Fokina S.L

Fast-growing digital economy in the current era of globalization makes instructors adapt to the new goals and objectives of teaching. Digital means of education, on-line courses, electronic educational resources are gaining more and more popularity. Digital educational environment is being formed that implies joint work of pedagogues and students as well as students’ preparation to their professional activity in the changing digital world.

The article deals with the peculiarities of studying special terminology by the students of non-linguistic departments. The purpose of the current research is to evaluate the level of professional terminology acquisition by the second-year students of the department “Nanotechnologies and microsystem engineering » at the Ivanovo State University. The material included the students’ written papers, in which they were given various tasks, concerning their knowledge of nanotechnological terminology.