Abstract
Ukraine’s movement towards integration into European and world scientific and educational space causes changes in paradigms and approaches to teaching in all-level educational institutions, which can lead to modern learning transformations. Topicality of the article is due to the necessity of system comprehending the notions of «integration» and «integrated learning» in the process of education as interdisciplinary links play a great role in contemporary world because modern professionals should be versatile and possess a wide range of skills and knowledge to be multitasking and able to solve burning problems. The aim of the article is to define the terms of «integration» and «integrated learning» in the context of the education process. A set of tasks has been solved in the presented article: various viewpoints on integration and integrated learning have been analyzed and compared including both foreign and Ukrainian scholars’ scientific results. The process of integration in education results in humanization and being a constituent part of content-language integrated learning. The advantages of integrated approach are evident as the latter helps to create advanced and sophisticated textbooks, modern educational technologies and change educational component content, which lead to the necessity of understanding students’ needs making the teaching process student-centered and student-oriented. The integration methods, forms, tools and means are characterized. Cognitive and creative teaching methods make it possible to form integrative blocks of problem-based learning: integrative vision, heuristic research, development, forecasting and analysis. Integration can be subject, problem, horizontal and vertical, which lets master the topic from different angles. In addition, integration performs educational, upbringing, developmental, psychological, methodological and organizational functions.
Highlights
Introduction and topicality of the subjectFollowing the strategy of integrating into the European Community Ukrainian graduates must be competitive on the international labor market, versatile and learned which is provided by the integrated approach to teaching the English language combined with a wide range of subjects depending on the major such as Information Technology, Economics, Culture Studies etc.The necessity to increase the level of specialist professional training for various branches of industry is stated in a number of documents adopted by the Government like «The National Strategy of the Development of Education in Ukraine for the Period up to the Year of 2021» (2013), the Law of Ukraine «On Higher Education» (2014), «On Education» (2017) and others
In Ukraine, the principle of integration has been claimed as the main principle of education reform along with the principles of humanization and differentiation [9]
After analyzing material and viewpoints on integration in education, its methods, structure and functions, we can draw the conclusion that integrated approach to teaching English as a Foreign Language and English for Specific Purposes is very crucial and perspective, especially combined with the methodology of scaffolding where teacher’s help is gradually decreasing disappearing completely
Summary
Introduction and topicality of the subjectFollowing the strategy of integrating into the European Community Ukrainian graduates must be competitive on the international labor market, versatile and learned which is provided by the integrated approach to teaching the English language combined with a wide range of subjects depending on the major such as Information Technology, Economics, Culture Studies etc.The necessity to increase the level of specialist professional training for various branches of industry is stated in a number of documents adopted by the Government like «The National Strategy of the Development of Education in Ukraine for the Period up to the Year of 2021» (2013), the Law of Ukraine «On Higher Education» (2014), «On Education» (2017) and others. Following the strategy of integrating into the European Community Ukrainian graduates must be competitive on the international labor market, versatile and learned which is provided by the integrated approach to teaching the English language combined with a wide range of subjects depending on the major such as Information Technology, Economics, Culture Studies etc. In Ukraine, the principle of integration has been claimed as the main principle of education reform along with the principles of humanization and differentiation [9]. The research aim is to elucidate the notion of «integration» in education and define methods, structure and functions of integration in the process of teaching and learning. The set of data subject to analysis comprises fundamental research papers in pedagogy, teaching foreign languages methodology by prominent foreign and Ukrainian scholars. Theoretical methods including synthesis and analysis are used
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