SOCIAL NETWORKS AS AN INNOVATIVE RESOURCE FOR TEACHING SPECIALTY ENGLISH TO AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITIES STUDENTS
Keywords:
English language teaching, Internet space, social virtual networks, motivation boost, students of non-linguistic universities.Abstract
The article is devoted to the use of Internet technologies in teaching non-linguistic university students a foreign language. It has been shown that the use of the Internet space in the learning process has a number of positive aspects: social networks for students with different levels of language competence do not cause fear and rejection when using them; they raise motivation to learn a foreign language, expand vocabulary, improve knowledge of the grammar of the language studied. The article considers a number of features of work in the Internet space, analyzes the role of the teacher in organizing this type of work. The result of the work is the statement of necessity of using social virtual networks as an integral attribute of modern educational process.
