Desyatova Olga V., Andrianova Olga A. Digital Educational resources in Teaching professional English Communication

This article considers the issue of using the digital environment in teaching professional communication at a non-linguistic university and aims to specify the role of digital educational resources in business English courses and improve the standard of higher education. The relevance of the issue under consideration is due to the intensified introduction of digital resources in higher education. In this paper, the authors apply theoretical and empirical methods of analysis, consider modern approaches to the classification of digital educational resources for learning English, categorize digital resources in accordance with the degree of their accessibility, and study ways to apply the communicative approach in teaching students a foreign language for special purposes, with the purpose of building and developing productive and receptive skills that future specialists will practice in their professional activities. The authors also analyse the results of a survey conducted among students about the experience of using a multimedia program based on the Moodle educational platform as a part of a business English course. The researchers come to the conclusion that the use of computer technology with a well-planned training programme not only makes the process of learning a foreign language more attractive and interesting to students, but also contributes to the more effective development of their receptive and productive skills

Categorization · Empirical research · Foreign language · Information and Communications Technology · Professional communication · Professional development · Educational Innovations and Challenges · Foreign Language Teaching Methods · Innovations in Education and Learning Technologies

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