Application of the Digital Footprint in Teaching English to Engineering Students

Using the empirical method of investigation the authors developed a professionally oriented course of English based on the didactic potential of digital technologies. The approach includes the stages of teaching the language in integration with various forms of interaction between subjects of the educational process through persistent chat-based collaboration platform and online services. The authors determined the structural and informative characteristics of the educational footprint as a way to organise individual educational paths in the developed course. Practical use of the research results contributes to the improvement of teaching English to students of technical specialities.