Abstract: Integration of Russia in an integrated global educational and information space causes the appearance of new strategic missions, including the introduction and application of modern information and telecommunication technologies of education. Therefore, the subject of this study is modern information and communication technologies, ensuring the efficiency of linguistic and communicative competences development of students. The object of the study is the process of foreign language training in terms of a modern digital learning environment. The author examines the necessity of implementation of information and communication technologies in the educational space of the educational organization in the conditions of widespread digitalization. Special attention is paid to the most common information technologies such as Internet simulators, electronic libraries, online dictionaries, chats, podcasts, educational programs of the YouTube channel, computer testing, Moodle learning management system. The main methods of the research were the collection, analysis and systematization of scientific and methodological literature and regulations on research, questionnaires, and statistical methods of processing the obtained results. The novelty of the research is due to the analysis of the results of the survey of students about the use of information technologies in the process of studying a foreign language. The authors come to the conclusion that the use of ICT in the teaching of a foreign language, both in the opinion of experts and in the opinion of students, contributes to the effectiveness of the educational process, helps to strengthen the practical orientation of classes through a rational combination of traditional and electronic forms of education.

Abstract: In this article Rolgayzer describes the main means of the language-related categorization of celestial bodies in the Russian and French languages. The researcher also defines the most efficient lexico-grammatical means that express categories of evaluation, time, amount and dimension. The phenomenon of categorization covers all spheres and aspects of human existence. The subject of the research is the language-related objectivation of category features as one of the ways  to order and describe the conceptual picture of the world. The object of the research is celestial bodies concepts verbalized in the form of Sun, Moon and Stars. In the course of the research the author has used the method of the conceptual analysis to define and describe category features constituting the structure of the viewed concepts as well as the method of the contextual analysis. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author defines category features of celestial bodies concepts in terms of Russian and French linguocultures. The main conclusion of the research is that categorization is one of the basic terms of the humanity and the main means of the systematizatino of objects and phenomena in the surrounding world.