EMERGENCY REMOTE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS MANAGEMENT AS A TERTIARY TEACHING ISSUE

The article discusses some features of teaching a foreign lan- guage in the context of an emergency remote shift, that is teaching unplanned and urgently switched from offline to online. It is likely that this format will keep a foothold in future to some extent, so it is worth paying attention to the development of teaching methods for such new specific contexts. The author examines such teaching from the perspectives of the general theory of management and the psychology of learning, incorporating the computer- mediated one. The purpose of the article is to propose an approach to op- timizing “classroom work” in an emergency remote format. The problem of management in a remote foreign language session is considered as a problem of teacher’s understanding of the entire focuses of pedagogical attention and selective intervention on those that need to be adjusted at the moment. Based on the generalization of the author’s own observations, the experience of teaching a foreign language under remote conditions, as well as the analysis of modern scientific research literature and a questionnaire survey of students, a conclusion was made about the productivity of using the basic concepts and provisions of the management theory in relation to the novel nonconventional conditions of language teaching. The role of the educator is similar to that of a manager developing successful pedagogical strategies, some of which are recommended in this paper.