Using Innovative Control in Distance Learning of Mining Students to Foreign Languages in the Context of Pandemic

This article presents innovative control methods used in the online foreign language learning of mining students of a technical university in forced conditions caused by the global pandemic which has been provoked by the coronavirus. The authors of this article substantiate the important role of intermediate control, give a detailed description of its functional tasks and note its intermediary mission by which feedback between a teacher and a student is created which is a necessary factor for the successful formation of language competence as an integral part of professional foreign-language communicative competence in distance learning. The authors of the article have developed a whole range of innovative items in the form of faceted testtables which are successfully used in foreign-language distance learning of mining students in the context of a pandemic