INTERNET SOCIAL NETWORKS AS AN EFFECTIVE ELECTRONIC EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR FUTURE TRANSLATORS TRAINING

Abstract

The paper discusses that nowadays the Internet ceases to be a tool that only allows to access remote resource. It becomes a resource that solves new pedagogical tasks, allows finding and implementing new training activities and materials. The use of information technologies in teaching practice provides the intensification of the educational process, the essence of which lies in informal communication using audio, video, graphic and text information of all participants of educational process. The social Internet networks can be considered as the consolidation of the Internet communication technologies, consisting of specialized software services: Internet sites, portals for group interaction between people. The introduction of social networks, which are becoming increasingly popular among young people, and their usage for educational purposes, can have a positive impact on the educational services quality, improve the motivation and education quality. The paper confirms Internet social-networks facilitation of online cooperation between teacher and student, teacher and teacher or student and student. Modern distance learning technologies are based on educational environments (platforms), e-learning systems. They are relatively easy to use and help teachers to work and create distance learning courses, e-books, etc. Social-network Internet-environment demonstrates the feasibility of supporting the communication between participants. It typically provides and opens up new fields for assessment such as communication, uploading of content, return of students’ work, administration of student groups, questionnaires, tracking tools, wikis, blogs, chats, forums, etc. on the Internet. According to the results of scientific research about the use of social media technologies in the USA educational process, concluded that first-year students, learning to use Information Communication Technologies, especially social networks, are more successful academically than students of other courses.