Requirements for Project work

•Active attendance to all lecture and seminar sessions (compulsory)

•Write their names to the participant list, ask questions, give comments

•Choose a new topic

•Carry out project successfully in a team of 2-4 persons

•Project plan

•Project plan presentation

•Project results

•Final report

Computer started to be used in teaching foreign languages from 1954. The first research concerning usage of computer in teaching foreign languages appeared since this time. CALL- Computer -Assisted Language Learning. Theoretical problems of implementing computer in teaching process became the subject of a new area in science such as Computer Linguadidactics. It is an independent trend of Didactics and Methodology.

The development of computer technologies in teaching foreign languages made the usage of computer programs widely spread. Computer programs fastened the teaching process and initially had a drilling character. The rising requirements to the computer programs increased their qualities and made possible to improve not only language habits but speech skills.

According to the definition of the notion of ‘the computer program’ given by Sadikova A.K. computer program is a mean of teaching, which has the features of communicative model of teaching, corresponds the aims of teaching and formed types of speech activities, oriented to the definite level of knowledge and skills of students, satisfies students’ intellectual and emotional needs, stimulates different types of cognitive activities. Computer program can help every pupil to find the most comfortable way of learning foreign language.

The psychological aspects of using computer programs in teaching foreign languages are as follows:

- Interactive means of teaching helps to keep interest for learning foreign languages (game like character of learning foreign languages, comfortable way of work with the computer, etc.)

- Usage of computer helps to overcome fear of public speaking to shy and not confident pupils

- Computer programs give an additional material to those pupils who are coping with the learning material faster than other pupils. And on the contrary they help weak pupils to revise the material if it is not clear.

The methodological aspects of using computer programs in teaching foreign languages are as follows:

- Usage of computer programs allows pupils to plan and organize learning process individually

- To have immediate correction of mistakes, which is sometimes impossible due to the lack of time

- Correction of spelling

- Opportunity to revise exercise and get explanations to it the necessary quantity of times

- Assessment of your language work.

There are following types of computer programs in teaching foreign languages:

1) Multimedia computer programs for integrated learning of foreign languages and development of the main speech skills; E.g.Английский язык. «Путь к совершенству» (English Language. Way to Success.)