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Abstract: The study aims to explore the premises, design, and experimental results of implementing a new integrative language teaching pedagogy based on the combination of the content and language integrated learning (CLIL) method and teaching foreign language through literature. It presents a new complex way of teaching English to the Humanities students that can enhance motiva- tion and engagement of students into professional communication in English, and allows integration with other teaching methods, meeting the need to increase the efficiency of FLT in Russian universities. The choice of materials for language courses taught through this method is grounded in the properties of contemporary British literature itself (intertextuality, mixing genres and styles, referring to contemporary historical, political, and social events, high density of factual information, and the reflection of modern processes of thinking and information reception – polycode and fragmentary thinking, etc.), and the abundance of re- sources (interviews, documentaries, newsfeeds) available due to modern media, which help create an effective learning environ- ment. Increased emotional and personal penetration into the literary text, which possesses cultural and aesthetic significance along with the informational one (surrounding materials being a part of it), inspires student’s motivation for learning and communicating ideas, thus evincing high educative value of the new method. The implementation of this method can be a solution to the problem of involving linguistic disciplines into the formation of “universal competences” designated by the Russian Federal Standards for Higher education. Despite several constraints, including the difficulty of integration of teaching language and a professional disci- pline in the standard model of the curriculum, the implementation of this method may prove extremely effective in Russian univer- sities which aim at developing a skill set for their student’s sustainable professional and personal future: critical thinking, emotional intelligence, interpersonal and intercultural communication skills, etc. Language teaching professionals, trained in both a foreign language and other Humanities subjects (Philology, International relations, International Journalism, Global Economy, etc.) may find this method especially appealing.

About the author(s) :

Yulia A. Tikhomirova
National Research Tomsk State University (Tomsk, Russia)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2426-2254

Publication Timeline:

Date of receipt: 23.01.2023; date of publication: 31.03.2024

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