Modern trends in foreign language teaching at nonlinguistic universities
The article describes new tendencies in foreign language teaching at nonlinguistic universities. A steady tendency to teaching professionally oriented context on the basis of a discipline specific language and communicative, job related situations is noted. The benefits of this approach, as well as specificy of content areas, curricula and syllabi design, teaching techniques, technical equipment, the role of subject experts and other issues are discussed. The model of thematic content selection is the basic organizing principle for curriculum design and teaching techniques. The latter include cooperative techniques, problem solving tasks, communicative tasks of any format - everything that promotes the development of foreign language professional communicative competence as the main target of teaching at nonlinguistic universities.