Keyword: «formal education»

The paper deals with questions concerning the organization of art and technological training in the situation of informal education; experience including application of information technologies and network services in the work of the Center work.

The article deals with the problem of learning, improving and maintaining a high level of foreign language proficiency by adults who have completed formal general and vocational education in appropriate educational institutions in the process of informal foreign language acquisition in the context of life-long education. The authors provide an analytical review of previously published scientific papers on the topic, present the results obtained in the course of empirical part of the research work, thus confirming high didactic potential of informal foreign language learning, as well as possibility of achieving the highest level of language proficiency provided that self-organized informal education is combined with formal and nonformal forms of educational activity while being at school and university, which lays the foundation for further self-study in the field of foreign language acquisition in the long term.