SPECIFIC FEATURES OF SMART-TECHNOLOGIES USE IN THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF WOULD-BE GERMAN TEACHERS TRAINING

Abstract

The article deals with the study of specific features of smart-technologies use while studying the German language by would-be foreign languages teachers. It is stated that the use of Internet technologies promotes the higher education applicants’ motivation and cognitive activity, their desire to study foreign languages, provides studying intensification and individualization. Having analysed scientific literature and relying on the personal experience, the author analysed specific features, opportunities and prospects for smart-technologies use in the vocational training of would-be German teachers. Smart education is proved to provoke flexibility, a long list of literature, a variety of multimedia, the ability to perform a quick and easy adaptation to the student’s level and necessities. The education also causes active experience and idea-sharing, course personification, the time saving to modify the existing educational content instead of its primary formation. The fact that smart technologies are characterized by flexibility, individualization, interactivity, multimedia use of the educational process is predominated. It promotes the combined implementation of individual and group lessons. The article justifies the fact that smart-technologies use while studying the German language helps to solve a number of educational tasks: the formation of listening comprehension, reading, writing, advanced vocabulary skills and abilities. It also stimulates the higher education applicants’ formation of firm motivation to study the German language. The following educational sites are used by Uman State Pedagogical University applicants of the educational programme ‘Secondary education. The English language and literature, the German language and literature while studying the German language are analysed: Rosetta stone, Deutsche Welle, Deutschlernerblog, YouTube-channel “Easy German”, the online newspaper ‘Zeit online’. The methodology to work with the audio texts on the site “Deutsche Welle” is described. The main advantages of smart technologies implementation while the German language teaching are outlined. Keywords: innovative educational technologies; smart technologies; smart education; online resources; foreign languages would-be teachers; the German language; Deutsche Welle; language environment