Digital Humanities: The Possibility of Using Intelligent Learning Systems in Teaching Foreign Languages

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to justify the need to update the methods and technologies of teaching foreign languages according to the processes of development and digitalization of society and the educational and cultural environment. The relevance of the research is connected with the updating of methods by attracting the methods of digital humanities that can quickly respond to changes in society and the educational space. The scientific novelty of the article is in the analysis of existing intelligent learning systems (ILS) presented on the Internet and applications operating on Android and ios mobile platforms. ILS allows you to cluster the words which must be learnt under the topics, complexity or stylistic changes by means of tags. The article describes the types of training exercises, proposed options for working with applications for the formation of lexical skills, and also describes the results of an experiment on the use of an intelligent learning system. Research methods: in the framework of this article, the principles and methods of teaching a foreign language, and its vocabulary in particular, are considered in the context of communicative, active and cognitive approaches. The results of the study prove the high teaching potential of ILS: the high didactic possibilities of ICT-based teaching aids and their compliance with the basic psychological needs of the individual, which increase the level of internal motivation of students and the effectiveness of mastering the productive and receptive vocabulary, are substantiated. In conclusion, the usage of ILS in the educational environment is revealed.