INTERNET RESOURCES AS A MOTIVATING FACTOR IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Nowadays to meet international educational standards learning foreign languages, Chinese in particular requires new approaches and solutions in terms of progressive methods. The article aims to analyse the ways innovative technologies influence motivation. In this respect, IT and Internet technologies are vital and need further development to be applied in educational process. To boost students' cognitive abilities, to motivate them to resort to additional educational Internet resources out of class while doing homework a new pattern of teaching-learning process needs to be created to develop students' creativity. Thus, an experimental design employing an empirical observation and survey were employed to achieve the aim of the study. Two different questionnaires were used with the teachers of Chinese and their students who participated in the experiment. The article presents the results of the experimental study and one of the lesson plans that was worked out by the authors. The study shows that both teachers and students find Internet technologies a very efficient motivating tool. A remarkable progress was noticed in acquiring new vocabulary, grammar patterns and culture-related information while working with Internet technologies. For a great number of students it is essential to get non-negative comments from the computer (not from the teacher) deprived of any personal attitude or remarks, which contributes to psychologically positive environment in the educational process. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK