The Foreign Languages Teaching Transformation in the COVID-19 Pandemic

The pandemic caused by the coronavirus spread has made serious changes in all spheres of human life, including education. The necessity of remote learning has intensified the process to implement a digital educational environment. The presented work aims to analyze the realization of remote foreign language teaching in a higher educational institution in extreme conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the content analysis of pedagogical articles and considering their own teaching experience the authors concluded that intensive use of information and computer technologies is justified by their high efficiency, but their harmful effects on the physiological, mental and social health of educational activity subjects are not taken into account. The paper emphasizes the implicit possibilities of the discipline “Foreign Language” (to develop motivation for a healthy lifestyle), highlights the importance of health-saving components of the modern educational process in higher education. As a result, a number of recommendations were formulated to improve the educational system for the further successful application of remote learning. Examining the emergency remote teaching difficulties (material, technical, educational, organizational, didactic, methodological, socio—psychological, personnel, administrative and managerial, economic) is very important due to pedagogical practice, since it makes it possible to plan effective activities in different educational modes (distance, remote, online, mobile, blending/hybrid learning, exc.) not only in the pandemic period but in the post-pandemic one as well.