Digital Educational Resources in Teaching Professional English Communication

The 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 a digital educational resource in business English courses and to further upgrade higher education. The relevance of the issue under consideration is due to the intensified intro­duction of digital resources in higher education. In this research the authors apply theoret­ical and empirical methods of analysis, consider modern approaches to the classification of digital educational resources for learning English, classify digital resources in accord­ance with the degree of their accessibility, study the ways of applying the communicative approach in teaching students a foreign language for special purposes, aimed at building and developing productive and receptive skills that future specialists will practice in their professional activities. The authors also analyze the results of a survey conducted among students about the experience of using a multimedia program based on Moodle educa­tional software 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 program not only makes the process of learning a foreign language more attractive and interesting to students, but also contributes to a more effective development of their receptive and productive skills.

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