Abstract
This article examines the didactic tasks to be solved and didactic results to be achieved by means ofproject technologies for the purpose of foreign language education; projects pragmatic orientation;projecttypology, namely the projects subject-content area, its nature of coordination, the nature of contacts, thenumber of participants and its duration; competencies formed in the process of informational-searching,research, creative and analytical-predictive project activities;project technologies features, such as communication, problematic orientation, context, integration, cooperation and creativity; and project technologies functions, such as motivational, informational, managerial, projecting and diagnostic.