Culture teaching methods in foreign language education: pre-service teachers’ reported beliefs and practices

The article observes modern trends in the development of foreign language education in a nonlinguistic university, using as an example the English Department for Science Students, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Nonlinguistic university graduates need a fairly high level of foreign language communicative competence to be competitive in the modern labor market, which determines an everincreasing attention to teaching LSP (Language for Specifc Purposes). In 2001, the English Department for Science Students participated in the Russian-British project RESPONSE (Russian Education Support Project on Specialist English) aiming at a largescale study of the current state of teaching English for specifc purposes in Russian universities. Its fndings provide the baseline that serves a useful starting point for evaluation and monitoring the changes that have occurred in this area over the past twenty years. The main trend is the change of teaching methods and approaches: from the grammar-translation method inherited from the Soviet higher school to computer assisted language learning (CALL), communicative and competence approaches today. Active integration of information and communication technologies in the educational process makes it possible to form and develop the university's electronic information and educational environment. The MSU educational platform “University without borders” is based on Moodle LMS and used for distance teaching and learning. It ofers online educational materials, electronic textbooks and courses, for both degree programmes and supplementary education. The main digital tools that lecturers use to teach and supervise students' self-study are listed. The paper considers such areas of the work of the English Department for Science Students as development and application of interactive teaching methods and technologies; implementation of alternative forms of control, e. g. performing the fnal bachelor ESP assessment in the format of B2 CEFR exams or conducting an interfaculty scientifc student conference in English at the master's level; designing a professional development course in academic English for earth and life scientists; establishing an electronic library; compiling specialized corpora of medical and biological scientifc texts; promotion of multilingualism and multiculturalism.

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APPLICATION OF MEDIA IN THE CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE "FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION: FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH TEACHING METHODS"

Educological discourse ◽

10.28925/2312-5829.2021.2.12 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 161-184

Author(s):

Lada Petryk

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Primary School ◽

Teaching Methods ◽

Communicative Competence ◽

Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

Diagnostic Tools ◽

School Teachers ◽

Primary School Teachers ◽

The Impact

The article describes an experimental study aimed at determining the effectiveness of the use of media in the formation of foreign language communicative competence of future primary school teachers on the example of the discipline "Foreign language education: a foreign language with teaching methods." The concept of "media" is considered as objects, equipment and materials that ensure the functioning of the media information space in the form of audio, visual, audio and visual messages and are allocated by the teacher to organize an active process of learning a foreign language. It is noted that the choice of media was in accordance with the practical objectives of the training sessions. The procedural and effective components of the ascertaining and forming stages of the experiment are analyzed. It is noted that the developed diagnostic tools allowed to conduct diagnostic testing, to determine insufficiently formed foreign language communicative competence of future primary school teachers and to update the formative experiment to test the effectiveness of media in foreign language teaching. It is noted that the content of the discipline was updated with topics, issues related to the analysis, evaluation and use of various types of media, which contributed to the use of modern teaching methods and technologies. A comprehensive survey of students on their awareness of the impact of media on the effectiveness of learning a foreign language and the formation of their media skills is also analyzed. The dynamics of the levels of formation of foreign language communicative competence of future primary school teachers, that also affected the quality of student achievement is demonstrated in the paper.

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The English shark and other fish in the pond

European Journal of Applied Linguistics ◽

10.1515/eujal-2020-0030 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 47-67

Author(s):

Christiane Fäcke

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Language Policy ◽

Teaching Methods ◽

Language Teaching ◽

Language Education ◽

Language Choice ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Teaching ◽

Special Focus ◽

Historical Overview

Abstract The following paper provides a historical overview of foreign language education and foreign language teaching in Germany, including teaching methods and curricular developments. A special focus emphasizes language policy and its influence on language teaching, analysing language choice, language order and the predominance of English.

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Culture teaching in foreign language education. EFL teachers in Spain as cultural mediators

Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras ◽

10.30827/digibug.28351 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

Lies Sercu

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

Efl Teachers ◽

Cultural Mediators ◽

Culture Teaching ◽

Teaching In Foreign Language

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RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF DIDACTIC PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

BULLETIN Series of Philological Sciences ◽

10.51889/2021-1.1728-7804.66 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

pp. 379-385

Author(s):

F. Smailova ◽

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S. Zhapakov ◽

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Teaching Methods ◽

Common Knowledge ◽

Applied Linguistics ◽

Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

Economic Changes ◽

Methods And Techniques ◽

Object Of Study ◽

Goals And Objectives

This article is devoted to socio-economic changes of the country, reforms of educational system, and new requirements in the field of foreign language education. The study of the methodology of teaching a foreign language as an applied linguistics is due to the fact that the methodology of the 1930s did not sufficiently define the specificity of a foreign language as a subject and did not develop a system of research methods.It is common knowledge that in pedagogy and methodology there is one object of study - processes of training, goals and objectives of training, education and the content of subjects. The practice of teaching a foreign language requires the development of problems of the content of teaching methods and techniques, its goals and objectives. The study of the problem of domestic didactics made it possible to reveal that in the Soviet methodological literature there is different coverage of the issue of teaching a foreign language during the studied period.

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