Interdisciplinary integration as a means of developing foreign language lexical skills in students of a non-linguistic university (training program "Landscape Architecture")

The interdisciplinary approach in a foreign language teaching to students of a non-linguistic university is substantiated. The object of the study is the process of a foreign language teaching in a non-linguistic university; the subject is interdisciplinary integration in a foreign language teaching within the disciplines "Foreign Language", "Architectural Graphics and Fundamentals of Composition". The principles of the interdisciplinary approach are highlighted: the principle of professional orientation, the principle of scientific and life orientation, the principle of personal orientation, the principle of reflection, the principle of independence, the principle of interactivity. The main task is to develop a method for creating a "visualized thoughtform" in the context of interdisciplinary integration and to present a consistent set of interdisciplinary practical tasks in order to form foreign language lexical skills among students. The concept of "visualized thoughtform" was introduced in relation to a foreign language teaching in the field of landscape architecture. The methodological foundations of the foreign language lexical skills formation were determined, foreign language lexical vocabulary was selected in the context of a specialized orientation, a consistent set of exercises was developed, methods of interdisciplinarity principles implementation were analyzed. According to the problems of research, an interdisciplinary practice-oriented task is a didactically organized foreign language students' activity aimed at developing foreign language skills, cognitive skills, and the ability to form and put into practice their knowledge in the professional field in a foreign language. The article describes the pedagogical experience in organizing interdisciplinary classes, the results of which allowed us to demonstrate the effectiveness of the integrated learning process and its impact on the activation of students' cognitive activity. Pedagogical experience has confirmed that the use of interdisciplinary practice-oriented creative tasks helps to make the educational process intellectually rich, exciting, and didactic, which also has a positive effect on the realization of students' personal potential, the formation of foreign language lexical skills, the expansion of vocabulary and its application in the professional sphere, which successfully affects the formation of transferable skills and professional competencies of students. The study highlights the importance of an interdisciplinary integration in the development of education and identifies opportunities for interaction between different fields of knowledge in the learning process. The interdisciplinary learning approach has a significant impact on the formation of basic knowledge, the development of professional skills, meets the requirements of the state standards and makes teaching the most effective. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

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