The article deals with the problems of second foreign language teaching to non-linguistic-majoring students based on plurilingual approach. The concept of plurilingualism is defined in the article. The principles of second foreign language learning are revealed, comparative characteristics of English, French, German and Polish for their successful acquiring and use in professional activity (for special purposes) are given. New teaching methods for ensuring plurilingual abilities of future specialists in Economics, Law, and Landscape Gardening are worked out, recommendations for the efficiency of second foreign language teaching are considered. Special attention is paid to plurilingual approach while fulfilment of the given research.

This paper presents innovative approaches to improving lexical competence of non-linguistic students. The authors analyze the concept of terminological vocabulary in professional discourse, paying special attention to peculiarities of teaching vocational-oriented vocabulary to non-linguistic majoring students. Pedagogical technologies based on plurilingual approach in teaching professionally oriented vocabulary are offered in this article. The authors disclose the main features of acquiring professionally oriented vocabulary in distance learning and its effect on the learning process. Furthermore, the best practices for the English-German-French combination are explored in teaching non-linguistic students professionnally oriented vocabulary from a plurilingual and communicative perspective. The findings also show that these activities not only motivate learners to be engaged in meaningful language learning experience, but also encourage them to improve their plurilingual communicative competence, therefore enrich their professionnally oriented vocabulary. The focus lies on exploring the use of plurilingual approach as an effective means for improving professional linguistic competence. Recommendations for teachers and non-linguistic students on mastering their professionnally oriented vocabulary are presented in this paper.

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The purpose of this study is to identify innovative ways of enhancing communication skills in English. The article gives an overview of available technologies for foreign language teaching. The authors emphasize the importance of using digital tools in the learning process and introduce some teachers’ experience of integrating web technologies into practice.