communication, excepting studying of grammatical rules. The computer is loyal to a variety of student’s answers: it doesn’t accompany work of pupils as laudatory comments which develops their independence but creates favorable social psychological atmosphere at a lesson, giving them self-confidence that is an important factor for development of their identity.
The development of education is organically connected with increase of level of its information potential today. This characteristic feature in many respects defines both the direction of evolution of the education, and the future of all society.
The most successful orientation in world information space requires mastering pupil’s information culture, and also computer and screen culture as the priority in information search on the Internet.
As information system, the Internet offers users variety of information and resources. The basic set of services can include:

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  e-mail (e-mail);
  
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  teleconferences;
  
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  videoconferences;
  
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  possibility of publication of an own information, creation of an own homepage (homepage) and its placement on the Web server; - access to information resources:
  
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  help catalogs
  
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  search engines
  
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  conversation in a network
  

These resources can be actively used at a lesson.
Mastering communicative and cross-cultural competence is impossible without communication practice, and usage of resources of the Internet at a lesson of a foreign language in this sense is simply irreplaceable: virtual environment of the Internet allows being beyond temporary and spatial, giving an opportunity of authentic communication with real interlocutors on subjects, actual for both parties to users. However, it is impossible to forget that the Internet is only a supportive technical tool of training, and for achievement of optimum results it is necessary to integrate its use into process of a lesson competently.
In addition to work using skills of reading and speaking, it is possible to fill up a lexicon. For this purpose, it is necessary to suggest pupils to make entries, being guided by the read information.