Keyword: «distance learning course»

The article is devoted to the use of blended learning format in the course of English language methodology for future English language teachers. The actual character of the research topic is explained by digitalization of modern education on the whole, and precisely the pre-service teacher training system, where the Information and Communication Technology competence of teachers has been focused on recently. Moreover, the combination of traditional lectures and seminars with distance learning online enables to use time for students’ self-studies more effectively thanks to considering an individual tempo and strategy of tasks completion, quick feedback and learning more about international pedagogical experience. The aim of the research is to choose and describe results of implementing concrete ways of blended learning format application to the course of English language teaching in the pedagogical university. The research was conducted with future teachers of English who were studying the course of English methodology during the semester at the pedagogical university. Judging by the generalization of advanced pedagogical experience, observation, survey, tests, using statistical methods of results analysis, we singled out the following actual ways of implementing blended learning, such as students’ taking part in some modules of the international English language teaching online course, participation in webinars, creating online tests for schoolchildren and their work in the specially designed university course in Moodle. The theoretical importance of the article is in proving the necessity to combine such ways of students’ self-studies online with traditional lectures and seminars in the classroom using the example of English language teaching course for future teachers. The practical importance of the research is realized in the possibilities to apply the above mentioned ways of blended instruction to other different educational contexts in the system of professional education.