INTEGRATED LEARNING OF PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION
The article is devoted to the idea of developing an integrated teaching method that can help improve student learning outcomes and their personal achievements. The active use of this method provides a solution to the problems related to the implementation of Content-Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. The authors conducted an experiment to obtain a general assessment of the application of the CLIL methodology in the curriculum. To prove efficiency of the proposed methodology a comparative analysis of the existing and demanded approaches to professional disciplines delivery was carried out. According to the results, the level of the English language of students at the Institute of Humanities (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University) significantly increased, as well as the level of motivation. However, testing of subject knowledge in a professional discipline showed a negative dynamics compared to previous training without CLIL. In addition, a whole series of psychological and pedagogical difficulties arose, which was revealed during the interviewing the teachers and students. To solve these problems, the authors proposed to update the combination of teaching methods through an integrated learning model.