FEATURES AND PROBLEMATICS OF THE TRANSITION TO THE DISTANCE TEACHING OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE

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The need to know at least one foreign language is an important and undoubted factor on the path to success of modern man and professional in their field, given that more and more professionals and scientists seek international work, participate in international conferences. Until recently, foreign language classes were quite traditional, namely held in a real classroom, using traditional teaching methods and tools. But given the epidemic situation in 2020, more and more educational institutions are deciding to switch to blended or distance learning. Distance learning in these terms has become a decent attempt to solve the temporal and spatial constraints of the traditional personal learning. Online learning has been the result of the full adoption of technology as part of our lives. In today's world, the term "distance learning" originated due to needs of society and in a short period of time combined all the benefits of the use of modern technologies in the educational process, namely the use of social networking and multimedia along with traditional methods. Distance learning technologies are many new opportunities for teaching foreign languages that allow even more to expand the range of teaching techniques. This paper reports the issues and problems of transition from the traditional type of studying to the distance learning, as well as its features and difficulties that may arise during the transition. The article also reports the prospects for further use of distance learning. This work also highlights the psychological and pedagogical features that may affect the teacher's performance of their pedagogical activities, as well as problems that may arise during the transition to distance learning. The main methods of teaching a foreign language under distance learning are proposed.