LEVEL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATES OF NON-LINGUISTIC SPECIALTIES: DRAWBACKS OF TEACHING PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN KAZAKHSTAN

The article discusses teaching professionally-oriented foreign language students of non-linguistic specialties. The article discusses the level of knowledge of a foreign language of graduates of non-linguistic specialties from Institutions of Higher Education and proposes some practical ways of its improvement.
It reviews the level of foreign languages, the strengths and weaknesses, the language skills which graduates of non-linguistic specialties need improvement with. In order to find out that information questionnaire survey was conducted. The findings are discussed in this article. Possible reasons for ineffective teaching foreign language for students of non-linguistic specialties are regarded as following: the absence of systematic approach to curriculum formation, lack of coursebooks and teaching aids. Several ways to deal with those issues are proposed: developing systematic approach to curriculum composition, creation of coursebooks with content relevant to students’ professional field. Practical activities as projects, task-based learning, role-play, presentations are described.

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