Methodological basis for designing a foreign language coursebook for Master’s programme at a non-linguistic university
The article tackles the problem of designing a foreign language coursebook for Master’s program at a non-linguistic university. The whole issue needs rethinking the aims and objectives of foreign language education within the framework of the competency-based approach and meeting modern requirements of Federal State Educational Standards. Achieving a high level of professional communicative competence as the goal of teaching declared in the standards contradicts insufficient development of teaching aids, such as a coursebook and study guide in a foreign language training for Masters and represents a scientific problem. Despite the numerous studies concerning a coursebook/study guide as the main means of teaching, we state the absence of a concept study that can model a specific system of education and meet modern requirements for Master's proficiency, implying possession of cultural and professional competencies. The article represents modern approaches in foreign language teaching and proposes the idea of exercising career-oriented, competency-based, learner-centered and intercultural approaches as methodological basis for designing a foreign language coursebook. The model suggested by the author was tested in the textbook "English in Law" for the course "Foreign Language in Professional Communication" of Master's educational program 40.04.01 "Jurisprudence". The essential characteristics of career-oriented, competency-based, learner-centered and intercultural approaches have formed the basis of the coursebook and are reflected in the aims, objectives, content, principles, methods and means. The proposed interpretation of the methodological basis of modeling a foreign language textbook seems rational and contributes to the achievement of program goals and objectives of Master’s education at a non-linguistic university.