Mobile learning as a tool for motivating students to learn a foreign language in higher education

Introduction. The current stage of development of the system of foreign language educa-tion in Russia takes place within the framework of global digitalization. Mobile learning as one of its innovative tools is rapidly penetrating the process of mastering a foreign language, helping to diversify and optimize the learning process for the modern genera-tion of students. The use of mobile technologies in the foreign language educational process helps to increase the motivation of students to study a foreign language at a uni-versity. The purpose of the research is to study and analyze the impact of the use of mo-bile technologies in teaching a foreign language on the motivation of students to study the discipline. Materials and methods include: theoretical analysis of scientific, pedagog-ical and methodological literature on the research topic, pedagogical observation, ques-tionnaire, conversation, analysis of research results. In the foreign language educational process, along with traditional methods, elements of mobile learning were used to iden-tify its impact on the motivation of students to learn a foreign language. Results. Posi-tive dynamics was observed, the level of motivation for the discipline studied by stu-dents of experimental groups increased significantly compared to control groups. Con-clusions. Mobile technologies have didactic potential when learning a foreign language. Using them as a tool to create motivation for learning the subject, it is possible to learn a foreign language more effectively: interest in the discipline and involvement in the edu-cational process are strengthened. Thanks to the use of mobile devices familiar to mod-ern youth, which allow you to visualize objects, gamify the learning process, introduce interactivity and make it possible to individualize the process of mastering knowledge, the level of motivation to learn a foreign language increases.