Formation of Foreign Language Interaction Skills of Students in a University's Digital Educational Environment

The subject of this study is the specific character of developing foreign language interaction skills in a university's modern digital educational environment and its transformative influence on the structure and characteristics of foreign language interaction among students. The interaction of subjects of the educational process can be considered as a manifestation of individual methods of action and communication between a teacher and a student in a digital educational environment, aimed at each other, determined by their functional role and personal positions, the consequence of which is mutual changes in the activities, communication, and relationships of participants in the pedagogical process, as well as their individual development. The research methodology included an analysis of scientific literature on the problem of foreign language interaction in the digital educational environment. The analysis results were systematized and generalized to create organizational and pedagogical conditions that reflect the characteristics of the subjects of pedagogical interaction in the digital educational environment. The study's novelty lies in the fact that the types, participants, and features of interaction in the digital educational environment are identified. It is noted that foreign language interaction in digitalization has its characteristics, including the digital educational environment as a mediator between the student and the teacher. The digital educational environment plays a dual role, being an educational environment for organizing learning in a digital educational environment and having specific features that affect the educational and pedagogical interaction process in digitalization. In conclusion, it is noted that the study made it possible to identify the characteristics of subjects of foreign language interaction in the context of digitalization.