This article is devoted to the problem of modern technical means usage in the process of language teaching in higher education at a non-language profile. New information technologies are becoming an essential part of the process of teaching a foreign language in higher school, giving new opportunities for the effective language learning, making the process more meaningful, interesting, differentiated, flexible and comfortable, based on the use of the latest achievements of information and communication technologies. The article shows in detail the main characteristics of training with the use of new information technologies and the possibilities of their application in the educational process.

foreign language, non-linguistic University, information technologies, distance learning, m-learning

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