Impact of multimedia technology on the formation of foreign language communicative competence in students

The study demonstrates that the use of multimedia educational presentations as a type of multimedia technology significantly raises the level of foreign language communicative competence of pedagogy students. Furthermore, multimedia educational presentations have a positive influence on the development of all types of foreign language speech activities and contribute to learning motivation. The paper establishes that multimedia presentations as a means of forming the communicative competence of future teachers are efficient if their content is based on a balanced and rational combination of exercises and tasks whose materials are selected in accordance with the for mulated requirements that comprehensively provide for the achievement of high levels of communicative competence by students