scholarly journals Analysis of requirements of labour market and preparedness of university students

2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Duda ◽  
Tomáš Kotrba
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Further Training ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Teaching Grammar

Educated university graduates are demanded by employers. Requirements of employers on graduates are high; most required are communication skills, decision-making skills, problem solution skills. Very often demand is graduates’ willingness to further education, knowledge of foreign languages. The paper describes the opinions of students of Faculty of agronomics and Faculty of business and economics MUAF in Brno on the possibilities to deepen selected skills. Students of both faculties realize the necessity of further training. More than 96% of students consider the knowledge of foreign languages to be very important and prefer teaching grammar and conversation. Students evaluated the quality of teaching foreign languages at MZLU in Brno, too. Almost 40% of students of Faculty of agronomics and 70% of students of the Faculty of business and economics consider the teaching of foreign languages as insufficient. These negative views were probably influenced by a small extent of teaching languages during their studies. Communication skills represent another significant factor, and students evaluated the possibility to develop these skills, as well. 50% of respondents from the Faculty of agronomics evaluate these skills as necessary for practice and positively evaluate the development of these skills within teaching at MUAF in Brno. Positive evaluation of communication skills development was also found nearly in three quarters of respondents from Faculty of business and economics.

scholarly journals Teachers and teaching in upper secondary education: a comparison of systems in place across secondary and FE sectors

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Review Current

The training of teachers in upper secondary education varies considerably dependent on whether training is undertaken as a secondary school teacher or as a teacher within the Further Education (FE) system. Indeed, until the late 1990s, the training of teachers in FE had been the focus of little regulation by Government. Differences also occur across the UK with different pathways in place in the home countries. Regardless of the pathway taken to teaching in upper secondary education there are concerns that the teaching in schools and FE is still not good enough. The Coalition Government has proposed many reforms to the training of teachers in schools and a consultation exercise has been undertaken on the training of teachers in the FE sector. This article will review current approaches to the training of teachers in the home countries of the UK. Attention will be given to the proposed reforms in order to consider how these might contribute to raising the standard of teacher training and hence the quality of teaching in schools and FE.

scholarly journals THE SITUATION OF ENGLISH TEACHERS FOSTERING ACTIVITIES AT SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KE SACH DISTRICT, SOC TRANG PROVINCE, VIETNAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lan Yen Thi Mai
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
The Status ◽  
Learning English

<p>This article aims to provide scientific, accurate and overall information on the English teachers fostering activities at secondary schools in Ke Sach district, Soc Trang province. Via the sociological survey method and direct interview, this article has informed comprehensively about the status of teachers’ quality and students’ results in learning English, English teachers’ awareness of fostering activities, implementing teaching contents under the teaching and learning foreign languages project, as well as English teachers fostering activity methods, and forms of English teachers fostering activities of educational managers. The results of the study are the basis to improve the quality of teaching and learning foreign languages for students at secondary schools in Ke Sach district, Soc Trang province.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0951/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Quality and competitiveness of educational services in the view of students: problems and perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 939-950
Author(s):  
Olga F. Piralova ◽  
Natalya A. Uimanova ◽  
Marina V. Olinder ◽  
Aleksandr А. Shumeiko ◽  
Elena V. Kulesh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Level Of Training ◽  
Insufficient Knowledge

Nowadays, various transformations are taking place in higher education in Russia, which is primarily determined by the fact that the issue of ensuring the quality of educational services, increasing the requirements for the level of university graduates - future specialists and the introduction of new teaching methods is quite acute. The research aims to study the peculiarities of students' perception of the quality of education. As a research method, we used a questionnaire survey to quickly and effectively investigate students' idea of the quality of educational services provided to them. The article examines students' attitude to the education they receive and reveals the students' representation of the demand for the education they receive in the labor market. The study's novelty and originality lie in the fact that students' ideas about the quality of educational services are considered. It is revealed that the knowledge that graduates receive is evaluated as high quality, and several shortcomings identified by students in professional training (insufficient knowledge of practical skills, foreign languages) are revealed. It is shown that according to graduates, the level of training of specialists mainly meets the requirements of the labor market. The practical significance of the data obtained in this work lies in their use in social psychology, age psychology, marketing, and further theoretical development of this issue.

scholarly journals Linguistic and didactic aspects of the “linguistic consciousness” formation in teaching foreign languages: grammar skills formation

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Aida R. Nurutdinova ◽  
Olga V. Shelestova ◽  
Irian Vasallo Baez
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Gradual Increase ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Grammatical Skills ◽  
Communication Step

The process of learning grammar is quite time-consuming. Poor grammar is often the reason that prevents people from communicating freely and competently in a foreign language. Definitely, some textbooks offer a sufficient number of grammar exercises, but, as a rule, these exercises are not aimed at communication. Therefore, it is quite natural that at the beginning of the formation of grammar skills, students do not have sufficient linguistic competence and psychological readiness for full-fledged foreign language communication. Consequently, the task of teachers is to create such conditions in the educational process where students are involved in communication step by step, with a gradual increase in psychological stress and linguistic load, at the same time including grammar tasks in the learning process. Thus, the relevance of this article is determined by the increased requirements for the quality of teaching a foreign language with a view to earlier communication and the undeveloped issues related to the problem of developing and improving grammatical skills.

The theatre team

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suyin GM Tan ◽  
Andy McWilliam
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
Resuscitation Room ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
Operating Theatres ◽  
Communication Breakdowns

A core attribute of the anaesthetist is the ability to communicate effectively in a variety of difficult situations and contexts. During the course of a theatre list the anaesthetist may interact with literally dozens of people—surgeons, patients, nurses, wardspeople, radiographers, trainees, and so on. Many will be complete strangers while others may be old friends, or enemies! Virtually all of them will have some part, be it big or small, to play in achieving a safe and successful outcome for patients. Operating theatres are often busy, stressful places. Events can unfold quickly and in unpredictable ways. Tension is frequently an integral part of the process of undertaking surgical procedures. Observational studies demonstrate that communication errors are common, and result in tension, delay, and wastage— as borne out by everyday experience. There is a tendency to view communication breakdowns as an inevitable fact of theatre life. However, evidence shows that behaviours and attitudes can be altered. Improving teamwork and communication improves morale and has the potential to improve patient outcomes. Most anaesthetists view themselves as good communicators, able to deal with virtually all communication problems, yet breakdown in communication is commonly cited as a root cause of medical error. Interestingly most anaesthetists feel that their training in communication has been adequate and do not seek further education in communication skills despite the evidence that poor communication leads to adverse events. Much of what follows is generic to all interactions with co-workers, and some aspects are of particular significance to particular disciplines. The evidence would indicate that everyone needs to improve their communication skills for the benefit of patients, and this chapter is written with the intention of providing tools to do this. The relationship between anaesthetist and surgeon is unique in medicine. In no other context, except possibly in the resuscitation room, do two or more specialists, from different disciplines, spend extended periods of time simultaneously treating a single patient. The quality of this relationship has important repercussions for patient safety and outcome, professional job satisfaction and the maintenance of good team-work in the theatre environment.

A step-by-step integration of isiZulu mood as a grammatical feature into secondary school level creative writing

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-233
Author(s):  
Isaac Mndawe
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Morphological Structure ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Further Education ◽  
School Level ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Image Grammar ◽  
Teaching Grammar

This article proposes how to infuse grammatical features, isiZulu moods in particular, into the creative writing processes at Senior and Further Education and Training (SP and FET) Phases. IsiZulu moods are grammatical features that are underused by teachers in the teaching of isiZulu creative writing. This study would help isiZulu teachers to acquire adequate language teaching skills and techniques, thus learning the proper application of grammatical feature. IsiZulu teachers would shift from teaching grammar as a standalone to communicative language teaching. The main method of investigation was the review of literature on the teaching of grammar, such as the works of Harry Noden, Image Grammar, isiZulu textbooks and methodology books used for language teaching. The Departmentof Education curriculum documents were analysed and discussed systematically. We have observed that the presentation of moods in most isiZulu of school textbooks is technical in that it focuses on their morphological structure and less on their semantic and syntacticstructures. The syllabus is not explicit why grammatical feature, such as mood, should be studied and how learners can apply the different moods in their creative writing activities. We argue that learning how to use isiZulu moods could improve learners’ quality of writing and enable them to write effective texts. Keywords: Creative writing; writing skills; isiZulu grammar; sentences; moods

IMPORTANCE OF GERMAN LANGUAGE IN CROATIAN TOURISM

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 149-158
Author(s):  
Nevenka Blažević ◽  
Brigita Bosnar-Valković
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
German Language ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Important Prerequisite ◽  
German Speaking

Communication skills present one of the most important components of the quality service in the tourism industry. They are based on the knowledge of foreign languages which is the most important prerequisite for satisfying the guests’ needs. The structure of foreign guests in Croatia classified by emitting countries proves that the part o f the German speaking guests in comparison with other language communities is the most prominent one, so that we can conclude that German is the foreign language number one in Croatian tourism. Within our research the questionnaire was carried out among German guests on holiday in Opatija with the main topic: quality service referring to the communication in German with hotel staff. The results of the performed questionnaire provide very important guidelines for the special appreciation of German language and of course its further improvement which is at the same time a very important contribution to the quality of the tourist product.

scholarly journals The Use of ICT in Search of Quality of Teaching at the University

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabila BEDJAOUI
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) gives another vision of language learning and provides learners a certain pleasure to deal with these languages. The current work aims at shedding light on the existing link between the use of ICT and the improvement of the quality of teaching languages at the university. We will articulate our research around the following questions: what are the implications of using ICT in the process of teaching/learning foreign languages? Does ICT provide more independence for the learner? As a hypothesis, we propose the following: ICT sharpens learners' willingness and desire to learn while facilitating their access to language and culture. It installs them in a report of independence thus favoring the acquisition of the skills. To report on this problem, we will rely on a survey conducted within the Center of Intensive Language Teaching of the University of Biskra, Algeria. We used a questionnaire, as a mean of investigation. We subjected our corpus to a quantitative analysis followed by a qualitative interpretative analysis.

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