Thinking Globally: Ict Teaching Perspectives

This work was encouraged by the contemporary global processes taking place in the world labor market. These processes impose new demands on the modern specialists, and in particular on the future teachers of foreign language. These changes lead to the necessity of modernization of the foreign language education targeted at the development of the competences necessary for the teachers of «the new formation». Current study was aimed at examination of the effectiveness of the implementation of ICT for the development of the cross-cultural professionally reflective competence. This research lasted for two months and involved two groups of third-year future teachers of a foreign language taking the ESP course. The research participants comprised 15 students in control group (CG) and 16 students in experimental group (EG). In the course of the study CG was taught according to the standard ESP syllabus with the use of the ESP course-book. In EG in addition to the standard program was implemented ICT. The research results were obtained from the comparison of the EG and CG course achievements by means of pre- and post-tests. The research results have shown that the use of ICT in the foreign language teaching facilitates the development of the cross-cultural professionally – reflective competence.