Developing Technical Students’ Foreign-Language Communicative Skills in the Course of Distance Teaching

Abstract

The article proposes methodology to develop technical students’ foreign-language communicative competence in virtual educational environment. The author describes theoretical and methodological approaches that reveal systemic, competence-based and activity-based foundations of the process under study. Scientific originality of the paper is conditioned by the fact that the researcher introduces methodology to develop future engineers’ foreign-language communicative skills in the course of distance teaching, suggests a set of foreign-language exercises for distance learners. Experiment results indicate increase in target students’ communicative competence.