Reexamining the priorities of the National Standards for Foreign Language Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Sieloff Magnan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
National Standards ◽  
The Past ◽  
Five Cs

The National Standards for Foreign Language Education offer goals for student learning. During the past decade, they have been used increasingly as objectives for foreign language teaching. In the Standards document, the five Standards are presented in a hierarchical order: 1. Communication, 2. Cultures, 3. Connections, 4. Comparisons, and 5. Communities. Looking to Dell Hymes's portrayal of communicative competence and building on notions from sociocultural theory and the concept communities of practice, this paper questions this hierarchical ordering especially in terms of the primacy of Communication over Cultures and Communities. It is suggested that, of the five Cs, Communities should be considered the most fundamental.

The Formation of Cadets Communicative Competence In the Process of Foreign Language Education In the Military Institute

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-65
Author(s):  
Ханжина ◽  
Tatyana Khanzhina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Speech Understanding ◽  
Authentic Material ◽  
Multimedia Technologies ◽  
Military Institute ◽  
The Military

The formation of cadetscommunicative competence in the process of foreign language education in the military institute consists of some components. First of all it is authentic material – sound tracks, study films, military documentation, slides. In the studying the discipline «The Foreign Language» cadet must understand the general content of authentic publicpolitical, journalistic and texts of military orientation. That`s why the special role is given to the education of audition teaching. To prepare cadets for the foreign communication it is necessary to teach him to work with the profession oriented text, to reviewing it. This ability develops basic abilities of the foreign speech understanding. Today the new multimedia technologies for the foreign language teaching are used. They help to understand language events, make communicative situations, develop language and speech activities. The author gives the lesson fragment with the multimedia technologies using.

scholarly journals KOMPETENCJA MIĘDZYKULTUROWA – KONCEPCJE I WYZWANIA

Neofilolog ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Teresa Siek-Piskozub
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
The Common ◽  
Intercultural Mediators

One of the goals of foreign language education is to prepare learners to the role of intercultural mediators, as indicated in such documents as National Standards for Foreign Language Education or The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Research on culture and its relation to language has a long tradition and reveals a complex and also dynamic nature of the concept. Culture has also been present, although to a different extent, in the long practice of foreign language teaching. However, our understanding of cultural competence in a multicultural and multilingual European Union, which sets goals in the area of education in its Member States, has been evolving. In the article we will discuss different concepts of culture proposed by such researchers as Hofstede (1980, 1991), Binnett (1993), Weaver (2001), and Byram (1997), as well as various concepts of approaching culture in the foreign language education context. We will also look at challenges faced by Polish learners and teachers in the foreign language classroom.

scholarly journals Polymodal exercise as a means for the formation of a professionally oriented communicative competence of students at an institution of non-linguistic higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-218
Author(s):  
Aleksandra A. Kirillovykh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Adaptive Potential ◽  
Speech Activity ◽  
The Past

The paper actualizes the problem of finding an effective means for the formation of a professionally oriented communicative competence, which today acts as a goal-result of foreign language education at non-linguistic universities. Analysis of works on the problem over the past few decades has shown that most often one or another technology is considered to be means for the formation of this competence, specially modelled for a specialisation, taking into account certain conditions of the educational environment, and also giving priority to one or more types of speech activity, and therefore possessing a weak adaptive and competency-developing ability. In this connection, the purpose of this article was to present an upgradable polymodal exercise as a more universal and competency-oriented means and to substantiate the expediency of its use in professionally oriented foreign language education at non-linguistic universities. In the course of this study, a model of such an exercise was presented, its definition was formulated, and psychological, pedagogic and methodological points were identified that determine the appropriateness of its use for the formation of professionally oriented communicative competence among students at a non-linguistic university. In conclusion, it is concluded that the upgradable polymodal exercise has a high adaptive potential, serves to intensify and optimise foreign language education, and, therefore, can become an effective means of achieving the expected results.

scholarly journals INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT LEVELS B2 - C1 (FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THE TEXTBOOK)

2013 ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
E. B. Yastrebova ◽  
D. A. Kryachkov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Basic Features

The article analyzes how professors and students of MGIMO-University’s School of International Relations perceive innovations in language teaching.As a synergy system, language teaching relies on selfdevelopment based to a great extent on innovations, which can be initiated either from the inside or from the outside. To identify the basic features of innovations in foreign language teaching, the authors conducted a survey of professors and students of the School of international Relations. The results suggest that for most respondents the main purpose of innovations in foreign language teaching and learning is to attain a significantly higher level of communicative competence, which is seen as feasible only if fundamentally new teaching materials and computer technologies are used. According to the survey, the success of innovations largely depends on their source (innovations ‘from the top’ and innovations ‘from the bottom’) and commitment on the part of professors and students to participate in them, the latter being often prompted by their discontent with the state of play. Innovations ‘from above’ tend to be more encompassing and affect the entire system of language education, whereas innovations ‘from the bottom concern the teaching process per se. Though the survey suggests that it is innovations ‘from the top’ that tend to be more successful, the authors conclude that language education as a synergy system adopts only non-shattering innovations that address its most vital needs, thus encouraging its sustainable development.

National Standards: Research into practice

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen W. Glisan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
National Standards ◽  
The Impact

The Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century (SFLL) (National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project [NSFLEP]), originally published in 1996, were envisioned by many as the panacea for providing a new and exciting direction for foreign language education in the United States. The perceived impact of these National K-16 Student Standards has been witnessed throughout more than a decade by scholarly works that have acknowledged their role as ‘a veritable change agent’ (Sharpley-Whiting 1999: 84), ‘a vision for foreign language education in the new century’ (Allen 2002: 518), and, more recently, as ‘a blueprint and framework for change’ (Terry 2009: 17). The research that has been done on the Standards since their inception has attempted to provide concrete ways for the field to embrace this new framework and thereby realize a Standards-based curriculum and perhaps even revolutionize language education. This work has consisted largely of (1) implementational research (both with and without experimental design) that proposes specific strategies for addressing the Standards in planning, teaching, and assessment (Schwartz & Kavanaugh 1997; Abbott & Lear 2010); (2) survey research that analyzes self-reported information regarding teachers' pedagogical beliefs about the Standards and ways in which they claim to be addressing Standards in their classrooms (Allen 2002; ACTFL 2011), and (3) White papers that disseminate opinions and insights by leaders in the field regarding the impact that the Standards are having in areas such as language instruction, curriculum and course design, and educational policy (Sharpley-Whiting 1999; Donato 2009; Glisan 2010).

Research in foreign language education in Hungary (2006–2012)

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Péter Medgyes ◽  
Marianne Nikolov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Fertile Ground

In the past quarter century, Hungary has offered fertile ground for innovative developments in foreign language (FL) education. The appropriate, albeit disparaging, label applied to Hungary in the mid-1970s – ‘a land of foreign language illiterates’ (Köllő 1978: 6) – no longer applies. In the wake of the dramatic changes of 1989, the number of FL speakers rose quite rapidly. As a beneficial side-effect, applied linguistic and language education research, areas which used to be relegated to the lowest rung of the academic ladder, began to be recognised as legitimate fields of scientific inquiry, offering young researchers the opportunity to embark on an academic career. As a result, Hungarian authors are now regular contributors to distinguished journals, and researchers from Hungary are welcome speakers at international conferences.However, Hungarian authors often choose to publish their research studies in local journals and volumes which are not easily accessible to the international research community, especially if written in Hungarian. The aim of this review, therefore, is to give an overview of such studies to demonstrate the breadth and depth of recent research conducted in Hungary.

scholarly journals Foreign language teaching in domestic non-linguistic educational establishments (historic review and development prospects)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3D) ◽  
pp. 257-263
Author(s):  
Yana Necheporuk ◽  
Iryna Holovko ◽  
Serhii Radul
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Historic Review ◽  
Development Prospects ◽  
Teaching Professional

This article describes the problems, development and modern trends of foreign language education in non-linguistic universities. It also gives a certain historical division of LSP studying into periods. This article highlights certain historical features of teaching professional English in domestic non-language educational institutions and reveals some modern prospects for the development of methodology for teaching professional foreign languages. The article also gives, as an example, a short presentation of training aviation specialists for foreign language vocational communication. The increased importance of proficiency in a professionally oriented foreign language is emphasized; the approaches that make up the methodological basis of the system of foreign language training are determined.

scholarly journals WAYS OF FORMATION OF STATEMENTS IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE// International Journal of Educational and Scientific Research 4(12), 2021/ Chief Editor K. Kumpulainen /OEAPS OU - Tallinn, Estonia (Open European Academy of Public Sciences). Vienna, Austria 30.04.2021: OEAPS OU., 2021. P. 21-24.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulzhamilya Bibatyrovna Serikbayeva ◽  
Zhanna Borisovna Erzhanova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Methodological Principles

The purpose of the article is to offer a solution to the problem of development of communicative competence of students of non – linguistic faculties. The importance of establishing common goals and objectives by both sides of the educational process is shown. The problems faced by teachers and students in teaching a foreign language due to the lack of understanding of the structure of the studied language by students, their inability to develop an algorithm for the formation of foreign language statements. The importance of developing students ‘ strategic thinking in learning a foreign language is demonstrated. The General methodological principles underlying the tasks and exercises on the formation of the functional structural model of the studied language in the minds of students are formulated. The assessment of the state of foreign language education at the present stage is given. The necessity of changes in the guidelines for teaching students of creative specialties to obtain the expected results is proved. The main scientific result is the authors ‘ proposal on the formation of communicative competence through the development of existential and strategic competencies, as well as the development of an algorithm for the assimilation of knowledge about the structure of the studied language and their application in speech activity.

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