The use of information and communication technologies in the independent learning activities of students studying a foreign language

The article deals with the computerizing of education that is an integral and important component of the educational processes in the university. In the context of a modern society the people’s ability to self-teaching and self-education is essential that allows them to be required at a today labor market. There are considered the advantages of the use of the Internet and the social networks in the independent work of students while studying a foreign language.