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The current highly dynamic social-economic situation poses new challenges for training students in engineering professions. The presently sought-for creativity is impossible without a well-balanced mind, and that implies widening the scope of humanities studied by would-be engineers. Consequently, the teaching paradigm has to be modified in closer correlation with the future specialists’ professiogram, to help the students simultaneously develop their competencies in the areas of both sciences and humanities. This makes the authors believe that the study process can be significantly improved by implementing the Content and Language Integrated Learning along with Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences with its principle of semiotic diversity. The paper describes an experiment conducted within the framework of a professional English course for first-year undergraduate students who are majoring in higher mathematics. The authors demonstrate how specially selected English video materials on the students’ professional topics can be effectively employed to assist their personal development, and how the main principles of semiotic didactics may be applied to select the most suitable activities for each student’s perception channels.
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Grigoryeva-Golubeva, V., Silina, E., Surinova, E. (2020). The Multiple Intelligences Theory as an Efficient Method of Teaching Professional English to Students of Mathematics. In: Anikina, Z. (eds) Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives. IEEHGIP 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47415-7_12
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