OPPORTUNITIES OF USING WORDWALL SERVICE IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract. Nowadays Information and communication technology (ICT) play an important role in the development of the educational programs. Professors from all over the world create educational online resources specially for use in the learning process.

Wardwall service is an Internet-resource, that can be used by foreign language teachers as a useful tool for training almost all aspects of language: writing, speaking and reading.
This study is dedicated to multiple ways of using Wordwall service in foreign language teaching. According to the main goal of higher education, the purpose of the study is to observe the possibilities of Wordwall service as an effective resource that helps teacher to combine all the necessary factors in foreign language teaching and helps students to improve their skills in grammar, vocabulary, and speech.

When using educational Internet resources in the educational process, the motivation for learning increases, the cognitive interest of students is stimulated, the effectiveness of independent work increases, and all the potentials of the individual are realized: cognitive, moral, creative, communicative, and aesthetic, that is, students are adapted to study at a university in the context of education informatization. New technologies allow the young generation to quickly receive up-to-date information about what is happening in the world. Students master the “limitless” possibilities of the Internet. Using these opportunities in learning activities transforms familiar activities into an extremely fun and creative learning process. Modern educational Internet resources can provide the transfer of knowledge and access to various educational information. They allow teachers to implement a fundamentally new approach to the study of foreign language.

The methodological basis of the study is a number of works related to the usage of ICT in learning (Titova S.V., Kapranchikova K.V., Danilina E.K., Malyuga E. N., Polat E.S., etc.)
The main conclusion made after the research is that the Wordwall resource in foreign language teaching provides high level of different language skills development. In general, the variety of tools offered by Wordwall templates gives a foreign language teacher an inexhaustible source for pedagogical creativity, especially for organizing and conducting informative and at the same time entertaining distance learning.

Keywords: Wordwall, ICT in education, foreign language teaching, E-learning