The Role of Concepts of the Music Picture of the World in Teaching a Foreign Language to Students of Musical Institutions
The aim of the article is to improve the quality of teaching a foreign language to musical students. Thus, the goals include development of the classification of texts aimed at forming the skills of oral foreign language communication in problematic, potentially useful situations, which most effectively actualize the concepts of the music picture of the world. Methods of research consist of studying publications on the topic and analyzing textbooks for musicians, which reveal certain drawbacks from the viewpoint of using the spheres of concepts necessary for forming the conceptual picture of the world in the students’ minds. The hypothesis of the research is that the picture of the world, being the core of the musical culture, enables students to better understand and use the notions of the foreign musical culture in the process of intercultural communication, has been proved by practical application of the textual materials on the English lessons with students of the Nizhny Novgorod conservatoire.