PECULIARITIES OF DISTANCE SUPPORT OF STUDYING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WHEN OBTAINING MASTER’S DEGREE
Popularity of information technologies and the level of their development in modern society leads to the necessity of including remote technologies in the educational process, in particular, implementation of distance support of full-time education. Development of distance support is carried out taking into account the main characteristics of distance learning (flexibility, modularity, parallelism, long-range, mass, profitability) as well as special requirements for the teacher of the discipline (knowledge of information technology, methodological aspects of the development of distance learning elements) and students (high level of self-discipline and motivation).Organization of distance support retains positive aspects of the traditional training system, for example, direct contact with the teacher, as well as actualizes the advantages of distance learning format, which can significantly improve the quality of the educational process. This study examines the distance support of the course "Business foreign language", developed for Masters of the first year of study (KNRTU). Tasksarepresentedonthewebsite moodle.kstu.ru.Since this discipline is aimed at the development and improvement of language competence of students, the study is focused on training lexical material. Creation of distance support is necessary because of the insufficient number full-time classes, a long break in the study of a foreign language after studying in the undergraduate, different levels of knowledge of students in the same group, low level of basic knowledge of students. The presented course consists of 4 modules, the choice of which varies depending on the learning objectives and the specialty of the group. The structure of each module is based on guidelines for the creation of electronic educational resources: guidelines for students, introduction of new vocabulary, training, f video resources, assessment, self-testing and additional tasks for training communication skills.