INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY COURSE AT PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The introduction of information and communications technology (ICT) in pedagogical universities of Ukraine has considerably optimized the professor’s preparation for different forms of in-class teaching. The aim of this research is to characterize the range of media resources used during the preparation of the teaching foreign languages methodology course at high-specialized school and universities of Ukraine. The predominant method used to check the effectiveness of ICT was content analysis. The method of psychological experiment served to study the link between ICT and the students’ emotional sphere. An anonymous poll has discovered a considerable number of students showing a positive attitude to online instruments and using those resources very frequently or almost every day.