Innovative technology «Flipped Classroom» use in foreign language teaching at a technical university

The following paper considers the application of innovative technology flipped classroom in foreign language teaching combining with the team learning at a technical university. The new approach to teaching is caused by the increasing role of self-education within the framework of cultural competence of modern specialist. So the modern educational technologies have to develop students learning skills. The advantages presented by the flipped classroom technology are the increasing time for the individual work with students, the opportunity to provide additional cultural knowledge through a careful selection of the learning content on the one hand, as well as developing of the students ability to self-organization and self-education on the other. The paper presents the main approaches to the definition of the flipped classroom technology, its advantages and disadvantages, possible technical difficulties and the positive effect that can be achieved while using the flipped classroom technology at a technical university.