The purpose of this research is to consider the most common difficulties faced by teachers of English for specific purposes from Chuvash University (Russia) in developing an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course for medical students and in the learning process. The objectives of the research are the challenges to ESP teachers that might impact the quality of the teaching process and hence the learners' academic achievements unless these challenges are removed. The authors not only reveal the difficulties in the learning process but offer possible solutions to overcome them. The study showed that the most common problems interfering with the efficacy and the quality of learning are the lack of updated teaching materials, the lack of cooperation of ESP teachers with fellow teachers conducting classes in medical disciplines and a low level of general English of students majoring in medicine. The possible solutions to these problems based on the data collected during the survey are proposed. The results represented in five-step ranking mode are summarized in the form of two tables, the first representing the hierarchy of difficulties and the second showing the willingness of ESP teachers to take a special training course. The authors believe resolution of the problems may facilitate the transition of ESP for medical students to digital ecosystem.

The modern stage of social development requires medical specialists to be proficient in a foreign language using it as a means of communication to solve professional and social problems. To achieve this purpose, it is necessary to establish a close link between the training process and the criteria and the content of the trainee’s professional activity. This involves solving the next task - identifying the communicative needs of a medical specialist when using a foreign language. To solve this problem, we undertook a study, which used a complex of methods: the study and analysis of scientific literature on the research topic, a survey using the developed questionnaire; methods of mathematical statistics for processing the results obtained during the survey. The survey was carried out among medical specialists of different categories working in medical institutions of the town of Cheboksary of the Chuvash Republic. The study revealed that the communicative needs of a medical specialist when using a foreign language are primarily pragmatic, so the process of teaching a foreign language should be profession-oriented, be subject to the main professional activity and contribute to solving professional problems. The result of the given study is the creation of an online English course for higher medical schools students with the help of distance educational technologies. This course is created taking into account the functional and psychological features peculiar to this contingent of students as well as specifics of their future work activity, past language experience and specific aims and objectives.

Parental responsibility in the upbringing of children is often noted in the works of the oral folk art of the Chuvash people. Much is said about parenting in fairy tales, proverbs and sayings, it is sung about in the songs so much. Parents pass on their life, work and spiritual and moral experience to their children. The power of the parents' educational influence on their children is emphasized in proverbs and sayings.Children adorn life, strengthen the family and give joy. It is a child of a happy family who can become a support of the family, a protector of the native land and a future worker.Etnopedagogy pays a special attention to mothers in the upbringing of children. As E.I. Sokolnikova notes in her monograph, "a Chuvash woman in a family is a binding beginning, she completely determines the general spiritual and moral mood of the family". Special position of a mother in parenting is explained by the difficulties of caring for young children and the important role of the mother's school in shaping the younger generation.People have always emphasized the role of the mother in raising her daughter. This idea is reflected in the proverb: "Arçyn acha ashshĕ çumne çypăçat: hĕrachaamăshĕ çumne" (The son goes to the father, the daughter to the mother).Nowadays, it is very important for Chuvash women to realize their historical role in the implementation of national educational goals, in the preservation of customs, traditions, language (native tongue is called mother tongue not without reason), costumes and in passing them on to the younger generation.The solidarity of the Chuvash family, the national model of the family, admiration of parents and elders, and working traditions allow to involve children in the common problems and concerns of the whole family from an early age. The Chuvash child prepares himself for a hard life from the early years by the example of his parents.Even today, for the sake of their children's future, the Chuvash people are ready to make sacrifices; they sincerely protect their children from all kinds of inconveniences and deprivations, sometimes overprotecting them. Extreme care for children "Epir kurnine achasen kurmalla an pultăr" (What we had to endure, may our children not get it) sometimes hurt. However, adherence to family values, traditions, worldviews of Chuvash people most often allow them to find a way out of any difficult situation, to find their place in life. The Chuvash attitude to the role of father and mother in raising children is quite clear: "Chun parakan atte-anne