Language for Specific Purposes: Methodological Problems, Trends and Perspectives

Abstract

Teaching foreign languages for specific purposes in Russia is a rather new developing direction in methodology, but mostly it means teaching at nonlingual high schools. Though it doesn't reflect the overall variety of purposes to learn a foreign language. The article considers possible kinds of goals depending on educational establishments, age of learners, learning styles and other factors. The author assumes that the main factor is a set of target tasks, which could and must be solved in studied language, so some ways of subcategorization LSP are discussed according to various factors. For providing of effective LSP teaching the author suggests direction of LSP teacher training forms and their content. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.