Multimedia Technologies in Foreign Language Learning under Pandemic

Teaching foreign languages in Ukraine have undergone crucial changes with the introduction of multimedia technologies aimed at simulating native speaking environment in audition and oral communication. These rapidly paved their way both into the students' learning and the innovative teaching techniques. The paper focuses on solving the problems of traditional teaching framework adaptation to the newly-appeared multimedia techniques, their integration into the educational process within and beyond classroom, in face-to-face activities as well as those in remote learning under pandemic. The issue of blending traditional and multimedia techniques embraces further introduction of mobile phone applications to be used in the classroom and combination of plasma TV screens / projector video demonstrations and individual use of mobile applications (BYOD-(Bring Your Own Device)-technology). The research study on the student's feedback on their audition and communication skills improvement proved efficient and matched the teachers' evaluation in a number of surveys and interviews conducted by the two foreign languages departments.