THE USE of information and communication technologies for foreign language teaching in technical colleges
The article deals with the role of the information and computation technologies (IT) for teaching and learning foreign languages. The purpose of the article is to give some information on the base of the material collected in the technical faculties of some universities and technical colleges in Russia. The author paid the special attention to governmental strategies to stimulate the use of IT in higher education. The article focuses on the experiments in Chemical faculty of Moscow State University, Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics and the Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies.These institutions apply Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (MOODLE) in teaching process. The first experiments are underway. The authors offer the promising measures on the subject.