Professionally-Oriented English Training of Future International Relations Specialists with the Introduction of Information and Communication Technologies

Abstract

The current research is aimed at analyzing modern problematicity of professionally-oriented English training of future International Relations specialists with the introduction of information and communication technologies that is vital issue requiring a complex and multilevel consideration; it is a response to the noticeable demand of state and business structures for highly qualified specialists in terms of establishing, developing and bringing to a new level of partnership and communication between subjects of international relations and law with different structures and functions as well. Purpose. The objective of the research is to examine and evaluate the impact of ICT on professionally-oriented English learning styles of the university students majoring in International Relations based on a system of theoretical and research methods. Results. Professionally-oriented English training of future International Relations specialists with the introduction of information and communication technologies is primarily characterized by multifunctionality, efficiency, productivity, intensity, students’ possibility of quick and effective creative self-realization, availability of personal educational trajectory. Learning process, based on distance learning, is multifaceted, mobile and situation-oriented. Learning a foreign language (blended learning, case technology, e-learning, flipped learning, etc.) is a time-consuming process. ICT are viewed as the introduction of a complex of programs for managing learning process at higher education establishments, the creation of a single information and communication learning space (integrated, multifaceted, resource-intensive) for higher education, the development of integrated occupations, project activities, as well as distance learning, network interactions.