Some aspects of the teaching number of subjects in foreign language in modern universities

Abstract

The article discusses the main aspects of teaching a number of subjects in higher educational institutions in English. There are analyzed the main researches in this direction, it is presented the authors' own experience. It is shown that a tendency to shift the emphasis from traditional knowledge of a foreign language to a more professional level is the main tendency of the modern world. There are indicated the difficulties and specifics of the further development of this direction, especially the problems with are joint with teaching a number of subjects in a foreign (English) language. It is emphasized that this problem cannot be solved only by increasing the hours of a foreign language in the educational process. For solving it is required a completely different approach: to have or to prepare subjects' teachers, who are able to teach in foreign language a subject. In addition, the structure of the classes, the system of knowledge control is changed when teaching a number of subjects in a foreign language. There are shown the features of teaching the discipline« Higher and Applied Mathematics » at the S. Kuznets Kharkiv National University in English as example. Based on the analysis of research, scientific work in this direction, and the authors' own experience, we can say that, the further development of this area requires a lot of painstaking work, despite the fact that mathematics is one of the disciplines that is least susceptible to language changes. It is necessary to prepare a subject teacher who speaks a foreign language. First of all a course should be presented methodically and qualitatively provided, the methods of presenting the material are different from the methods of teaching in the native language. A control system must also be changed too; two components must be controlled in this case: the knowledge of the language and the knowledge of the subject. But, despite all these difficulties, the teaching subjects in a foreign language is an urgent requirement of our time, and its implementation in the educational process is one of the main conditions not only for improving the competitiveness of a future professional, but raising the university's rating as a whole.