Аннотация:Improvement in any area, including socio-economic sphere, is determined by human factor, the formation of which is connected with the educational system. Digitalization penetrates into all spheres of reality, becomes a key factor in effective interaction between the state and citizens. Digitalization of educational environment is the response to the challenge from the state, which aims at making the scientific and pedagogical staff transform education from the process of transferring and receiving knowledge, cultural values into driving force of the country's social and economic progress. Digital technologies determine the informational and educational environment of a person. However, the impact of digital technologies on the acquisition of knowledge, skills of the graduate of the humanitarian areas of universities remains controversial. The authors consider the issues of effective methods for competencies formation connected both with the content of philological disciplines and the use of digital environment in professional activities of graduates. Experience of teaching different philological disciplines reveals the following points: ways of information literacy development among students (information needs, analyzing content, assessing the relevance of the source and content, ability to correlate the content of different sources, etc.); issues of teaching students the professional communication in digital environment; creating digital content within academic disciplines.