Keyword: «learner centered approach»

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of organizing work in small groups while teaching a foreign language. This kind of work is viewed under the consideration of a learner centered approach. Special attention is given to the necessity of using the method of a role-play in small groups while teaching a foreign language. The article contains original exercises stimulating the level of motivation with the learners and facilitating the quality of education.

The problem is that the education system does not meet the challenges of the modern digital economy, which requires competent specialists who are able to use mobile devices, navigate a huge flow of information in order to structure, analyze and select the necessary information. Training with the use of distance education technologies in the framework of distance education in the context of a person-oriented approach is a likely solution to this problem. The aim of the study is to help improve the effectiveness of teaching university students through the use of a learner centered approach in distance learning. The learner centered approach is considered to be the dominant paradigm of modern education, in which the interaction of learning subjects is aimed at the professional growth of future specialists. New approaches to education require a new generation of teachers who know the techniques of a learner centered approach, on the one hand, and are able and ready to use distance technologies and develop interactive educational materials, on the other. In this regard, special training / retraining / advanced training of university teachers seems to be appropriate. The study used a personal approach that recognizes the individual as the subject, goal, and result of learning, and an anthropological approach that takes into account data from all human sciences. The main results of the study were: comprehensive analysis of the literature on the research topic; comprehensive consideration of the issue of training at a university using distance learning technologies; identification of advantages and disadvantages of using a learner centered approach in distance learning, the study of the conditions of distance learning use at the university. The theoretical significance consists in identifying the differences between the learner centered approach and the so-called traditional approach in teaching and the differences between the teacher of traditional and distance learning systems; elements of the distance learning teacher's work. Practical significance is in the use of research findings and previously developed e-courses and manuals in the educational process.