Keywords:
communicative competence developing
foreign language
mobile application
non-philological specialties

  • Abstract

    Using mobile apps for learning professionally oriented English is highly topical and widely recognized as an effective and convenient method for language acquisition. Mobile apps provide a range of benefits that contribute to their popularity among undergraduates. The key reasons why using mobile apps for learning English is considered topical: accessibility, convenience, interactive and engaging content, personalized learning, variety of learning materials, social and community features, progress tracking. So, the aim of the paper is to study the effectiveness of mobile applications for learning professional English during the study at higher education institutions in Ukraine. Instruments of data collection used were analysis of scientific sources, questionnaires, interviews, and focused group discussion. The results of questionnaires and interviews prove the need to use mobile apps for developing the level of English by students of higher education institutions. Searching the problem provide the opportunities to determine the most used mobile apps for studying English and describe their advantages in the process of learning English in non-linguistic specialties. The process of learning English at higher education establishments aimed at using mobile apps proved the effectiveness of such process because of increasing English level of Ukrainian higher education students.

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Melnychuk, O., Ardelian, O., Pinchuk, I., Kuzminska, Y., & Tovtyn, Y. (2024). The effectiveness of using mobile applications for studying in non-language specialties at higher education institutions. Multidisciplinary Science Journal, 6(10), 2024210. https://doi.org/10.31893/multiscience.2024210
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