SOME TRENDS OF ICT APPLICATION IN RUSSIAN RESEARCH PAPERS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES TEACHING AT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (2012-2017)

The article outlines some statistical research-based trends in the field of ICT usage in Foreign Languages and Translation Studies teaching at Higher Education (HE) institutions in Russia (2012-2017).

The aim was to identify application of ICT, any digital, mobile, CALL, online or Blended approaches, integrating international or local software in linguistic education mentioned in Russian professional research papers within 2012-2017 applied at Universities. 

As a result, some new shifts and main HE institutions in scientific research of ICT application for language education are identified through collecting and analyzing of Russian academic papers on the official state open online database.

Database, random selection criteria, research steps, some findings as  well  as  analytical and quantitative methods peculiarities are also briefly exposed and visualized on  the table and the diagrams.

As a whole, the article could be interesting to international researchers of similar problems in the field of eLearning and any Higher Education teachers, practicing eLearning or Blended education in Linguistics and Translation Studies.