Contemporary challenges have forced the educational community to turn to distance learning technologies. In this regard, distance learning has a significant impact on the quality of education, on the system of training and research activities, on the implementation of social and labour rights of teams and students. The issues of efficiency of perception of training material in a foreign language, assimilation of communicative skills, acquisition of professional and intercultural competences, psycho-emotional state of students and teachers become topical. When introducing information technologies into the educational process it is necessary to take into account the peculiarities of teaching a foreign language, which are due to the specifics of this subject.