Some Issues of Teaching English for Future IT-Specialists

The article focuses on the problem of training future IT-specialists in Ukraine, particularly, the English language training of Master students and the role of English for the future career of IT-specialists. The goal of the research is to determine the role of the English language competence for the specialists of IT-field and to find out the attitude of Master students to teaching English: relevance of including the discipline “Fundamentals of Scientific Communication in Foreign Language” in the curriculum of Master Course; the ratio of classroom activity to independent work; necessary focus of foreign language and the types of speech activity; relevance of attention to the grammar structure of the language; the preferred teaching methods; the frequency of using periodicals at the classes; the appropriate source of professionally oriented texts; the desired type of control.