Keyword: «иностранный язык»

The article deals with the concept of interactivity, the opportunities of creating the interactive information space in the educational process. The role of interactive educational techniques in passing from the cognitive paradigm to the competence one is noted. The application of modern information technologies as a means of optimizing the educational process is considered. The author shares her experience of organizing and guiding an interactive foreign language lesson in a group of non-linguistic students. She marks some prospects of further research in the field under study.

The author believes that one of the ways of intensification of educational activity of students, enhancing their motivation to learn foreign language and educational activity and creativity is the competence approach in teaching foreign languages. The article defines the most effective methods and techniques of teaching students a foreign language from the position of a competence approach.

In given article the author would like to pay attention to transformation of lecturer’s role and place in educational process and assessment process, connected with changes in high educational system and also makes a little retrospective journey in history. The basis of the article is the analysis of duties of a modern educational specialist. The term "an educational specialist" is used as universal naming of a person, carrying out pedagogical activity for the purpose of making distance from an educational institution.