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The 2019 coronavirus pandemic had a significant impact on the development of new innovative methods and forms of foreign language teaching that can organize distance or blended learning of a foreign language and continue to develop students’ subcompetencies that are part of a foreign language communicative competence. The project method is one of the problem-based teaching methods aimed at enhancing the speech-thinking activity of students in the process of completing a number of tasks. Its unique characteristic lies in the fact that this method can be used both in classroom and in blended or distance learning. However, despite the fact that in the methodic literature there are many studies devoted to the development of specific methods of foreign language teaching (aspects of language and types of speech activity) through information and communication technologies, the researchers did not come to a consensus on what stages the project methods should include. In our work, based on the analysis of the methodic literature, we identify eight stages of organizing the project work of linguistic university students. These include: 1) goal setting; 2) discussion of technical issues of organizing design work; 3) search, collection and processing of the necessary information on the Internet; 4) work on the project; 5) feedback from the teacher and students; 6) work to improve the draft version of the project; 7) presentation of the project; 8) project evaluation. An analysis of some well-known methodic studies devoted to the organization of project work of pupils and students is given, as well as a detailed description of stages of teaching.

Digital technologies quickly and organically entered the life of a modern person. Moreover, the informatization of society has influenced the digitalization of education. Over the past 10–15 years, a solid body of scientific methodic works has appeared on the use of modern digital technologies in the development of foreign language speech skills and the development of students’ language skills, the development of their socio-cultural, intercultural, pragmatic and other types of competencies. Despite the linguodidactic potential and innovativeness of new methods of language teaching based on digital technologies, until 2019 the volume of use of information and communication technologies in the educational process was small. The 2019 coronavirus pandemic forced scientists and practicing teachers in extreme conditions to realistically assess the richness of the choice of digital technologies and rethink the need for each specific technology to solve specific educational problems. This is how the process of “withering away” of some technologies or “absorption” of some technologies by others began. A review of methodic works on the development of methods of foreign language teaching based on e-mail, web forum, blog technology, social service “Twitter”, wiki technology, podcasts and electronic text corpus is carried out. As a result, a conclusion is made about the relevance of four digital technologies that are integrated into modern university educational platforms. These include: blog technology, wiki technology, podcasts, and electronic corpus.

The development of professional foreign language communicative competence in all the variety of components is one of the goals of teaching a professional foreign language to students of non-linguistic programmes and specialties in universities. At the same time, the choice in favor of one of the methodical approaches to teaching – a foreign language for specific purposes or content and language integrated learning – is directly dependent on the learning objectives and the level of students’ proficiency of a foreign language, as well as the level of development of their profes-sional competencies. The pandemic of coronavirus infection COVID-19 contributed to the wide-spread introduction of digital technologies in the process of teaching a foreign language at a uni-versity. However, the use of specific digital technology depends on the choice of a methodical ap-proach to teaching a professional foreign language. The purpose of the study is to develop a matrix of digital technologies in teaching a professional foreign language. An analysis is made of methodical researches devoted to the description of the content of a foreign language for specific purposes and an integrated approach, as well as the linguodidactic potential of such digital technologies as: multimedia programs, blogs, wiki services, podcasts, language corpora of texts. A matrix of digital technologies in teaching a professional foreign language is developed. The matrix shows which digital technology within which methodical approach can be used in the educational process.