IT Technology in Speaking Skill Competence Formation

Abstract

Professionally-oriented teaching of foreign languages is based on the use of information and telecommunication technologies in the educational process and their impact on the quality of future specialists training. A modern teacher should give students not only knowledge, but explain how to acquire it independently, how to use the already learned material. It is possible to achieve this goal with the latest technologies, such as webquest. A web-based quest in pedagogy is a problematic task with the elements of a role-playing game that uses information resources of the Internet. This is a site on the Internet, with the help of which students perform a particular study task in a form of submitting material by setting problematic task with future professional elements, to perform which the information resources of the Internet should be used. Webquest can be characterized by two main pedagogical aspects: guarantee of the final result and design of the future educational process by increasing students’ motivation for independent cognitive activity; developing the ability to think, atmosphere of cooperation, studying the virtual socio-cultural environment of the country, the language of which is studied by the students. Creating a problem situation that should motivate the student to stimulate interest to the problem is also the webquest’s task. The webquest evaluation criteria depend on the type of learning tasks that are solved. The assessment summarizes the experience gained by the students during the self development work with the use of webquest technology. The article considers how webquest technology helps forming the language competencies which are necessary for solving professional tasks in foreign language learning.