Pedagogical conditions for the development of foreign-language communicative competences among students of field 12 – Information Technology

The article analyses the definitions of ‘pedagogical conditions’ and ‘foreign language communicative competence’. It is noted that European integration processes, the spread of multicultural education and Ukraine's active participation in international educational programs have led to an increase in the requirements for the level of foreign language proficiency among students for higher and professional higher education. The relevance of the study is due to globalisation processes that put forward new requirements for the training of specialists and foreign language proficiency is becoming an integral part of professional activities in the field of information technology. The scientific novelty of the study is to substantiate the pedagogical conditions for the development of foreign language communicative competence, taking into account the specifics of training specialists in the field of information technology. It has been determined that the successful formation of foreign language communicative competence in information technology students depends on a set of pedagogical conditions. The first pedagogical condition is the formation of motivation for future IT specialists to learn foreign languages; the second pedagogical condition is the systematic use of digital interactive technologies as a means of forming foreign-language pedagogical competencies; the third pedagogical condition is the creation of professionally directed educational and methodological support (workbooks in English for professional purposes for each semester) for foreign language training of future IT specialists in institutions of professional higher education; the fourth pedagogical condition is the readiness of foreign language teachers to use professionally directed educational and methodological support. As a result of the study, recommendations have been developed for the implementation of effective foreign language teaching strategies that will help improve the level of foreign language communicative competence of future specialists in Industry 12 – Information Technology. The recommendations cover such aspects as the selection of teaching materials, the use of interactive teaching methods, the development of workbooks, the use of digital technologies, the organisation of the educational process and the assessment of learning outcomes.