OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH TO STUDENTS OF THE TOURISM SPECIALTY USING FLIPPED CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

Currently, digital technologies have become the main component used in all spheres of society. The application of such scientific achievements in higher education is becoming one of the most relevant topics today. One of the educational methods based on modern digital achievements in the learning process is the Flipped Classroom technology. This technology can be used in teaching students at any level of education. The purpose of this article is to study and prove the effectiveness of using Flipped Classroom technology at the stage of teaching English to students studying in the educational field of Tourism. The research was conducted on the study of works written by world scientists in order to describe the features of the technology application, discuss and summarize the experience conducted by 1st year students of the International University of Tourism and Hospitality based on these theoretical aspects. The main idea of the article is to open up new opportunities for easy and effective teaching of English to students of the specialty Tourism by analyzing various experiments of scientists conducted so far. During the practice, in order to determine the practical effectiveness of technology in teaching English, students were divided into experimental and control groups. There has been significant progress in the ratio of the test of students' preliminary theoretical knowledge to the test results after practice and the level of their ability to speak English. Students' interest in the English language is also growing, and their inspiration is awakening. This, in turn, proved that Flipped Classroom technology is one of the most active learning methods based on digital capabilities. The value of the research work is expressed in the possibility of using Flipped Classroom technology as an innovative idea when conducting practical classes for students of the specialty Tourism based on the results of this study.