ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИЯ ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ: ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ

Abstract

Digitalization in society and education, happening in the last decades and getting fast-track development due to the world pandemic, has controversial character and arouses scientists’ deep interest. This research is aimed at identifying the current problems in the process of linguistic education digitalization in Russia and searching for the ways to solve them. Summarizing the best pedagogical practices in this context allowed to conclude that digitalization of educational process, understood as informative-educational environment development, which includes technical, educational and digital forms of managing educational process, gives wide opportunities for globalization in education and its quality improvement in general, and also great didactic potential of digital technologies in linguistic education in particular. At the same time the problems caused by widespread use of digital technologies in high schools were singled out and analyzed in the research. The changes at the labour market result in new social demands to learning outcome and specialist’s personality, explaining the necessity of prioritized development of their “extraprofessional” competences and soft skills. Herewith, the specifics of digital education are connected with increasing student’s independence and autonomy, at the same time, educational process individualization in digitalization questions about the trajectory of changes in personal and cultural identity, which can exist and develop only in society. Finally, due to the mentioned difficulties and controversies, digitalization in linguistic education is connected with the growth of the teacher’s role in educational process and demands to the level of his / her informational and professional culture, media competence. Content and methodical challenges presented to pedagogics in relation to digitalization of educational process are fixed in this regard.