Abstract:

The study focuses on the teacher’s educational blog which proves to be an effective instrument in reaching a high level of foreign languages competence of university students.

When online studying started because of global pandemic, teachers and students faced a lot of problems. High Economic School (Moscow, Russia) and Tomsk State Institute (Tomsk, Russia) conducted a cooperative survey in 2020 to try to comprehend those problems. The results showed that students suffered from lack of knowledge, boredom and monotony while taking online classes. Moreover, low level of communication within «teacher-student» chain as well as within «student-student(s)» chain was noticed. On the other hand, teachers try hard to bridge the gaps. They use different methods of teaching to bring life into online educational meetings. Various e-tools are tested to develop students’ interest and provide effective teaching.

It is important to say that at present a great deal is being done. Researchers suggest effective ways of teaching and studying in the current context. Teachers share their stories about fruitful methods in distance learning to help each other. But the problem is still with us. It might be partially solved with the help of the teacher’s personal professional blog. Valuable experience of creating and updating an educational blog by the author of the article is described in detail. Being the main source of any educational blog functioning, information should be carefully selected by the teacher to meet all eligibility requirements and have a high focus on its target group. The teacher should systematize information to ensure easy access and time saving for audience of users.

Keywords:

Distance education, language teaching, online teaching, educational blog, teacher’s personal professional blog.