The overview of digital instruments and mobile applications for EFL at school

Abstract

These days it is impossible to imagine everyday routine without digital technologies and the sphere of education is not an exception. The use of digital technologies for educational process is becoming especially relevant because they create new opportunities for studying and assist to make lessons more attractive, useful and productive for learners. The aim of the article is to reveal the tendency of using digital technologies by teachers at the lessons and define the most popular ones. This article discusses a variety of digital instruments and mobile applications for learning English used for different educational purposes by both teachers and learners. The article provides an experience of using digital instruments and mobile applications by school teachers based on data collection, generated from the survey. The survey results have shown that most school teachers have regular tendency to apply digital technologies and mobile applications at their lessons to make it more interesting for learners, however, some school teachers considering these technologies useful still rarely or never apply them at their lessons. The article findings can benefit teachers with identified variety of digital instruments and mobile applications for teaching and assist to engage learners into the process of teaching a foreign language efficiently.