Facilitating students’ information and communication culture when teaching a foreign language

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the development of students’ information and communication culture through foreign language learning. Presently, people tend to deal with technology and multimedia on a daily basis. All spheres of our life have an impact of information and communication technologies. They determine the necessity to gain information from different sources, making use of media devices at any time and from any place of the world. It is reflected in teaching future specialists at universities. Modern education today is focused on training a qualified high-level worker, who will be ready for continuing professional development, applying the skill to use information effectively rather than the subject knowledge he received at university. Thus, it’s crucially important for a young specialist to be able to work with information. It involves the skills of his studying the media resources, examining the information, drawing on critical thinking, deciding on the relevant details. The ability to differentiate between the significant facts and secondary ones as well as the ability to determine priority information are the key skills for a university graduate. The article presents a pedagogical experiment concerning the development of students’ information and communication culture through foreign language teaching.