Innovation in Language Learning

One of the forms of project activity on the basis of modern Internet technologies is web-based technology which is based on not very complicated but problematic tasks. Web-Quest is a web-task which is a scenario of organization of students' project activity on any topic using Internet resources. It involves working with a large amount of material, research activities and critical understanding of information. The project activity in the context of the socio-cultural information space includes modern second-generation Internet technologies (Web 2.0) that allow users not only to find and download information but also work together and post new information on the network, create an open, interactive educational information environment in which information accessible to the learner becomes a means of developing their personality. When studying linguistic disciplines web-quest is used as a kind of independent creative work of students, a project assignment with elements of a role-playing game in the performance of which information resources of the Internet are used. We use different types of tasks in the independent work with students using the technology of web-quests: assignments to find a source from the Internet on a particular topic of a specific academic discipline and its retelling task (this kind of independent work can be considered conditionally creative since the format and form of the students' reports at the seminar sessions with the use of electronic presentations consists not only in presenting the original materials from a particular website or Internet portal but also in selecting, organizing and processing the information found); presentation on the basis of this material (with the compilation version of the web-quest [compilation task] students analyze educational portals and Internet sites on a certain topic, select the most significant, from their point of view, and systematize, rework and reformat the content of the relevant portals and sites); drawing conclusions on the work done. The use of web-quest technology allows to solve the problem of providing continuous intensive teaching communications to students in the information and communication space both in classroom and extracurricular independent work.

Keywords: Web-quest technology, students, independent work, linguistic discipline, project activity;