The article investigates the principle of information technology specialists' competence formation in the conditions of globalization and integration economic processes. In the course of the study, the factors determining the necessity of IT specialists' fluency in foreign languages, in particular in English of professional communication, are identified. Such processes are analyzed on the basis of the theoretical grounding of the researchers on this topic. The relevance of the article is due to the needs of today's globalized society in the context of the development of informatization and digitalization. The study clarifies the essence of English-language lexical competence of future specialists in information technology, identifies the pedagogical conditions, the theoretical rationale, practical development and experimental testing of the methodology for forming English-language lexical competence in future specialists in information technologies within the framework of masters’ degree programmes. The stages of formation of such competence in future IT specialists were determined, a system of tasks for forming English-language lexically competence (ELC) in professionally oriented written communication (POWS) was substantiated and concluded, a linguodidactic model was designed, an algorithm of collective preparation of a written product was proposed. Importantly, the article interprets the results of the experiment in order to verify the effectiveness of the developed method of forming their ELC. The method of analysis, synthesis, research and comparative generalizing method, problem solving method and information and communication method were used for research, a methodical experiment was conducted. On the basis of the obtained data the hypothesis about the effectiveness of the methodology of ELC formation in the POWS of future IT-specialists is confirmed.

The collective monograph is a scientific and practical publication that contains scientific articles by doctors and candidates of sciences, doctors of philosophy and art, graduate students, students, researchers and practitioners from European and other countries. The articles contain research that reflects current processes and trends in world science.

The modern system of higher education requires the use of the latest information and communication technologies (ICT) for the thorough organization of the educational process and comprehensive coverage of effective methods and means of teaching in universities. By virtue of its specificity, the crowdsourcing model of searching, analyzing, collecting and interpreting information has always been more complementary to the business sphere, where it is required to reduce the cost of processing a large amount of data by many participants in the process. But in recent years, this methodology has begun to spread to the education sector, which has its positive and negative sides. Crowdsourcing is one of the least common and little-researched teaching methods for attracting ICT in the modern educational space. The article describes the main definitions of the concept of “crowdsourcing”, highlights the methods and means of its application in the system of modern higher education, analyzes the positive and negative aspects of the use of crowdsourcing in the educational space of universities, suggests ways of assimilation of crowd technologies with teaching philological disciplines. Selected areas of application of crowdsourcing have advantages over traditional models of research procedures in the teaching of philological disciplines in higher education institutions (lower cost, higher speed or productivity, etc.). Crowdsourcing opportunities for the organization of auxiliary research procedures during teaching philological disciplines should attract the attention of applied and academic researchers. This type of crowdsourcing application meets the need to work with a growing amount of data and can be effectively implemented using existing ICT.