Use of new information and communication technologies in teaching foreign languages to technical students

The article reveals new methods of effectiveness increase in teaching foreign languages to technical students using information and communication technologies and their practical implementation at the premises of the Foreign Languages Resource Center of Siberian State Aerospace University. Adoption of information and communication technologies to the educational process is based on students’ independent language learning that encourages more productive development of language competences mastered by students and future specialists in a special area of technical knowledge as a whole.