Abstract
Higher education curricula are developed based on creating conditions for implementing many professional and universal competencies. In Russia, one of the significant competencies for a modern specialist is business communication in oral and written forms in the Russian language and a foreign language. Therefore, teaching students to write in a foreign language is one of the modern requirements for young specialists’ professional training. This article aimed to study the tools of online communication that are used in teaching foreign languages. The article presents the results of an empirical study and analysis of factors of application of online communication technologies in foreign languages teaching, synchronous and asynchronous means used in online learning, and the advantages of integrating online communication tools into the educational process of teaching a foreign language. The study of the advantages and disadvantages of educational platforms is based on an analysis of information and online communication technologies used in the educational process. Based on the example of teaching a foreign language, the article shows how online communication platforms are involved in the educational process. Furthermore, the teachers’ and students’ opinions are presented on how online platforms are convenient. The survey involved 928 first-year students and 76 foreign language teachers of Volgograd State University (Volgograd), Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod (Nizhny Novgorod), Tomsk Polytechnic University (Tomsk), Ural Federal University, named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (Ekaterinburg). It was revealed that the integration of online communication tools has positive effects on the formation and development of written communication skills.
Highlights
40% of students and 45% of teachers believe that teaching a foreign language using online platforms is a quality education
This article presents the result of an empirical study and analysis of factors of application of online communication technologies in foreign languages teaching, synchronous and asynchronous means used in online learning, and the advantages of integrating online communication tools into the educational process of teaching a foreign language
Online communication tools are an effective tool for developing new forms and methods of teaching foreign languages
Summary
The sustainable development of a society assumes that education is the foundation for creating a more sustainable society of people and integrating sustainable development in the education system at all its levels. Education is both a socio-cultural interaction between a teacher and a student and joint information and communication activities, which are transferred to the electronic environment thanks to information and digital technologies. Education sustainability allows people to acquire the values, competencies, skills, and knowledge necessary to participate in social activities. One of the significant competencies of a modern specialist is the ability to communicate in oral and written forms in Russian and foreign languages. An important task is to train students to communicate in a foreign language in writing, both in the academic and professional fields
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