PREPARATIONS TO ORGANIZE BLOGGING-BASED INDEPENDENT WORK OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

The latest methodology to organize students' independent work with information and communication technology is both an opportunity and a challenge for higher education owing to its current digitalization. The following article presents an algorithm which allows teachers to prepare for and organize students' independent work based on student foreign-language blogging. Such an algorithm might be easily used and reproduced by foreign language teachers and researchers engaged in profession-oriented foreign language training of future graduates of a technical university. It includes four procedures: from analyzing the regulatory standards and identifying the objectives and methodology of organizing students' independent work, to forming an expert group and developing the quality-assurance criteria for this work's further evaluation, to finding out the structure, content and levels of professional foreign language competences to be developed, as well as its information and technical support. The results of experimental work enable us to point out the effectiveness of the given algorithm in stimulating students' growth in the competence levels, due to its focus on students' professional development which is often a challenge to many foreign language teachers and researchers.