TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES: MOTIVATION AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING

Abstract One of the most notable features of recent years in the field of linguistics and didactics of foreign languages is the increase of interest in languages for specific purposes. This development is driven by incoming demand from work and academic domain, with the significant need to study a foreign language for specific purposes. The purpose of this paper is the detailed examination of the problems regarding their teaching in the university context, focusing mainly in cooperative didactics, which presents two sides: cooperation between teachers and students in the linguistic context and in the context of the specialty discipline. We will focus on the teacher - student interaction, which sees the collaboration of two experts: the student, an expert in the specific discipline and the teacher, an expert in the language and glottodidactics, a collaboration which must be present in the entire didactic process, from its programming to its completion. Keywords: languages for specific purposes, interaction, cooperative didactic, continuous training.