The Role of Digital Technologies in Independent Study of Philological Subjects

Abstract

Introduction: At present the great attention for developing skills on the independent study of philological sciences in Uzbekistan using digital technologies in the educational process.

Objectives: Creation of the independent education skills on students in studying philological subjects using digital technologies is important task of modern education system. The article discusses the nature, structure, and content of philological sciences and the unique opportunities for the purposeful development of independent thinking and working skills. It highlights the role of digital technologies in improving student’s knowledge and skills, the experience of foreign countries in this regard, ways of organizing expressive reading and speech culture classes using digital technologies, and the alignment of newly forming competencies with the proposed educational tools.

Methods: The nature of the philological subjects, structure and existence of individual peculiar possibilities on independent thinking and independent working skills, role of the digital technologies in developing knowledge and qualifications of pupils, foreign experiences, shapes of beautiful reading and speaking lessons using the digital technologies, accordance them with the proposing educational devices have been revealed.

Results: We defined 11 parts of basic competitions of organization of independent education.  Activity of students to the following independent knowledges of independent learning are directed: teaching the independent education shape in the extracurricular activities (in experience groups equals 61,7%, in control is 56,4%), pay attention to thinking activity in the language learning process (in experience groups equals 58,2%, in control is 52,5%); working with the latest references (in experience groups equals 32,7%, in control is 23,6%). Based on the obtained information we gave students the target tasks for learning the main competitions. The lessons in control have been carried out in traditional shape taking into account of students. As the experience groups we carried out lessons systematically using the effective forms of educational process and interactive educational methods. In these lessons we payed attention to development and control of independent art activity skills in the educational process: facultative course program on the independent works of students; plan of independent learning, organization of independent study (projection method, autonomic reaching et al.). In order to obtain the trust and exact results we have carried out the final controls in the test form after each stage of experiences. As test’s results showed the independent education skills on future specialists have been developed after developing and controlling the independent educational activity.

Conclusions: The possibilities of all subjects by creating skills and qualifications on independent thinking students are different. Between subjects the philological ones have special separated possibilities on nature, structure and meaning, development of independent thinking and independent working skills. Development of independent thinking reflects to independent choice of task and mastering the new knowledges in creative activity process and using ones to other new situations. Teaching of students to creativity allows to construct the independent thinking and organize initial base of independent working skills. Training solve of problematic tasks provides creating in students of independence, knowledge activity, generalization, concluding skills. Introducing creativity to the educational process leads to creation and development of independent thinking, allows to combining the educational and scientific activity. In result this procedure increases the efficiency of teaching on philological subjects to universities students. Using digital technologies is effective criterium for independent thinking, creating independent working skills and increasing interests to subject on students. Moreover, the digital technologies create possibility for creating developing skills as analyze, connect, generalize and definition.