Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
TEACHING CAREER-ORIENTED MAJORS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY CASE STUDY)
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2016
Языканглийский
  • Gorelova Yuliya Nikolaevna, author
  • Murtazina Ekaterina Olegovna, author
  • Sungatullina Dilyana Damirovna, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Sungatullina Dilyana D., Zalyaeva Ekaterina O., Gorelova Yuliya N., Teaching Career-Oriented Majors in the English Language: Challenges and Opportunities (Kazan Federal University case study)//IFTE 2016 - 2ND INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON TEACHER EDUCATION. - 2016. - Vol.12, Is.. - P.396-403.
    Annotation Global education environment changes the function of the English language. Nowadays it acts not only as a means of learning but as a medium of instruction (EMI). As part of a study in Kazan Federal University, Institute of Management, Economics and Finance, we identified the gap between the requirements of a current global educational setting and the level of academics? linguistic competence. This paper presents the results of academics? current social portrait survey. During the survey we detected two major issues preventing the academics from teaching majors in English. The first concern is the lack of qualified English speaking academics capable of delivering courses in English (2%). The second considers the percentage of elderly teaching staff educated in the times of Soviet Union, when educational system concentrated upon communism construction and written translation was a dominating practice.
    Keywords English as a medium of instruction (EMI); teaching staff; career-oriented major; English language teaching program.
    The name of the journal IFTE 2016 - 2ND INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON TEACHER EDUCATION
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