ELECTRONIC TESTING AS ONE OF THE MEANS OF MONITORING AND ASSESSING THE KNOWLEDGE OF STUDENTS OF A SPORTS UNIVERSITY IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the motivation of students of a non-linguistic higher educational institution (using the example of first— and second-year students of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution «Smolensk State University of Sports») to learn a foreign language. Replenishment of students’ vocabulary in the context of their future profession is highlighted and considered as the most important component of learning a foreign language, traditional methods of monitoring the development of professionally significant foreign language vocabulary are considered, as well as comparatively more innovative electronic control in the form of online tests. The article analyzes students’ academic performance and their subjective attitude to learning a foreign language, assessing their own knowledge and innovative control methods. The work is part of a study of the cognitive motivation of students at a non-linguistic university and the impact of assessment tools on it, and its result was the decision to use electronic knowledge control along with traditional methods of control when teaching a foreign language at Smolensk State University of Sports.