Abstract
The article deals with the role and place of IT in language teaching in a technical university. In the article the peculiarities and didactic functions of IT affecting the formation of practical skills of students in technical specialties were discussed. It was emphasized that technology of teaching is subjected to its content. The forms, methods and means of study affecting the purposeful educational work of a teacher and a student were underlined. This helps to improve students’ knowledge, to form and activate their cognitive skills and to broaden their professional experience. Special attention was paid to the technology of project activity, which is the basis of the methodology of teaching a professionally-oriented language in a technical university. Besides, the experimental training on the approbation of the developed methodology was described, the results of the study were presented, general conclusions were formulated, and prospects for further study of the problem were outlined.