Foreign language for international professional communication: integrative aspect in teaching

Abstract

A problematic field of this study is the integration of traditional and new approaches to organizing teaching process on professionally directed disciplines and a foreign language. Acquisition of educational material by the students and effective interaction between lecturers of specialized disciplines and foreign language teachers are important issues as well. Systematic, contextual and personal-oriented approaches, and the method of pedagogical design were used by the authors for considering and analyzing the optimization of educational and methodological support for teachers of two academic disciplines “Physical Geography of Russia” and “English as a Foreign Language”. The authors’ interpretation of content of the lectures, accompanying material in slide presentations, tests and independent work for students on a base of integrated tasks have been tested during the offline/online classes on these disciplines. The used strategies for motivate students to study special vocabulary and use a foreign language as a means of communication are forming the basis for their professional training. Difficulties and achievements in introducing measures presented in the training process were identified. The indicated actions of teachers and students have been aimed to improving the quality of training of a university graduate and improving his/her competitiveness at the international labor market.