Metasubject Potential of Teaching English to Biology Students

Abstract

The introduction of trilingual education into the Kazakhstani education system, due to its integration into the world educational space, has changed the setting of goals in the system of higher pedagogical education. Thus, the goals of preparing a subject teacher are complemented by the possession of a future specialist in a foreign language professional competence. The purpose of the study is to identify the meta-subject potential of a foreign language in the system of higher pedagogical education in Kazakhstan. The authors of the article studied the experience of teaching English as an EMI in the world, as well as the experience of implementing EMI in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The study was conducted on the basis of analysis and generalization of scientific and theoretical sources on the topic of research and questioning of students of the educational program “Biology”. In the course of the study, the authors studied the definitions of the terms denoting foreign language teaching of specialized subjects (CLIL, EMI and ESP), present the experience of teaching in English in different countries, describe its national, institutional and personal interests. The authors of the article conducted a survey of students who in the future will teach their subjects in English, aimed at studying the relevance of activating the meta-subject potential of the English language for students learning the language for their future teaching activities and demonstrated further prospects for this potential.