The use of QR-codes in teaching a foreign language to the future educators

Abstract

rapid development of information and communication technologies significantly affects all spheres of human life. According to the research, the representatives of the internet (digital) generation (generation Z), the young people who are mostly the students of higher educational institutions, are considered to be a special category concerning the perception and analysis of information. One of the interesting modern information and interactive technologies is the use of QR-codes, which is an interactive Internet technology that encourages students to learn the program material. The article deals with the peculiarities and main advantages of the use of QR-codes in teaching a foreign language to the future educators, because the teachers have to become the main helpers in mastering effective innovative technologies and techniques in students’ acquisition of new knowledge, especially in learning foreign languages. In turn, knowledge of a foreign language greatly facilitates the work with modern innovative technologies, and, consequently improves the life.