Information Educational Environment of Higher Educational Institution in Training of Professionally-Oriented Foreign Language: Essence, Content, Functions

Abstract

The relevance of the study is determined by the clear interest in contemporary educational practice to implement the requirements of training specialists able to compete in the labour market. The need for learning information-educational environment of a university in the modern context of teaching professionally-oriented foreign language is covered. A brief review of research on the subject is made, which confirms the possibility of exploring the pedagogical potential of this phenomenon. The research novelty lies in the formulation of the problem involving the identification of essence, structure and functional characteristics of the educational environment of the university in teaching professionally-oriented foreign language. Based on the presented approaches to the key concept the essence of “information-educational environment of the university” is clarified in the framework of professional training of future specialists. Attention is paid to the description of the fundamental principles of information-educational environment functioning: structuredness, hierarchy, openness, adaptability, variability, integration, interactivity. Structural components of information educational environment of the university within the framework of teaching professionally-oriented foreign language - organizational, task, resource and content, technological-procedural, socio-subject, - are distinguished, their content is revealed in detail. The functions of the information-educational environment of the university are described (educational, developmental, informational, reflective, functions of socialization). Their interrelation with the structural components is shown.