THE INFLUENCE OF DISTANCE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES ON THE LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY OF THE TEACHER

Abstract

The introduction of modern technologies has an impact not only on the learning process itself in its target and methodological essence, but also entails the transformation of the teacher’s linguistic personality in the context of innovative educational processes. This article discusses the practice of using the distance learning program «Rosetta Stone® Advantage» in the process of teaching foreign languages and its impact on the language personality of the teacher. It is shown that the anthropocentric paradigm is firmly at the center of modern scientific knowledge. The language personality is regarded as a certain type of linguistic identity, functioning in the framework of specific ways to exchange communication information. The emphasis is on the certain scientific approaches and concepts in personological key. The definition of professional-pedagogical discourse, which is considered as a specific communicative action, recorded in written and oral speech, carried out in a certain cognitive and typologically conditioned communicative space. Modern technologies, in particular the distance learning program «Rosetta Stone Advantage» initiate a number of modifications in this space. The role of the teacher, who when using the distance learning program in the learning process acts only as a coordinator of the educational process: its main functions are to adjust the taught subject, advice in the preparation of individual learning paths, in interaction with students through online correspondence, webinars, chats. The authors propose a cognitive-pragmatic model of the language personality of the teacher, pointing out that the vocabulary of didactic communication is viewed as a corpus of the regulations that reflect the teacher’s pedagogical and objective tasks. And interpersonal interaction «teacher-student» is gradually losing its value. This is probably why the use of electronic educational resources in the learning process is currently quite controversial.

Keywords

• higher education
• modern innovative educational technologies
• language personality
• teacher
• integration