Several online learning platforms use recorded videos as a medium for delivering their material. In addition, several applications, such as Zoom, Google Meet, and WhatsApp, can help communicate interactively during this learning process. However, because the application is still separate from the existing online learning platform, users must switch applications and make the necessary data settings. Another obstacle experienced is that not all online learning service providers can have the infrastructure to use online learning systems, especially if the providers are individuals. This research uses a simple sequential method and aims to build an integrated online course system equipped with an interactive learning management system that many online courses, in general, can use. The main features are submissions of new courses by teachers, ordering courses by students, classes can be held using live video streams, the interaction between teachers and students in real-time with live chat, and a learning management system that includes sending and receiving assignments and quizzes. The test results show that as many as 73.2% of respondents gave the highest score for the built system. 
 

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Software as a Service-based Integrated Interactive Online Course System

The present article analyzes the distance teaching didactic possibilities for foreign language educational process organization. The authors consider the main foreign languages distance teaching components and describe the “Foreign language” academic discipline characteristic features. Moreover, the authors describe the distance learning specifics, taking language disciplines subject features into account, and provide a detailed analysis of the foreign languages distance teaching process components. The importance of various interaction means between a teacher and a student in the foreign language online learning process, including e-mail, Skype, Google Docs, Zoom, Teams and Moodle platforms, is stressed. The Moodle platform application is researched on the example of the language disciplines electronic test control organization at Russian Customs Academy Rostov branch and at Don State Technical University. The interactive methods application in foreign language online teaching is described on the example of classes held in the form of chats, web classes and webinars. The article describes an experiment conducted at Don State Technical University on the project technology application within the “Project Activity Fundamentals” discipline framework in the 1st-year “Linguistics” students’ groups. As a result of the project activities, projects-presentations were prepared in English on the topic “My career opportunities in the foreign languages field” and a course module for distance learning in the “Foreign language in the professional sphere” discipline for of non-language faculties students was presented. Basing on the distance teaching components analysis and the ways of their application, the authors arrived at the conclusion that carefully selected didactic tools ensure the organization, students ’ activities regulation and their language disciplines educational material content assimilation.

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Distance education didactic principles application in teaching

The purpose of the present article was to examine the advantages and disadvantages of using synonymous words to define the meaning of a headword in English monolingual lexicography. The topicality of the study lies in the fact that, despite different opinions on the feasibility of this definition method, the latter has been widely used in English dictionaries for several centuries and is currently used. The authors proceeded from the Russian linguists’ point of view, treating synonyms not as equivalent words, but as lexical units belonging to the same thematic group and so similar in meaning that their correct use in speech is impossible without accurate knowledge of their distinctive(semantic, stylistic, contextual) features. Synonymic definition has been considered as a kind of the language metalinguistic function implementation. The authors of the article highlight one of the ways to implement the metalinguistic function – synonymous intra-linguistic translation.

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Boris Soldatov

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Distance education didactic principles application in teaching

On the issue of synonymic definitions acceptability in English monolingual lexicography