REGULARITIES OF ENGLISH LEXICAL COMPETENCE FORMATION IN VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Psychological mechanisms that are involved in English lexical competence formation are shown, among them: perception, comprehension, memorizing, mastering and applying learned material on practice. Peculiarities of the mentioned psychological processes are distinguished and analyzed. Namely, the flow of perception is faster, comprehension becomes deep and systematic, the possibility of involuntary lexical units’ memorizing increases, the use of learned material aims at solving professionally-oriented and practically-relevant problems.