Adult learners’ communicative foreign language competence development in higher school via information technology and multimedia implementation

Abstract

The authors’ target is to reveal the problem of the information technology effective usage (in particular multimedia) at adult learners teaching in Higher school. The authors review the development of the competences and their differences from expertise even retrospectively while teaching adult learners modern informational technologies and share their personal view on the creating E-educational materials. The article also presents the experience of practical use of E-learning course developed in the Modular Object Oriented Developmental Learning Environment (MOODLE) and focuses on the analysis of the structural components of the content intended for adult learners professional communication training and specifies the factors affecting the methodological organization of the lexical and grammar material.