Integrating ICT into Teaching Foreign Languages for Future Mining Engineers as a Factor of Mining Industry Innovative Development

Abstract

The Kemerovo Region is the leading coal cluster of Russia and Europe, where about 60% of all domestic coal is mined, 42 mines and 51 open-pit mines are operating, as well as 54 coal processing plants and installations. At the beginning of 2019, more than 90 thousand people worked in the coal industry of Kuzbass. The task of increasing the labor productivity of coal enterprises is largely determined by personnel potential, which is the main productive force in the post-industrial era. Enterprise staff is the creator of all the material and intellectual values of the coal industry, without exception. Today, the maximum use of all available internal production resources depends on the quality of university training of miners, the formation of their professional and communicative competences. This study focuses on the use of new technologies in learning foreign language by future mining engineers. It discusses a variety of attitudes and incentives which support the readiness of students in this field to increase their learning skills through using ICT. In this paper, the authors review practices and experience of using the technology in classroom summarized in expert opinions of foreign language teachers working with undergraduate students – future mining engineers.