Content design of foreign language academic programmes for students at the musical universities

Foreign language teaching to students of non-linguistic programmes, including musical institutions of higher education, is aimed at the development of foreign language communicative competence in the social, social and cultural communication spheres, as well as internal specialization. The content of the discipline “Foreign Language for Professional Communication” should reflect the specifics of the future professional activity of graduates of a particular programs and a specialty, and, thus, is aimed at forming a number of general cultural professional and professional competencies. The curricula analysis of a foreign language in musical universities indicates that in practice there is one single academic program in a foreign language for students, regardless of the programme. In practice, this ignores the internal specialization of the discipline “Foreign Language for Professional Communication”. We examine and develop: a) the main approaches to learning a foreign language for professional communication at the university (“Foreign Language for Special Purposes”, “Content and language integrated learning” and “Teaching specialized disciplines in a foreign language”); b) analysis of studies on the selection of the subject content of curricula in a foreign language for professional communication; c) the author’s content of the discipline “Foreign Language for Professional Communication” for students of the three programmes of a musical university: 53.03.02 - “Musical and instrumental art”, 53.03.03 - “Vocal art” and 53.03.04 - “The art of folk singing”.

content and language integrated learning, musical universities, content of education, foreign language