Integrated foreign language and content teaching to students based on tandem method

Amerkhanova Oksana

One of the main goals of teaching foreign language to students of non-linguistic areas of training at a higher education institution is the development of foreign language professional communication competence. Its achievement is possible with the implementation of integrated subject-language learning of a foreign language. However, as shown by the analysis of curricula in a foreign language for the professional purposes of a number of higher educational institutions of the country, for objective reasons, a foreign language teacher is not always able to select the subject side of the curriculum, as well as control the professionally-oriented subject content of students' foreign language statements. The tandem method (teaching tandem) is one of the effective methods of teaching students to professional communication in a foreign language. In this paper, the author a) justifies the relevance of the implementation of an integrated subject-language learning of a foreign language; b) describes the linguodidactic potential of the tandem method in teaching a foreign language; c) describes the functions of a foreign language teacher and a teacher of specialized subjects in education.

Keywords:tandem-method, integrated subject-language learning, foreign language for special purposes, subject content of training