Interdisciplinary approach principles’ implementation in the process of teaching professionally-oriented foreign language

Abstract

The article is concerned with the identification of characteristic features inherent to the interdisciplinary approach in education and ways of its employment in the process of professionally-oriented foreign language teaching at the University level. The authorsubstantiates the necessity to employ the chosen set of interdisciplinary approach principles in the process of professionally-oriented language teaching; in the process of educational programmes' design; in the process of choosing the forms of interaction and modification of pedagogic technologies. On the example of the language manual written for the students mastering in "Industrial and Civil Engineering", the author demonstrated not only the possibility, but also the need to combine and take into account the highlighted principles of both interdisciplinary and competency-based approaches in the process of teaching professionally-oriented foreign language. Particular attention is paid to the effectiveness of the modular approach as a way to implement the principles of interdisciplinary approach, to design the subject and metasubject content of both educational programmes and academic syllabuses, and to structure students’ textbooks and manuals.