Information educational environment (IEE) for the formation of vet students’ foreign language competence

Abstract

The process of educational system informatization reflects the achieved level of all social processes organization and is important for many modern professions specialists training. The article necessitates the formation of IT use skills for future vocational education teachers (VET) language learning. The creation of the "Foreign Language - Digital" training course which uses IT tools provides an opportunity to creatively process and present the materials for learning and its results. The IT and IEE potential allows such learning to be applied in various organizational forms and educational activities and be differentiated according to the foreign language competence initial level. The authors systematize and describe some educational IT tools, which allow to perform not only purely linguistic (grammar, syntax etc.) but communicative functions, as well. Also the work makes a review of IT tools use for such educational activity as “translation”, which is important for future modern specialist skills training. The authors consider the significance of the project method, namely communicative projects of collaborative learning, which allows working on students’ future professional situations and problems. Also the authors held a one-term length experiment on using information technologies at studying foreign language. The results of this experiment are represented in the diagram and statistical data analysis.