Vol 13, No 3 (2016)

Education technologies have done a great deal to help teachers support students. Multimedia learning is the use of technology to support the learning process. Using multimedia in the teaching and learning environment enables students to become critical thinkers, problem solvers, more motivated in their learning processes. English is a content best mastered through students’ discovering and working through their own various curricular initiatives, so students need to take an ownership and responsibility for their own learning.The paper provides a brief overview of the advantages and disadvantages of learning via Skype and gives the example of exercises used. The major educational benefit is in meeting the needs of the students who make decision of learning autonomously.

He article gives a brief outline of categories of time and space in philosophy, psychology and linguistics. It highlights the main properties of such categories in literal text. It also determines main differences and similarities between “real” time and space and their representation in literature.

The article explains the corporate training as a coordinated interaction of educational and industrial processes in the preparation of in-demand professionals. This interaction is based on the unity of the three methodological bases: the axiological (priority of professional and industrial values and goals within the professional development of the individual student), ontological (the integration of science, education and production), technological (scientific organization of labor, organization and implementation of professional activity). These fundamentals determine the methodological approaches to the corporate training of staff. On the part of the production process such approaches being: compliance with the law of the workforce and the nature of and technology; The law of change of work; the law of the division of labor; the strategy (concept) of development of production technology aimed at optimizing the production process, the quality of products, reduce its production costs. From the pedagogical process - the system, the activity, andragogical, student-centered, qualification, resource approaches.

The author examines the training manual created by the department of SSTU to prepare students, bachelors, masters of the Oil- Technological Department, Department of Engineering, Metallurgy and Transport and Department of Automation and Information Technology. The purpose of these text books is the formation of foreign language professionally-oriented competence of students. The structure of text books, types of lexical and grammatical tasks and techniques of teaching reading and text abstracting are considered.

This article deals with the problem of internationalization of education in a technical university. It draws line between the concepts of "internationalization" and "globalization" and defines the terms "inner" and "outer" internationalization. One of the main obstacles to the development of educational and research services export is the lack of foreign language skills of the students and teachers of technical specialties. In this regard, the article provides an overview of the achievements of the Samara State Technical University in its pursuit to create favourable conditions for the development of a foreign language environment at the University.