Digital platforms and tools used in the system of teaching English

Abstract

Technogenic educational environment provided by means of Zoom, Skype, Webinar и Discord finds a wide application nowadays. The relevance of the paper is explained by new conditions and challenges faced by participants in the educational process in connection with the pandemic of the coronavirus infection Covid-19, which has reached a global scale. The new way of contact work and control of the educational environment revealed some problems. The purpose of this article is to identify significant, in the opinion of the authors, the digital platforms and tools used in the system of teaching English, to describe the advantages and disadvantages of the most popular of them from the point of view of teachers and students. According to the authors’ point of view, such digital platforms as Zoom, Skype, Webinar и Discord are characterized by similar features including audio and visual contact, communication in chats, as well as opposing ones, e.g. limit of the free access, functions of video recording, waiting hall, calendar integration, etc. In the process of teaching English, cooperation and control obtain a personality-oriented nature, which results in increasing the motivation of students for independent and distance learning.

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“…Los resultados obtenidos son consistentes con lo obtenido en investigaciones previas, en las que se ha demostrado la importancia de las herramientas virtuales para el aprendizaje de los estudiantes, tal es el caso del trabajo de Vonog et al (2021), quienes demostraron que el uso de plataformas digitales y herramientas en enseñanza virtual produjo la apertura a nuevos cambios en la actitud del estudiante, al sentirse más motivados ya que experimentan la versatilidad durante la lección de los docentes y controlar su formación al ser autónomos de su propio aprendizaje. Lo anterior lo concluyeron mediante el registro de indicadores en del progreso de los estudiantes en términos de un enfoque centrado en el alumno, de allí que las clases desarrolladas en un entorno digital permite implementar una variedad de formas en la retroalimentación en el sistema de enseñanza del inglés.…”

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“…The introduction of digital platforms leads to wider applications of internet technologies, such integration of social networks, massive online courses, and others in the education environment (Vonog et al, 2021). In addition, the development of technologies also forces educators to use various platforms to make the learning process runs attractively and innovatively because learners and educators also need to leap to the new coming era where technologies influence all life domains.…”