THE POTENTIAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING TO MEDICAL STUDENTS THROUGH BLENDED LEARNING

Currently, the use of information technologies on the basis of modern educational and methodological complexes for teaching a foreign language allows to individualize and differentiate the educational process. The aim of the study is to identify the opportunities that modern information technologies offer in the process of teaching a foreign language to students of non-linguistic universities within the framework of the blended learning model. The problem under study emphasizes the professionally-oriented component in the teaching of a foreign language. In this regard, the following aspects are considered in the article: the problem of professional orientation in the course of teaching a foreign language; the possibility of using information technology in teaching a foreign language; blended learning model of English language education to students of non-linguistic specialties with the focus of professional orientation; information tools and methods of working with them in the framework of blended learning; the advantages of a constructive educational system in the context of students' self-organization when learning a foreign language.