Flipped learning technology for teaching a foreign language at a technical university (in English)

The article explains why the flipped learning is becoming very popular in the modern conditions of educational development. Since the article has a practical orientation, the authors compare the traditional and ‘flipped' approaches to learning across several criteria: the role of the student, the role of the teacher, the role of ICT in the learning process, the methods used and the structure of the lesson. The article focuses on the importance of students' independent work. A description is given of the types of educational activities used by teachers of the Department of Foreign Languages to improve the quality of learning a foreign language by students in flipped classrooms. At the end of the article conclusions are presented on the results of the active use of the flipped learning as an effective form of organizing language education in higher education in the modern conditions. The leading method in the study of this problem was the questionnaire method conducted among undergraduate students of correspondence department.