MAIN TENDENCIES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE DISTANCE TESTING IN A NON-LINGUISTICS UNIVERSITY
The article defines the main tendencies of distance foreign language testing for full-time, correspondence and distance students of a non-linguistics university and also for school-leavers who are going to take their entrance exam in a foreign language. The classification of the types of distance testing is suggested. Their advantages and disadvantages and also the perspectives for further development are determined. Distance testing is viewed both as a means of control and as a part of digitalization of foreign language training for non-linguistics students. Further enhancement of its potentialities may be giving the learners several chances for distance testing, creating specialized programs for work at common for all and later on individual mistakes in the classroom under the teacher’s guidance and independently in the University and beyond and also testing programs which are simultaneously exercises in different kinds of speech activity. The Python programs connected with oral speech recognition are of special interest.