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There is little left unsaid about the applications of ESP, as one of the approaches towards teaching a foreign language for professional purposes, and much is still “behind the curtain” regarding the content and language integrated learning (CLIL) used at tertiary level. The current study considers the prospects and problems of CLIL practices, reports on the authors’ experience of teaching ESP and CLIL at a large public technical university in Russia. We also provide a discussion of the use of corpus software tools for CLIL as a means to customize the language aspects that the learners need to acquire. The study has shown that a staged immersion in vocational context with explicit language instruction is needed and confirmed the efficiency of corpus software for CLIL.
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This work was supported by the Vladimir Potanin Foundation, project ID GK 180000189. The research is carried out at Tomsk Polytechnic University within the framework of Tomsk Polytechnic University Competitiveness Enhancement Program grant. We also thank for comments to Svetlana V. Rybushkina (National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University) and anonymous reviewers that greatly improved the manuscript.
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Sidorenko, T.V., Rozanova, Y.V., Shamina, O.B. (2020). CLIL: A Public Technical University Experience. In: Kenny, N., Işık-Taş, E., Jian, H. (eds) English for Specific Purposes Instruction and Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32914-3_15
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