Digital Environment as A Way to Intensify the Process of Teaching a Foreign Language in Senior School (On the Example of English and Chinese)

Introduction. In the era of a multipolar world, knowledge of foreign languages such as English and Chinese is 
becoming an important strategic objective for Russia. This research focuses on optimizing foreign language teaching in 
the context of digitalization of education. The key idea of the article is that the use of digital technologies in education 
corresponds to the new worldview of modern high school students. 
The purpose of the study is to analyze the effectiveness of digital educational resources and identify their linguodidactic 
potential in teaching English and Chinese to high school students based on theoretical and practical aspects.
Materials and methods. To address the objectives of this study, scientific and methodological articles from periodicals, 
dissertations, and monographs by Russian and foreign authors on this topic were analyzed. The experimental work was 
carried out at the Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution “Gymnasium No. 11 of Yelets” from September 2024 to May 
2025 which covered 28 students in Year 10 at school. The students were divided into two groups: control (14 students) 
and experimental (14 students). The experiment included entry and final tests. To test the hypothesis of improved results, 
the following methods were used: Paired Student’s t-test (main analysis), Wilcoxon’s signed-rank test for related samples 
(nonparametric test for violations of normality), and Effect size calculation (Cohen’s d for related samples).
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Research results. The results of the experiment, entry and final testing, surveys of school teachers, and analysis of 
sources on the research topic support the validity of the assumption regarding the effectiveness of the use of digital 
resources for the intensification of the English language learning process, the assimilation of a greater volume of 
information in a shorter time, and an increase of interest and motivation in the subject being studied. The effect is 
statistically significant at moderate size (d = 0.65-0.73).
Conclusion. A particular feature of foreign language teaching in high school at the current stage of social development 
is the increasing need to employ innovative teaching methods, including the use of digital resources. The obtained 
results indicate that the use of digital resources in the context of a digital educational environment contributes to the 
intensification of the learning process in English and Chinese, namely, the development of subject-specific, meta
subject, and personal learning outcomes, the assimilation of a greater volume of information in a shorter time, and 
increased interest and motivation in the subject being studied.