Interdisciplinary approach in teaching english for professional purposes

The article discusses the possibilities of implementing an interdisciplinary approach in the system of language training for law students. According to the authors, interdisciplinarity reflects the integrative nature of modern scientific knowledge and actualizes the search for the most effective ways to solve both scientific and practical problems in the system of social and humanitarian training at the university. The organization of the teaching process of professionally oriented English in accordance with an interdisciplinary approach makes it possible to simultaneously deepen knowledge in the specialty and develop communication skills in a foreign language, allowing students to improve their theoretical and practical training. The experience of interdisciplinary foreign language training of future lawyers through the practice of carrying out a professionally oriented project in the form of a business game is summarized, and the feasibility of using an interdisciplinary approach for the formation of students’ professional, linguistic, communicative and information competences is shown. The effectiveness of organizing foreign language education on an interdisciplinary basis was confirmed during a pedagogical experiment, which allowed the authors to come to the conclusion that practice-oriented foreign language education, in which students are involved in quasi-professional activities using English as a means of communication, contributes to the formation of professionally significant competences in students and significantly increases the effectiveness of language training at the university.