Innovation in Language Learning

Modern social realities orient the system of Higher education to the rapid transformation and reformation aimed at ensuring a high quality of study process. Creating a quality assessment system of students’ activities, which can function as a major instrument of quality monitoring, is becoming a topical issue. That is why one of the primary goals of Higher Linguistic education is to develop an innovative system of monitoring and evaluation of students on the basis of information technologies. In this paper, we offer the description of the system of monitoring and evaluation of Linguistics students’ study activity on the basis of information technologies.

The central question to be examined in this paper is the mechanism of evaluation of the language skills of students of Linguistics faculties. Here we explore the possibilities of a free web application “Moodle” in the process of evaluation of students’ language skills. The paper suggests the possible aspects of evaluation of in-class and out-of-class activities of language students, presents an instrument of evaluation – an electronic mark-book, designed with the help of Excel program.

In general, the mechanism presented in this paper can be easily reproduced and successfully used in every day teacher practice.