Difficulties of teaching English in a technical university under distance learning

Konovalova Svetlana Vladimirovna

This work aims to identify the range of difficulties that teachers of a technical university face when working with student teams online. To achieve this goal, the study involves the implementation of a number of tasks, which consist in identifying the features of teaching students of non-linguistic specialties in a distance mode; characterization of the problems faced by the subject of the educational process when interacting through distance technologies; the formulation of the proposed solutions to the identified difficulties. To solve the set tasks, the article uses such methods as: analysis, synthesis, description, comparison. The article concludes that the main difficulties in distance learning are the difficulties of implementing the principles of a personality-oriented approach in conditions of multi-level basic training of students, organizing students' independent work, using effective methods for assessing the formation of a complex of knowledge, abilities and skills, maintaining the motivational sphere of students for studying the discipline "Foreign language (English)".

Keywords:foreign language teaching, technical university, distance technologies, motivational sphere, independent work, differentiated education, personality-oriented approach.