Olga N. Bakymenko

The proposed article is devoted to the formation of grammatical skills in students of secondary schools when teaching English. At the same time, information technologies are considered as the key means of developing this skill. The relevance of the study is connected, on the one hand, with the general course towards the digitalization of school education, which is indicated in a number of program documents of the Ministry of Education, and on the other hand, with the objective productivity of information technologies, noted by a number of practicing teachers. In the methodology of teaching foreign languages, the skill acts as the top of the didactic pyramid of educational tasks. The grammatical skill acts as one of the most difficult to form. This work aims to develop and determine the effectiveness of a set of exercises using information technology to form grammatical skills when teaching a foreign language in a secondary school. The main method in the proposed study is the method of pedagogical experiment, which includes diagnostic, forming and control stages. In addition, the methods of testing, quantitative and qualitative analysis of its results are used. The study systematizes and analyses the works of domestic and foreign scientists, reflecting a wide range of ideas about the methodology of teaching foreign language grammar, the essence of information technologies, the specific features of their use in the educational process, which constitutes the theoretical significance of the work. The uniqueness of the study lies in the definition of the pedagogical problem and the proposed method of its solution. The analysis of the textbook of one of the educational-methodical complexes on English language from the point of view of work on grammatical material based on information technologies is made, the formation of grammatical skill among students of seventh grades of the basic school is diagnosed, the original set of exercises involving information technologies is developed and the effectiveness of its application in a particular group of schoolchildren is statistically substantiated. The practical significance of the work is connected with the possibility of using the developments proposed in it in the practice of teaching English in various educational institutions.