FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY IN RUSSIA: IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

Abstract

The article discusses the experience of organizing foreign language education in a non-linguistic Russian university. The author draws attention to the signifi cance of the influence of current socio-economic, political, methodological and individual factors on the pedagogical system under study. Key factors include integration processes, social and academic mobility, digitalization of various spheres of life, and the demand for English in society. The key changes in its structural components are described: target, content and technological. There is a differentiation of the goals of foreign language education at the bachelor’s and specialty/master’s levels, which require not only mastering the ability for oral and written foreign language communication, but also the ability to apply modern communication technologies in the target language. The modern educational space, which predetermines greater subjectivity of the student, and a clearer differentiation of goals and results determine the task of studying the claims, expectations and needs of foreign language students in a non-linguistic university, as well as updating the content of foreign language education in order to ensure that students can acquire personal experience in their future professional fi eld , and life activity in general. One of the innovative tasks of university foreign language teachers is the design and implementation of an interactive innovative educational environment. At the same time, it is necessary to recognize the need to study the didactic possibilities of interaction in the educational process with artifi cial intelligence. The results of the analysis of the presented experience made it possible to identify the specifi cs of the current state of the foreign language education system in a non-linguistic university and to identify promising directions for its further study in order to fi nd effective ways of management and timely transformation.