Media technologies in the english lesson as a technical tool and media education

Abstract

While presenting at English language lessons in ordinary Karakalpak schools, you can often see students sitting passively at desks and trying to speak only when the teacher calls them. Due to the fact that most students do not have the opportunity to speak foreign language outside the classroom, learning English turns into memorization of grammatical forms and vocabulary, exercises in translation from Karakalpak into English and vice versa. With the spread of new information technologies, teachers have received opportunity use various media for enrichment language environment of their class. If in the 80s of the last century in the teacher’s arsenal foreign language were audio recordings and educational TV shows (language labs in special schools and language departments of universities), and at the end o f 90s a n d the beginning of XXI century on helping teachers computer CD-ROMs, video, satellite TV and the Internet came into our life