Keyword: «content-language integrated learning»

This article examines the application of a practice-oriented approach to teaching a foreign language to students. The aim of this study is to explore the feasibility of using content-language integrated learning (CLIL) methods in the development and practical testing of elective programs for students studying Economics. The relevance of this study stems from the objective contradictions that hinder the application of practice-oriented methods in real-world teaching, namely: the presence of students with different levels of language proficiency in a single educational environment; the tendency for the number of students in a single educational subgroup to increase; and the specifics of curriculum development that lead to a violation of the principle of regularity. To achieve this goal, the author initiated and conducted a pedagogical experiment at the Siberian Institute of Management, a branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Novosibirsk. The experiment focused on developing and testing an interdisciplinary, optional, parallel bilingual training program for students, "Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship," in which a foreign language (English) was used as a working tool for acquiring knowledge in specialized disciplines. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the formulation of didactic technologies that facilitate the involvement of students with different (including insufficient) levels of linguistic competence in a unified educational process aimed at the simultaneous study of a professional subject and a foreign language. The theoretical significance of the study lies in its expansion of understanding possible formats for subject-language integrated learning (CLIL) within an interdisciplinary approach. The study examines the "soft" and "hard" CLIL models and analyzes the practicability of applying these models. The practical value of the project lies in the development of learning structures that support an interdisciplinary approach to teaching. The author presents a practice-oriented course, "Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship," for the parallel study of a foreign language and a professional subject. The teaching techniques tested in the pedagogical experiment can be used in simulating interdisciplinary projects.