Formation of engineer’s professional communacative personality in the context of practice-oriented approach based on artificial intelligence technologies

Statement of the problem. The article analyzes problems of forming the engineer’s professional communicative personality through practice-oriented foreign language teaching. Particular attention has been paid to the use of artificial intelligence (hereinafter referred to as AI) technologies in solving industrial-situational problems that simulate the professional communication of future specialists, as current science does not address the specifics of their application in the context of forming an engineer’s professional communicative personality. The purpose of the article is to identify and justify the use of AI technologies, to reveal their functionality in solving educational, cognitive, and scientific research problems in the process of developing an engineer’s professional communicative personality, and to determine the prospects for their application in the process of teaching foreign languages. Methodology (materials and methods). The methodology consists of analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature devoted to the characteristics of artificial intelligence technologies in solving educational, cognitive, and scientific research problems in the process of forming an engineer’s professional communicative personality within the framework of a practice-oriented approach. Synthesis of practical experience in implementing AI technologies in foreign language teaching allowed us to identify their functionality and the sequence of their use in the process of understanding foreign practical experience in various fields of science and technology through search-reference reading of scientific articles, the compilation of a professional vocabulary, the automatic creation of annotations, summaries, reports, and the visualization of scientific research data. Research results. The concept of an ‘engineer’s professional communicative personality’ is defined as the result of practice-oriented teaching of a foreign language. The result requires assessment, by a potential employer as well, based on solving production and situational problems correlating with the professional activities of future engineers. An algorithm has been identified and presented for solving an industrial-situational problem. The task was completed by students enrolled in engineering programs at Siberian Federal University using AI technologies such as Curipod, ELSA Speak, and QuillBot. Conclusion. The prospects for studying a practice-oriented approach in the context of forming an engineer’s professional communicative personality are determined by further research of positive experience and replicating the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the process of teaching a foreign language.