Formation of a new language personality when teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university in the context of digitalization: changing motivational triggers

Abstract

The research aim of this study is to justify the possibility of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the process of forming a new language personality when teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university when changing motivational triggers. The article examines how changed motivational triggers affect the formation of a new language personality during foreign language instruction in a university under conditions of education digitalization. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time, based on the material of such information and communication technologies as YouTube, ChatGPT, Web 2.0, options for organizing a foreign-language educational process with students of a non-linguistic university in conditions of changing motivational triggers are shown. The study establishes that educational digitalization leads to shifts in motivational triggers, necessitating the use of ICT in foreign language classes in a non-linguistic university. Due to the fact that knowledge is becoming publicly available on the Internet, the role of the teacher is changing. He turns into an assistant, developing students' independence and motivation. The main purpose of such a process will be to form students' clear ideas about how the foreign language being studied can be used to solve everyday tasks, which gives reason to talk about the formation of a new linguistic personality.