Possibilities of Language Skills Development within the Framework of Communicative Competence Mastering in E- Learning Language Courses ★

The paper focuses on a research dealing with the methods employed to combine types, so-called technological types, of exercises used for distance education in a virtual learning environment and types of exercises, so-called methodological types or techniques, used in foreign language teaching methodology. The used concept of technological types of exercises involves the most common types offered by virtual learning environments: multiple and single choice, gap filling, drag and drop, sequenced frames and text answer. Methodological types or techniques include commonly used types of exercises: closed-ended tasks and open-ended tasks. Techniques can be implemented into an e-learning course using different technological types. The aim of the described research is to discover whether some of these combinations are more suitable to practise and reinforce three receptive and productive language skills: reading comprehension, listening comprehension and writing. More precisely, the primary purpose of the research is to identify the most and least suitable combinations of the most frequently used technological types of exercises and those exercises of foreign language teaching methodologies that are used to practice and reinforce each of the above-mentioned three language skills.