Electronic Educational Resources in Foreign Languages Teaching

Information technology is used practically in all spheres of human life. The processes of informatization of society have a strong influence on Education. Moreover, the implementation of new technologies, informatization and computerization nowadays are an integral part of Education. The development of information technologies has led to the emergence of a new form of education "e-learning", that is, education using information and communication technologies. The basis of "e-learning" is electronic educational resources (EER). The purpose of the study is to evaluate the importance of electronic educational resources in teaching foreign languages at Universities. To accomplish the goals and objectives of the study the following methods of research were used: the analysis of pedagogical, didactic, psychological, methodical and special literature, approbation of electronic educational resources, pedagogical experiment and statistical methods of processing of results of the study. The paper concludes important information about various types of electronic educational resources, advantages of using EER in teaching a foreign language, the basic principle of the creation and functioning of EER, the criteria for assessing the quality of EER. The experimental work was done on the basis of Elabuga Institute of Kazan Federal University. The study was carried out with first-year university students of Department of Foreign Languages. The success of the experiment presented in this paper is demonstrated by comparing the results of the test group who were taught using electronic educational resources with the reference group who were taught in a common traditional way. The statistical analysis shows that the test group students had better achievements compared to the reference group. The authors conclude that information communicative technologies, including electronic educational resources nowadays have become one of the main indicators of Education development.