Обучение студентов профессиональному иностранному языку с использованием цифровых технологий

Abstract

The development of professional foreign language communicative competence in all the variety of components is one of the goals of teaching a professional foreign language to students of non-linguistic programmes and specialties in universities. At the same time, the choice in favor of one of the methodical approaches to teaching – a foreign language for specific purposes or content and language integrated learning – is directly dependent on the learning objectives and the level of students’ proficiency of a foreign language, as well as the level of development of their profes-sional competencies. The pandemic of coronavirus infection COVID-19 contributed to the wide-spread introduction of digital technologies in the process of teaching a foreign language at a uni-versity. However, the use of specific digital technology depends on the choice of a methodical ap-proach to teaching a professional foreign language. The purpose of the study is to develop a matrix of digital technologies in teaching a professional foreign language. An analysis is made of methodical researches devoted to the description of the content of a foreign language for specific purposes and an integrated approach, as well as the linguodidactic potential of such digital technologies as: multimedia programs, blogs, wiki services, podcasts, language corpora of texts. A matrix of digital technologies in teaching a professional foreign language is developed. The matrix shows which digital technology within which methodical approach can be used in the educational process.