SOME ASPECTS OF MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

The article is focused on some of the issues encountered in using multimedia technologies in foreign languages teaching. The process of the advent of ICTs is particularly relevant in the period of rapid informatisation of society. The article presents a review of the findings of some of the Russian scholars engaged in the research on the application of multimedia technologies in foreign language teaching in a non-linguistic environment and covers the way multimedia technologies can be applied in the teaching of phonetics, grammar, and vocabulary. The focus is on one particular program, i.e. iSping.

Keywords

• multimedia technology
• e-learning
• foreign language
• e-textbook
• isping