MEDIA DIDACTIC SUPPORT OF THE PROCESS OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING

Abstract

The article reveals the essence of media didactic support of future primary school teachers’ foreign language training. It consists in providing students with methodological support in order to form their foreign language communicative competence through completeing tasks, solving professional and life situations. Media didactic support guids in creating a foreign language communicative environment, which provides clearly defined tasks (situations, instructions) within the subject of the discipline of the foreign language unit and ways to analyze, evaluate foreign media, create own ones and perform manual actions using media tools. The paper presents some elements of the author's media didactic support of future primary school teachers’ foreign language training in the content of foreign language disciplines, which testify to the diversity of future primary school teachers’ foreign language training with didactic tools, methods and forms of foreign language teaching. Applying theoretical research methods (analysis, comparison, generalization, systematization, synthesis and specification), emphasis is placed on aspects of media didactics development in the process of future primary school teachers’ foreign language training, which allows integration of future school teachers’ foreign language communicative competence and their media literacy. It is established that alongside with traditional methods of foreign language teaching (conversation, explanation, demonstration, etc.) innovative ones are being actively used (the usage of computer programs, the usage of mobile applications, creative tasks, webquest, filming, audio recording, analysis of problem situations and others). Media tools (digital images and photos, collages, comics, screenshots, websites, blogs, infographics, clusters, audio recordings, podcasts, cartoons, audiobooks, online dictionaries, social networks, mobile applications for others) expand the didactic tools of foreign language teaching.