The topic of the section will cover a number of current problems and ways to solve them, taking into account such factors as the globalization of education and international standardization of requirements for foreign language proficiency, the development of modern information technologies and their linguodidactic potential, new approaches to teaching foreign languages of a professional nature. The work of the research section within the economic forum will help, firstly, to understand the most pressing challenges in the field of forming communicative skills and competencies among specialists in economic specialties and to outline the main areas of further work; secondly, to exchange experience in the successful implementation of programs for the formation of academic skills at the Faculty of Economics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and in other domestic and foreign universities; thirdly, to develop a strategy for updating further research in the context of global challenges and new requirements for teaching and learning foreign languages.