Experimental work on using new information technologies in the process of learning a foreign language

New multimedia technologies give a high effect of teaching a foreign language if they are supported by advanced teaching methods.

The main types of work with a personal computer (PC) in English lessons can be divided into two groups: the use of educational and cognitive programs on CD and the creation of programs in various applications by the teacher himself with further use in the classroom when explaining the material or when working out and checking it.

The use of educational and cognitive programs on CD is the most affordable way to use a computer both in the classroom and outside the classroom.

Language acquisition through play is one of the basic principles of the learning system. Various multimedia games help expand vocabulary, introduce you to English grammar, teach you to understand speech by ear, and write correctly.

Multimedia capabilities allow you to listen to speech in the target language, adapting it in accordance with your level of perception, and the regulation of the sound speed allows you to break phrases into separate words, in parallel comparing the pronunciation and spelling of words. Using a microphone and automatic pronunciation control allows you to correct your phonetic skills.

Each program contains a task, the desire to solve which creates a positive motivation for learning. The assimilation of educational material occurs without any outside motivation.

To work with the whole class, programs are used that assume the possibility of children's participation in the learning process. The teacher works at the keyboard, and the students jointly discuss the material that is displayed on the screen. Students during such a lesson are divided into groups where they work together, and the teacher, analyzing the conclusions made by them, enters the result into a computer.

Among the most successful programs of this type, it should be noted Triple Play Plus (Multimedia Teacher 3), released back in 1997. With its help, you can teach children listening comprehension, moreover, they learn to read, pronounce correctly at three levels, which makes it possible for the teacher to compare (in the presence of a microphone) the speech of students with the standard, as well as assimilate the analyzed voice to the characteristics of the speaker (choice - man / woman / child). The most successfully used part of the program is the physical description. Students are invited to create a composite of the person represented. With the help of a mouse or a microphone, you can assemble a portrait and work out all the vocabulary to describe the appearance. For a more complete development of the topic, the program has other interesting options for tasks and games. Performing an assignment on a drawing, which is a mosaic of parts of the human body, an extensive vocabulary is worked out. This disc contains material to describe the dwelling. With its help, prepositions are worked out. Students should find cards or household items located in the room (kitchen). The disc contains the following topics: Food and Drink;

Numbers: Home and Office: Places and Transportation; People; Activities. There are three levels for each topic.

Among the most widely known programs on CD is the "Professor Higgins" CD recommended by the RF Ministry of Education. The program is designed for individual student work in phonetics and grammar. This disc has found application in the following types of work:

• -    Practicing phonetics (with a microphone) at the initial stage of training ..

• -    Setting the pronunciation of proverbs tongue twisters (with a microphone).

• -    Individual test on the studied grammatical topics, which vary in level of difficulty, allowing you to work out the same grammatical material with students of different grades, taking into account their preparation.

Euro Talk discs have, as stated, three levels: Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced. They are used for individual material development. The most interesting is the opportunity to issue students with an “international certificate”, since when a certain number of points is collected, the program (if there is a printer) prints a certificate for the surname entered into the program, even with the signatures of the leaders of the Euro Talk group. It is convenient to use this disk in the early stages of training, first with the strongest students in the group.

At the senior stages, the Learn to Speak English program (2 CD) was successfully used for a comprehensive development of vocabulary topics. The discs, consisting of 30 lesson topics, have a wide range of dialogues, exercises, games on these topics, as well as videos about US cities. Moreover, the teacher can demonstrate video clips with or without English subtitles. When using this program for two or three lessons, you can comprehensively work out the existing topics.

The use of training programs on CD in the process of teaching a language is the simplest, which does not require large expenses and serious preparation. Any teacher who knows how to work in the Windows operating system will be able to cope with them without any problems. 1

The specificity of the subject of foreign language determines the active and appropriate use of the computer in the classroom. The leading component of the learning content of the foreign language is teaching various types of speech activities: speaking, listening, reading, writing. A training computer program is a simulator that organizes the student's independent work, controls it and creates conditions under which students independently form their knowledge, which is especially valuable, because knowledge obtained in a finished form very often passes by their consciousness and does not remain in their memory.

Self-creation of programs requires more serious preparation. They can meet a wide variety of requests. It is here that the individuality of a person, his vision of the material, manifests itself. These programs can be the main help in the work on teaching foreign languages. The teacher creates a presentation, taking into account specific students, their abilities, thus, student-centered learning is carried out.

The use of presentations in the classroom makes it possible to animate, change and highlight the most significant elements using color, font, tilt, size. So, for example, when explaining the formation of questions in English, students see how to gradually rebuild a sentence from a narrative to an interrogative one. If necessary, you can repeat this or that stage. In addition, photos, diagrams or tables can be added to the presentation, which further enhances the impact. With sufficient experience, creating a presentation in Microsoft Power Point takes an average of one to three hours, depending on the complexity of the material. In addition to Microsoft Power Point, teaching materials for use in the classroom can be created in Microsoft Word. Documents and templates are used successfully in teaching practice to test memorization of vocabulary. The presence of a speller at the computer in this case is not a facilitating factor, but an auxiliary means of teaching spelling correctness, as it enhances the processes of memorizing the visual image of lexical units.

Summarizing the experience of using a computer and multimedia technologies in foreign language lessons and after school hours, we can conclude:

• -    multimedia technologies accelerate the learning process:

• -    they contribute to a sharp increase in student interest in the subject;

• -    improve the quality of assimilation of the material;

• -    allow you to individualize the learning process;

• -    make it possible to avoid subjectivity of the assessment.

The programs created by the teacher himself are not designed for any abstract student, but for those specific children whom the teacher teaches.

Thus, the introduction of computer technology creates the preconditions for the intensification of the educational process. They allow in practice to use psychological and pedagogical developments, providing a transition from mechanical assimilation of knowledge to mastering the ability to independently acquire new knowledge. Computer technologies contribute to the disclosure, preservation and development of trainees' personal qualities.

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