Keyword: «foreign language education»

The article is devoted to the consideration of issues of professional foreign language competence of a modern teacher, the use of modern technologies in the process of teaching a foreign language, improving the professional competence of teaching staff and the formation of their professional readiness to solve problems in the field of teaching foreign languages and cultures.

This article focuses on examining the effectiveness of distance learning for specialized translation. The author analyzes the contemporary possibilities of distance learning technologies in teaching translation of specialized texts, and also discusses the advantages and challenges of this learning format. The article provides recommendations for optimizing the learning process taking into account the specifics of the online format, emphasizing the necessity to develop skills of independent work, self-organization, and effective use of modern online tools.

The article discusses the use of artificial intelligence in the work of an English teacher. Preparing an interesting and educational lesson and developing teaching materials for it takes a teacher quite a lot of time when using traditional approaches. Modern educational platforms using artificial intelligence can come to the teacher’s aid. They allow you not only to speed up the process of developing materials, but can also help make the lesson as informative, interesting and meeting your goals and objectives as possible. Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that artificial intelligence helps to monitor and adjust the educational process, which is more consistent with the requirements of modern digital society in general and education in particular.

Business communication is an integral part of professional activities in various fields, however, it continues to be mistakenly associated mainly with the social and humanitarian specialists and its presence in the curricula of IT training programs is insufficient. According to educational standards, business communication skill belongs to the group of universal competences and its development is often correlated with the discipline "Foreign Language", however, the practice of multidisciplinary universities gives the priority to ESP courses within this discipline. The requirements of IT professional standards contain generalized descriptions of proficiency in a foreign language, which complicates assigning the educational objectives. These contradictions confirm the relevance of the presented study, the aim of which is to identify indicators of the development of IT students’ foreign language business communication skills in terms of their future professional activity. To compass this purpose, theoretical and empirical research methods are used: analysis of relevant publications and global trends in the field of communication skills development; comparative analysis of the requirements of educational and professional standards for IT training programs outcomes, as well as their compliance with the concept of (foreign language) communicative competence. The analysis of publications reveals changes in the nomenclature describing learning outcomes. The comparative analysis of standards provides: 1) clarification of the skills necessary for business communication in the context IT specialists’ activities. These skills are subsequently divided into groups related to the components of (foreign language) communicative competence according to Jan A. van Ek model; 2) identifying of the indicators of IT students’ foreign language business communication skills based on activities manifested in the process of IT specialists’ professional performance. The theoretical significance of the obtained results is the specification of meta-educational constructs (competences) in terms of business communication in the context of technologically oriented professions. The practical significance of the obtained results is the possibility of optimizing training programs and developing new means of teaching business communication in areas where business communication is not a core aspect. Prospects for further research – to find methodological solutions for business communication skills development according to IT field requirements while studying the discipline "Foreign Language" within IT training programs.

The article examines the principle of autonomy of students and teachers in foreign language education. The relevance this principle for modern Russian reality is analyzed in accordance with the current federal state standard. Various approaches to understanding the autonomy of teachers are investigated, and the experience of teachers of Russian State University named after S.A.Yesenin on the successful implementation of the principle of autonomy in practice is also considered.