Integration of Interactive Media Into Foreign Language Learning to Support Efficiency of Study Process

Abstract

Contemporary society is actively engaged into technology innovations due to their multi-purposeful usage for personal, professional and educational reasons. Many new terms defining information communication technologies appear but the paper focuses on the interactive media, which may be considered as an integral part of the phenomenon. It is aimed to analyze and discuss the possibilities of integration of interactive media into language learning process to support the efficiency of the study process taking into consideration the needs and achievements of students. The lectures organized with traditional teaching material are getting old-fashioned gradually; therefore, new trends appear in the education process and technologies have to be successfully integrated by the teachers working in higher education institutions. Currently life pace is extremely fast, and rapid changes influence the life of young people who want to be well-educated and prepared for the further professional career. The research was organized to investigate whether the students of higher education institution demonstrate willingness to integrate interactive media into language learning process, i.e. students do not have to be passive users but actively apply and use interactive media in the learning process. Consequently, the teachers have to be familiar with the opportunities provided by the interactive media and acknowledge the necessity of its integration, but still some considerations and uncertainty exist. The methods used for the research are as follows: analysis of the scientific literature sources, content analysis, and questionnaires. Findings of the research are formulated after analysis of the collected data and they revealed the capabilities of the students to use interactive media and perception of the importance and usefulness of such measures.Majority of teachers demonstrate conservative attitude towards innovations and implementation of modern teaching/learning methods, but the situation will be improved putting the efforts in order to seek positive learning outcomes and modernize the study process.

“Interactive Media in English for Math at Kindergarten: Supporting Learning, Language and Literacy with ICT”

“…Almost each person of contemporary society can become an active user of interactive media. Updated information, various educational activities, different information sources provide users (teachers and students) with evidence that integration of interactive media supports efficiency of foreign language learning and teaching (Kuprienė & Žegunienė, 2017).…”

“…Media provides people with assistance when they have the purpose of exchanging information and ideas on particular issues and on particular occasion. The exchange of information can be done by using different channels and methods of interactive media such as written method of communication (blogs, comment, and chat rooms), visual information (short movies, games), graphical information (photos, pictures), audio (music files) and etc (Kuprienė & Žegunienė, 2017).…”

“…If interactive media was chosen for the study process, a student would be able to select from variety of learning methods such as educational games, websites, chat rooms, forums, internet games, social networks etc (Kuprienė & Žegunienė, 2017). For younger learners, it is important the assistance and the regular monitoring observation for them when using interactive media as an alternative of improving their language and literacy.…”

“…Because of that, environment of study process plays a vital role, and it is a duty of a teacher to provide students with modern and interactive possibilities to support their positive achievements as their learning outcomes in foreign language learning. The combination of theory and practice can be in the form of the use of course (Motteram, 2013;Kuprienė & Žegunienė, 2017) .…”

“…The virtual environment is an alternative way of literacy learning that is attractive in educational perspective. Therefore teachers have to be ready to integrate interactive media into study process to create playful activities especially for young learners, because this innovative method stimulates study process that makes it efficient and modernized (Kuprienė & Žegunienė, 2017;Wyse & Jones, 2008;Winograd, 2015 …”