Language Teaching Content Renovation in the Context of Higher Education Internationalization

摘要

This paper highlights the basic components of language teaching content renovation in the context of higher education internationalization. The new status of foreign languages in the modern world today requires scientific development of modern curricula and course syllabus of the discipline. Reforming language teaching content and introducing international component in curricula bring indispensible benefits for higher education institution. Language teaching content comprises interaction of three basic elements of educational system: teaching material – a faculty member – a student. When teaching to communicate professionally in a foreign language at the non-language high school, higher education internationalization requires a new approach to course content of the discipline. Under such approach course content is viewed as an integrative entire which is inseparably associated with all the objectives of higher education establishment. The author identifies the components and main trends of language teaching content renovation, those of globalism and Europeanization. Components of language teaching content renovation considered in the article encourage to develop student's communicative and cross-cultural competencies and to expand knowledge of human global problems.