Abstract:

Electronic educational platforms are widely used in modern educational process as well as in foreign language teaching. The practice of using electronic educational platform MyGrammarLab proves that even ready-made authentic foreign language courses allow creating individual tracking of foreign language teaching. MyGrammarLab is intended for improving grammar skills of students who learn a foreign language. MyGrammarLab has courses of different levels that consist of diagnostic, audio and video, training and control materials. Various settings of this platform provide flexible management of any course despite the inability to change the content. Diagnostics within the course: the number of attendance and attempts to complete a task, the amount of time spent for a task, the number of completed assignments enable a teacher to coordinate each student’s work and organize individual tracking of teaching to increase the educational productivity. The authors of this article carry out the ratio analysis between the time spent and the level of student’s success, and also between the number of attempts to complete a task and the final score. This statistics forms the basis to create a methodology of work with MyGrammarLab and additional materials that can be uploaded into the on-line resources in order to improve the quality of education among underperforming students. When the methodology is put into practice it shows the increase in motivation of students when they do both built-in and additionally uploaded assignments by the teachers. The teachers monitor the results by means of messages. The authors present statistics of the results obtained before and after applying the methodology. These results show qualitative improvement in educational progress. In conclusion the authors propose practical recommendations for organization of individual work of students with different levels of English using electronic educational platform MyGrammarLab.

Keywords:

Electronic educational platforms, MyGrammarLab, foreign language teaching, individual tracking, learning analytics.