Tools for Electronic Language Pedagogy in the Training System of a Future Primary School Teacher

Abstract

The article clarifies the fact that the creation and use of new software for information and communication technologies in order to improve the speech quality of education is actual. After the analysis and synthesis of scientific and methodological ideas, the genesis of electronic language pedagogy (ELP) was determined as a science, and the main components of its tools were also determined. The subject of the research is the didactic conditions of the use of electronic tools in the language pedagogical training of a future primary school teacher. The aim of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of the use of electronic language pedagogy as an effective innovative scientific and methodological approach in the training of a future primary school teacher. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is the classical and modern heritage of world and national pedagogy and research on the problems of educational informatization. The following complex of research methods has been applied: theoretical analysis and synthesis of literary sources, electronic publications, computer and network resources of educational purpose, systematic analysis of the essence of ELP, components of its tools, methods of expert assessments, questionnaires, interviews (190 people took part in them) in the process of identifying priority directions of electronic tools’ implementation in professional training, a method of observing the educational process of training a future primary school teacher in the course of work with electronic learning tools. The authors have proved that the main resource components of e-language pedagogy are various means of communication (chats, forums, e-mail, blogs), educational, scientific, informational, reference materials, personal sites of lecturers, electronic textbooks, electronic educational-methodical complexes. Therefore, according to the conducted observations, the use of components of electronic language pedagogy stimulates students' interest in mastering their specialty, helps them to understand professional issues and to realize themselves in the educational process.