Virtual Reality as a Communication Space in the Process of Distance Learning of Foreign Languages

   The article examines the concept of virtuality from Antiquity to the present in connection with the implementation of educational activities aimed at mastering a foreign language in a remote format. The article considers the essence and nature of the joint activity of the student and the teacher in the light of the main approaches in modern scientific knowledge.

   The aim is to determine, in the course of analyzing the research of scientists of previous centuries and the present, the necessary conditions for creating a virtual communicative space that ensures rapid and high-quality mastery of a foreign language, on the one hand, and adaptation due to differences between native and non-native cultures, on the other.

   The object of the research is the process of mastering a foreign language in the conditions of distance learning as a new reality in the era of modern globalization.

   The subject of the research is virtual reality as a communicative space in the process of distance learning of foreign languages.
   The methodological basis of the research is the achievements in the field of linguistic and linguistic-philosophical consideration of the problem of the development and study of a foreign language in the context of virtuality. The article analyzes the specifics of the concept of virtuality as a multidimensional phenomenon that affects various problems of the virtualization process. It is based on the principle of continuity of ideas in the research process, taking into consideration and theoretical analysis of the experience of modern authors engaged in practical activities related to the teaching of foreign languages, and theoretical research in the field of language theory, psycholinguistics, linguodidactics, sociology and philosophy. The method of hermeneutical and contextual analysis is used, which has been developed in the works of both modern authors and researchers of previous centuries. The article explicates the concept of "virtuality". Finally, the features of the virtual communicative space for the remote format of educational activities aimed at the successful mastery of a foreign language by an individual and ensuring readiness for integration into another socio-cultural environment are formulated.

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