Developing Foreign Language Communicative Skills of Non-Linguistics Students through an Instructional Design Model

The article considers the teaching of foreign language professional communication to non-linguistics students based on the Backward design model. The authors present a teaching technique aimed at FL communicative competence development in the context of a “backward” planning course, i.e., the identification of final results and the determination of acceptable evidence precede learning activities and instruction. The results of the experimental teaching to non-linguistics students with the use of the design model are discussed.