Remote Teaching a Foreign Language to Students of Conventional Specialities of the Russian University of Transport during the World Lockdown Because of COVID-19 Spread

Abstract

The problem of remote teaching of technical university students of conventional specialities a foreign language is considered. Confident proficiency in a foreign language is one of the conditions for obtaining a promising job in the future. The article compares the productivity of remote learning technologies and the traditional classroom form of teaching a subject in mastering a foreign language by technical university students in the context of a pandemic of novel coronavirus infection. Remote learning shows its productivity, provided that various psychological and pedagogical technologies are combined concerning e-learning, an example of which is given in the article. The success of remote learning is also associated with the generation of psychological comfort during classes, which increases the percentage of students with positive emotional (functional) states.