THE USE OF VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN TEACHING LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

The article comprehensively solves two main questions: a) the content of educational materials on language and literature; b) the possibility of using a telecommunications educational information system (TUIS) to improve the system of both students' independent work and the interaction of the teacher with the students. TUIS at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia was created on the basis of a free learning management system, a virtual learning environment Module Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment - MOODLE. The facilities of TUIS are perfectly adapted for teaching not only students, but also applicants who are to pass the compulsory Unified State Exam (USE) in the Russian language. Language is a part of philology, interdisciplinary science, which includes literature. In general, philology is understood as a general humanities area of knowledge, studying texts and their meanings. That is why the exam on the Russian language involves knowledge of literature, the ability to navigate the general space of philology. Applicants will not only have to solve the test tasks on grammar, logic, spelling and punctuation, but also to determine the means of language expressiveness proposed for text analysis, to write an essay. They should argue their own opinion, relying on the well-known stratum of Russian and foreign literature. The telecommunication system makes it possible to create tasks in a multimedia format (fragments of artistic texts, presentations, video lectures, audio lectures, films, graphics). Using the Add an Activity menu, a teacher can add one or more of the many task forms represented in MOODLE. All this contributes to the integration of language and literature, allows us to keep these important aspects of philological knowledge from each other.