Abstract
In the context of the globalization of the digital economy, the transnational nature of the IT industry, and the rapid development of information and communications technologies, proficiency in a foreign language, primarily English, is becoming an integral component of the professional training of future IT engineers. Consequently, higher education institutions face the challenge of training highly qualified specialists who are not only competent professionals in the IT field but are also capable of working within an English-language communicative environment encompassing international projects, professional communities, software documentation, etc. In this regard, the formation of professionally oriented foreign language competence is a fundamental requirement for the professional training of IT graduates. Currently, one of the most common approaches to developing this competence in non-linguistic universities is English as a Medium Instruction (EMI). Accordingly, the present study aims to Our study aims to identify students' attitudes and interest in the formation of foreign language professionally oriented competence of future IT engineers based on EMI and to describe its current state based on empirical data. The study utilized theoretical, empirical, and statistical methods. A comprehensive review of the scientific literature was conducted. A survey was administered to 132 IT students at M. Auezov South Kazakhstan University, and the data were processed using SPSS Statistics. The findings indicate that future IT engineers demonstrate a strong interest in developing professionally oriented foreign language competence and are motivated to enhance their professional knowledge and skills. Therefore, the proposed solution to this problem involves introducing EMI-based teaching aids into higher education, developing an EMI-based model, and implementing mechanisms for systemic language support for professional subject-specific learning, all of which will contribute to improving the system of higher technical education.