The specifics of career-oriented teaching of a foreign language based on an integrated approach in the system of secondary vocational education

Abstract

Professional self-determination of students is one of the problems of modern society. Recently, secondary vocational education has been of particular interest to school graduates for the purpose of further admission to higher education, therefore, the question arises about the need for career guidance training for students enrolled in secondary vocational education programs for post-graduate training in bachelor’s/specialty programs. The basis for the implementation of career-oriented foreign language teaching can successfully be an integrated approach (subject-language integrated learning), the effectiveness of which has been proven in research. The integrated approach has all the necessary principles that make it possible to implement this model in practice. The features of career-oriented teaching of a foreign language based on an integrated approach in the system of secondary vocational education are: a) motivation of students to study a foreign language with a career guidance goal based on an integrated approach; b) the use of a set of foreign language tasks reflecting the peculiarities of humanitarian areas of training in higher education; c) career orientation of the subject-thematic content of the integrated course; d) the distribution of students in accordance with the level of foreign language communicative competence; e) modular presentation of educational material in accordance with the humanitarian directions of training at the university; f) awareness of the foreign language teacher in the subject content of thematic modules.