Presentation in English language teaching in the context of higher education digitalization

Abstract

The paper is devoted to one of the main multifunctional elements of any foreign language training course–multimedia presentation. The authors describe basic requirements to a presentation, its aims and advantages, consider different types of presentation tasks. Special attention is paid to the analysis of using presentations in their practical experience and feedback from students. The study allowed to examine students’ attitude to presentations considering 5 aspects such as the choice of presentation topics, students’ willingness to do this task, their self-assessment, the level of PC skills, literacy and speech competences. The questionnaire was used to analyze effectiveness of this task in different periods of time (2008-2010, 2018-2020), to prove the influence of computerization of higher education on students’ scientific and academic work, to identify the main difficulties for students in creating presentations and offer possible ways of overcoming them. The intensive use of information technologies contributes to the formation of an intellectually developed creative personality, well-oriented in the information space, ready for self-development and application of this knowledge in their future professional activities.

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