as: distance learning, computer-aided learning, network learning, virtual learning,
multimedia learning, mobile learning) contributes to the improvement of information
culture of students in the process of foreign language training, development of their
ability to organize cognitive activities when working with foreign language materials,
to refer for the necessary information to foreign language sources. Such training
maximizes the foreign language activities of students by bringing them closer to real
communicative situations, using role plays, modeling a qualitatively new type of
visualization of learning material, processes and phenomena etc. According to some
scholars, using multimedia is an important part of educational environment, because it
improves independent extracurricular work of students [Stavytska, 2017, p. 127].
The use of computer technologies in education expands horizons, enables to learn
the discipline better, promotes students' interest in learning, generates creativity, spatial
and logical thinking, imagination, observation and general scientific skills [
Romaniuk,
2014, p. 75]
CONCLUSION
Nowadays effective communication policies ensure that vital information flows
through different levels of society to all its members. Developments in IT and
telecommunications have changed the way people communicate, making it possible to
contact people at any time and within any distance. However, this sometimes leads to
an information overload, when the ability to produce information is outstripping your
ability to process it. Then you feel you need the strategies for identifying and
prioritizing, the rules of balanced and comfortable exchange of information ΜΆ you need
the skills of effective communication. Actually, you can hardly become a first-rate
specialist in tourism or economics, if you have not mastered these skills.
In addition, you need to have a good command of foreign languages to be able to
work at the international level, penetrate into the essentials of the information
environment to feel more autonomous in the sphere of information. Foreign languages
for specialists in tourism and economics have become an instrument that helps not only
take actions and make decisions, but also generate new ideas and create a favourable
business atmosphere, understand the culture of different nationalities and carry out a
high quality professional communication, which considerably enhances your
competitiveness and offers new opportunities for success.
There is a big variety of methods and approaches to professionally oriented
foreign language training of students, majoring in Tourism and Economics, particularly
in terms of effective professional communication, whose deficiency can substantially
hinder the professional competitiveness, personal and professional development of
specialists in these fields. It is important to focus on methods that activate the reserve
capacity of students for remembering, awareness and communication, and develop the
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