Adaptive technology in teaching foreign languages to adult learners

The article deals with individual characteristics of learning foreign languages by adult students of evening and part-time departments, as well as, selection of adaptive technologies in terms of these characteristics. We have analyzed the researches of andragogists and methodists, which reveal psychophysiological characteristics of memory, thought, attention, emotions in adult stage. Social and psychological conditions have the great importance in ability of adults to take a new social role of «a student» with his own aims in learning foreign languages. Adaptive methods of both Russian and foreign researches include communicative approach, audiovisual method (AVM), individual teaching techniques, control-correcting method of learning, role-playing games, teaching techniques (ADV -adapting-development-variation). So, we worked out the model of teaching adults based on adaptive educational technologies with consideration for individual style of learning a foreign language.