Abstract
The article presents the results of the theoretical analysis of the use of educational web-sites as an additional online resource in the educational process of English learning. The goal of the article is to consider the didactic potential of using educational web-sites for the formation of English communicative competency of high school students of general secondary education institutions nowadays. A number of scientific methods were used to realize the goal of the research, the most important of which are: theoretical analysis of scientific and methodological literature on the problems of using information and communication technologies in the educational process of foreign languages; system analysis in order to study the functional capabilities of educational web-sites; the sampling method, which contributed to the rapid processing of information in order to single out certain communicative tasks offered by educational websites for their analysis. Results. According to the results of the study, the advantages of educational websites for improving educational results in the subject «The English language» of students of education were determined. The author notes that the introduction of innovative technologies makes it possible to solve effectively such problems as strengthening the role of selfeducation of high school students, changing the pedagogical methods, introducing the active methods and modern information technologies. In conclusions the author states that the English educational web-sites should be used both for self-education of high school students, individual or group classes with a tutor, and as a supplement to the basic educational subject «The English language» in high schools. Finally, the author concludes that English teachers have to encourage their students in practicing the exercises from the educational web-sites as much as possible since this is the wright way of developing the communicative competencies in listening, speaking, reading and writing
Keywords
competency formation, English communicative competency, digitalization of education, educational web-site, subject «The English language»
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