Digital education and technology are becoming a significant and integral part of everyday studying instruction, especially in the context of pandemic with COVID-19 and quarantine when traditional classroom teaching is impossible and it should be substituted with effective methods and instruments of teaching. With the widespread use of instructional technology, web-based educational resources are more and more integrated into the curriculum of higher education. The Internet is a significant toolkit for English as a Foreign Language learners because it provides them with authentic language input. On the other side, students turn to make hasty and random choices with little analysis and evaluation. A quest designed by means of digital resources may help to overcome this difficulty and can be considered an effective tool providing the formation and development of intercultural communicative competence among bachelor students within the framework of two disciplines: "English as a Foreign language" and "Theory and practice of intercultural communication". In the article the authors define the terms "quest" and "WebQucst", reveal the functions of educational quests, consider the existing classifications of quests, analyze the stages of work with a quest and possible algorithms, suggest the possible content of quests. and present the results of experimental education and provide some mechanisms for integrating quests into the process of forming intercultural communicative competence. (C) 2021 Published by European Publisher.
Quest Technology as Instrument of Intercultural Competence Development in Digital Education