Implementation of an interdisciplinary approach in “Foreign Language” teaching in the training of the 51.03.02 “Folk Art Culture specialists”

One of the tasks of Foreign Language teaching at a creative university is the implementation of an interdisciplinary approach. The article is devoted to the possibility of integrating foreign language teaching with the professional training of specialists in the field of 51.03.02 “Folk art culture”, Directing amateur theater. According to the authors, the basis for such integration can be dramatic performances in foreign language classes. Research methods included the synthesis and analysis of pedagogical experience, which showed that in the vast majority of cases, dramatization technologies are considered in terms of developing students’ speech skills, communication skills, creativity, thinking and increasing motivation for the subject under study. In addition, describing different forms and types of work with dramatic productions, the researchers talk about dramatizations of works written in the language studied. The article describes the experience of staging K.I. Chukovsky’s poem “Fedora’s Grief” by students of the 2nd year of the Theater faculty and the subsequent survey of students regarding the effectiveness of using this form of work in the course of teaching the discipline “Foreign language”. The study reveals the integration of the development of language and speech skills with the formation of professional competencies of an amateur theater director. The novelty, according to the author, lies precisely in the appeal to the text written in Russian. The article describes the stages of work on the stage production, as well as tasks and exercised based on the poem. Conclusion is made that staging of works of Russian classics in a foreign language can serve a basis for the implementation of an interdisciplinary approach to the formation of universal and professional competencies of future directors of amateur theater.