Teaching a foreign language for professional purposes course on the basis of the model of content and language integrated learning in an agricultural institution

The purpose of teaching foreign languages to students of non-linguistic areas of training is the development of a foreign-language communicative competence in the spheres of professional communication. In this regard, the thematic content of the training “Foreign Language for Professional Purposes” should be aimed at an in-profile specialization and reflect the specifics of not only the students’ specialization, but also the chosen profile of education within specialization. However, as the analysis of the main educational programs on a number of areas of training in agrarian universities and the curricula of the course “Foreign Language for Professional Purposes” shows, the thematic content of teaching a foreign language does not always reflect the specifics of the students’ specialization and the profile of training. In this paper we examine the main three models of teaching a foreign language for professional purposes: 1) a model of teaching a foreign language for specific purposes; 2) a model for teaching a profile discipline in a foreign language; 3) model of content and language integrated learning . On the basis of the analysis of models, the content of the discipline “Foreign Language for Professional Purposes” is proposed in the work, implemented on the basis of the model of teaching a profile discipline and a foreign language. We offer the subject content of teaching a foreign language, as well as the thematic content of this course on the example of the direction of preparation “Gardening” and two profiles: “Decorative Horticulture and Landscape Design” and “Fruit and Vegetable Growing and Viticulture”. The materials of the work testify that often the thematic content of the teaching of the discipline will be invariant regardless of the chosen training profile, and the part is variable, reflecting the specificity of the specific training profile.

language for specific purposes, content and language integrated learning, agrarian university, gardening, subject and thematic content of the course