Mastering communicative skills of university students using online programs in English teaching

Abstract

Nowadays, in terms of a pandemic, our contemporary world faces many incredibly arduous challenges, and the education sphere is not an exception. Our Kazakhstani education system had to alter the teaching process and adapt to online teaching. In this regard, there was a necessity to continue teaching English and find out the appropriate and efficient ways in developing all main activities as Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. It was obvious that teaching speaking became more difficult especially the improvement of communicative skills at distance learning. The main principle of the communicative approach is to use the lexical units and grammatical structures studied in the classroom in speech, both oral and written. Moreover, it was necessary to focus the university students on the various effective online programs. The given article is devoted to the mastery of online programs providing a golden opportunity to improve the communicative skills of university students and delineate the positive results in our contemporary situation. Despite the difficulties dealing with the coronavirus our university students of the Foreign Language theory and practice department do overcome the barriers.