Multilingual Education: Development of Professional Foreign Language Communicative Competence of Students in a Digital Environment

Abstract

The purpose of the study is the research of the opportunities for developing professional foreign language communicative competence within the concept of multilingual education. The study is based on the method of the experiment presented by a survey of students. The course was tested by 70 Master's degree students of Gumilyov Eurasian National University. The functionality of the Google Meet communication platform and mobile applications have created a comfortable environment for learning Business English. The educational course revealed students' ability to carry out high-quality communication. The results show that students improved their skills in spontaneous business discussion with rational construction of communication, proper speech intonation, lexical sufficiency within the framework of speech topics, and grammatical correctness. The practical significance and prospects for further research are presented by the opportunity of using the developed methodology in the process of communicative competency formation by students of different specialties.