Communicative competence development among students of non-linguistic universities with the help of CLIL approach in foreign language lessons

Abstract

The article is devoted to the subject-language integrated approach (CLIL), which is currently characterized in the world scientific and methodological literature as one of the innovative approaches to the organization of bilingual education and involves the simultaneous implementation of two learning goals in two subject areas – language and subject; various interpretations of its essence are presented, its varieties, possibilities and features of implementation in bilingual education are highlighted through the application of its basic principles and strategies. The role of the subject-language integrated teaching of students of non-linguistic specialties of higher educational institutions is discussed. The article describes the content and language integrated learning the point of view of modern methods of foreign languages teaching. The main features of the teachers` of profile subjects work as well as teachers of foreign languages in the system of subject-language integrated teaching are considered. Models and peculiarities of using CLIL methodology in a higher educational institution are given.