Distant learning technology (with the use of computer information technology) in foreign language teaching at technical universities

The article highlights the problem of foreign language teaching in the process of distant learning in nonlinguistic universities. The article gives the details of different forms of distant learning with the use of innovative computer technologies in order to build communicative competence among students. The tutor’s part and objective in the process of distant learning are determined. Actual experience in using distant learning techniques on the base of Povolzhskiy State University of Telecommunications and Informatics is given. Using this educational platform, we consider it together with traditional ways of teaching, while during the pandemic it has been the only way of teaching. Distant learning is aimed to raise he effectiveness of students’ self-guided work and supposes searching and information analysis to be ready for the class. The most important advantage is that students being an active part of educational process can easily connect and communicate with the tutor via the Internet.