USE OF THE OPEN-SOURCE LEARNING PLATFORM MOODLE IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES TO STUDENTS OF NON-LINGUISTIC SPECIALITIES

Socio-economic problems of reforms in Russia have caused a need for better training of undergraduates through updating higher education technologies and changing outdated forms of training into advanced technologies and models. The increasing need for specialists with professional foreign-language communicative competence makes the subject "Foreign Language" one of the main ones in the formation of professional mobility. The use of modular object-oriented dynamic learning platform Moodle allows improving the efficiency of the process of teaching foreign language to students of non-linguistic specialities within the limited amount of classroom time. This platform provides broad opportunities for communication and interaction between teachers and students for the mutual solution of tasks and problems, creates conditions for organization of active training based on personal characteristics of each student, and gives an opportunity to implement the content of education by providing students with an extensive educational and methodological resource base.

The research presents the results of practical use of Moodle in the process of teaching foreign languages to students of non-linguistic specialities at Minin State Pedagogical University of Nizhny Novgorod. The e-learning methodological complexes are developed according to the requirements of Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education for implementation of the communicative, personality-oriented and competence-based approaches and reflect the requirements of the score-rating system. The paper also reveals the advantages of distance learning with use of computer technology.