Relevant Aspects of Foreign Language Teaching During the War in Ukraine

The education system is one of those areas that have felt the most negative impact ofmilitary operations in Ukraine. The use of a wide range of ICT improved the actualquality of teaching disciplines in institutions of higher education, and ensured thetransition of Ukrainian education to a new level. However, the rapid spread of distanceeducation in the world not only opened wide opportunities for students and teachers,but also posed many challenges to them. The work emphasizes that distance learningmethods are not appropriate enough in the conditions of war in Ukraine, and mighteven lose their effectiveness, need to be revised, adapted and improved. The articlestates that the integration of ICT in education serves many purposes, the mostimportant of which are free access to educational materials, high mobility andconvenience. The authors highlighted the most effective methods for ensuring asufficient level of foreign language training in the conditions of distance education,among which they singled out the communicative method, the project method, and thesimulation method, the implementation of which is supported by the use of videoconferencing tools and distance learning environments. The main shortcomings andobstacles in the organization of the learning process were characterized and solutionswere proposed taking into account modern realities in Ukraine. Problems of atechnical nature, the instability of the security situation, being in different countries ofthe world lead to the fact that the existing teaching methods need to be revised,constantly adapted to the rapidly changing situation, and in some places, theycompletely lose their relevance. At present, the success of students' training dependsprimarily on the readiness and ability of the teacher to organize the most flexibletraining process.