The paper under consideration is devoted to the issues of foreign language training of the technical university students — future aviation specialists, as well as the foreign reading skills development. According to the analysis of the scientific literature and comparing both foreign and domestic teaching experience, the intensification and improvement of this process has proved to be extremely relevant within the modern paradigm of higher education, due to the common use of English in the aviation industry.

The paper discusses issues connected with Internet-based vocabulary training at foreign language classes in nonlinguistic university. The advantages of usage of Internet-resources are presented. Internet is considered as a training tool of various kinds of speech activity at foreign language classes. Having proved the importance and necessity of the implementation of Internet technologies in foreign language training, we have identified and described Internet resources that allow enlarging vocabulary as it contributes to mastering various aspects of speech activity.