Network Interaction Trends in Higher Linguistic Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the current situation in higher linguistic education and state the socio-historical conditions of network interaction. This study proposes our understanding of the concept of “network interaction in education”, suggests the socio-historical conditions of network interaction development at three levels: the level of society as a whole, the level of education as a field of human activity, the level of direction of training- training of linguists. It highlights major network interaction trends in higher linguistic education: communicative orientation of interaction, globalization and openness, individualization and de-synchronization, variety and variability, polylogue character of interaction. From the outcome of our investigation it is possible to conclude that the higher linguistic education is the most open to the implementation of network interaction. Being aimed at intercultural interaction, involving students and academic staff with a high level of language skills, it gets significant advantages over other Higher education areas in the process of integration into the global educational space.