Flerov O.V. Blog as a Mean of Teaching English

Abstract: The object of research is the means of teaching English. The matter under study is using blogs in this pedagogical process as a mean of teaching. The author deeply studies the problem of choosing means of teaching English these days and in􀏔luence of modern technologies on it as well as characteristics of blog texts and ways to work with them. Introduction of new means along with classic ones is motivated. Particular attention is paid to importance of using authentic materials in teaching English nowadays. The method of research in this article is author’s analysis of widespread teaching practice and his own experience of teaching English. The novelty of the article consists in viewing a habitual virtual object as a mean of teaching English. In the new role this object gets originality. The principal conclusions from the article are the following. 1) There is the necessity to add new means of teaching English to traditional teaching methods. 2) Authentic materials are effective both from methodological and from psychological point of view. 3) Blog texts are linguistically speci􀏔ic and resemble discourse. 4) Originality of blogs as a mean of teaching gives new ways of working with texts that contain considerable methodological potential.

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