SciencePro Project: Towards Excellence in Bilingual Teaching

Abstract

This paper provides an account of the progress of SciencePro, an innovative, interdisciplinary and interinstitutional education project, whose ultimate aim is to improve student teachers' knowledge, abilities and attitudes for teaching Natural Sciences in a foreign language. The team is working on the development of good practices at university level: enhancing profi ciency of cross-curricular competences, including scientifi c contents, knowledge and foreign language skills oriented to scientifi c discourse, with a view to developing a more appropriate teaching approach. The Practicum period is needed in order to test out the improvement of these specifi c professional competences, which should be more suitable to modern bilingual school contexts.Keywords: innovation project; CLIL; Natural Science teaching; foreign language teaching; Practicum.Resumen: El contenido de este artículo da cuenta de los avances de SciencePro, un proyecto de innovación educativa, de carácter interdisciplinar e interinstitucional, cuyo fi n último se dirige a la mejora del conocimiento, aptitudes y actitudes de los futuros maestros para la enseñanza de la asignatura de Ciencias Naturales en una lengua extranjera. El equipo trabaja en el desarrollo de buenas prácticas -en el nivel universitario-que den lugar al dominio de competencias transversales -incluyendo contenidos científi cos, conocimiento y destrezas en lengua extranjera orientadas hacia el discurso científi co y un enfoque metodológico adecuado. El periodo de Prácticum nos sirve para comprobar la mejora de aquellas competencias profesionales específi cas que más se adecúan a los contextos escolares bilingües.Palabras clave: proyecto de innovación; AICLE; enseñanza de Ciencias Naturales; enseñanza de lengua extranjera; Prácticum.

Conditions of English language teaching to prospective biology teachers in Kazakhstan

“…Let us consider the normative and methodological conditions for the organization of 9 Oriented Foreign Language" for the specialty 5B011300 -Biology 10 , a working program and a syllabus on the subject "Professionally Oriented Foreign Language", a working program and a syllabus on the subject "Language for Special Purposes" for the specialty 5B011300 -Biology (elaborated in Karaganda State University, 2014), Official instructions of the Biology teacher 11 . State compulsory standard of higher education contains general provisions, the list of educational programs within the specialty, the list of qualifications and positions, the qualification characteristics of the bachelor's degree, the main national goals of education and the hierarchy of goals, the requirements for the level of education of graduates, the content of educational programs in the specialty, the goals of education and its expected results, requirements for educational environment for the preparation of bachelor's degree in the specialty, requirements for certification procedures, requirements for development, updating (change, adjustment) of state compulsory education standards, requirements for a document confirming the receipt of an appropriate academic degree and its annex 9 .…”

“…Thus, in the normative documents of institutions of higher education, the foreign 11 professional competence is represented in the form of knowledge, skills and habits, it is included in the list of key competencies, and the logic of the language training of future specialists is not violated.…”