scholarly journals An analysis of Gazi University Tomer B1 book in terms of values educationGazi Üniversitesi Tömer B1 seviyesi kitabının değerler eğitimi bakımından incelenmesi

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 755
Author(s):  
Gökmen Boztilki
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Values Education ◽  
English Summary ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Common Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
Technological Opportunities

Teaching a language is an action that involves teaching not only the grammar, but also the culture, traditions, and the point of view of the world. The concept of value is one of the elements that make up culture, tradition and the individual's perspective on the world. One of the problems experienced by individuals who learn Turkish as a foreign language is the problem of incompatibility caused by not recognizing these values.One of the most important principles in the field of foreign language teaching is the principle of transferring culture along with language. In this context, language teaching is also culture teaching. Today technological opportunities bring many innovations and developments in education field, but the basics of foreign language teaching are still forming textbooks. These books are one of the important factors of cultural transfer. In order to achieve a healthy education in Turkish as a foreign language, the values belonging to the society must be reflected in the books of the foreign language in a balanced way. In this study,which aims to anaylze the book B1 level for foreigners in terms of values education, the descriptive document scanning model was taken into consideration. According to the results of the analysis, all values in Schwartz classification are shown in Turkish B1 book for foreigners at Gazi University TOMER. While the most common values in the classification are self-direction and benevolence, the least common value is conformity.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetBir dilin öğretimi yalnızca dil bilgisini değil aynı zamanda o dilin  kültürünü, geleneklerini, dünyaya bakış açısını da öğretmeyi içeren bir eylemdir. Kültürü, geleneği ve bireyin dünyaya bakış açısını oluşturan unsurların başında ise değer kavramı gelmektedir. Türkçeyi yabancı dil olarak öğrenen bireylerin yaşadıkları sorunlardan biri de bu değerleri tanımamaktan kaynaklanan uyumsuzluk  sorunudur. Yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğretiminin ilkelerinden biri de dil ve kültür aktarımının aynı anda sağlanmasıdır.  Bu bağlamda dil öğretimi aynı zamanda kültür öğretimidir.Günümüzde teknolojik imkanlar eğitim alanında da birçok yenilik ve gelişimi beraberinde getirse de yabancı dil öğretiminin temelini halen ders kitapları oluşturmaktadır. Bu kitaplar kültür aktarımının önemli unsurlarından biridir. Yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğretiminde değerler eğitiminin sağlıklı gerçekleşebilmesi için topluma ait değerlerin yabancı dil kitaplarına da dengeli bir şekilde yansıması gereklidir. Gazi Üniversitesi TÖMER Yabancılar İçin Türkçe B1 seviyesi kitabının değerler eğitimi açısından incelenmesinin amaçlandığı bu çalışmada, betimsel nitelikli döküman tarama modeli kullanılmıştır.Tarama sonuçlarına göre Gazi üniversitesi TÖMER Yabancılar için Türkçe B1 kitabında Schwartz’ın sınıflandırmasındaki bütün değerlere yer verildiği görülmektedir. Sınıflandırma  içindeki değerlerden kitapta en çok yer alan değerler özyönelim (self-direction)  ve  iyilikseverlik (benevolence) iken en az yer verilen değer ise uyma (conformity) olmuştur.

scholarly journals Linguodidactic potential of concepts in teaching foreign languages to students-interpreters

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-262
Author(s):  
Svetlana S. Vasilenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
The World ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature

The paper discusses possibilities and ways of studying concepts in teaching foreign languages to students-interpreters. The author notes that modern didactic research has interdisciplinary nature, analyzes the theory of the concept from the point of view of linguistics, cultural studies and psycholinguistics. The author also notes the fact of creation of linguo-conceptodidactics as a new scientific direction. The paper presents a linguodidactic understanding of the concept, analyzes its structure and semantic content. The author describes in detail the process of foreign language concepts acquisition and presents it as a sequence of several stages. The acquisition of foreign language concepts is associated with the development of concept competence. The paper notes that the acquisition of foreign language concepts should go in parallel with the acquisition of foreign language lexis. In addition, it is necessary to use authentic materials in teaching foreign languages that allows forming a conceptual picture of the world of native speakers. Acquisition of foreign language concepts is especially important for students-interpreters who study several foreign languages and are faced with the problem of translating foreign concepts and phenomena of foreign language reality. The paper presents how conceptuality can be realized in teaching foreign languages. The author gives a practical example of studying the English concept Travel, offers examples of exercises and tasks for mastering it, as well as mnemonic techniques for memorizing lexemes that represent the concept. In the paper is stressed, that the concepts should be included in the content of foreign language teaching to students-interpreters. This contributes to the development of correct ideas about foreign language reality, understanding the facts of the native and foreign language culture, i.e. cultural reflection development.

INTEGRATING POETRY INTO THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Savchenko
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Poetic Texts

The article deals with the theoretical foundations of foreign language acquisition which are related to the integration of poetic texts into foreign language teaching. The article defines poetic text and its role in foreign language teaching and focuses on the selected foreign language acquisition theories and their interconnectedness with using poetic texts in the teaching of foreign languages.

POLITICAL EDUCATION AS A NECESSARY PART OF AN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Polcicova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
National Level ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Education ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Noticeable Increase

"There is currently a noticeable increase in extremism, populism, hatred and intolerance in all EU countries, which are evoked by several political conflicts, social events (critical situation in Afghanistan, response to the COVID pandemic, conflict in Ukraine, migration from third countries etc.). Political education as an integral part of the educational process in schools, not only at the national level, we therefore naturally consider it one of the tools for promoting democratic tools in society. We also consider foreign language teaching to be one of the tools of political education. Within it, on the example of learning about important political events, which at the same time shaped the moral democratic values of the bearers of a given language, we can mediate a critical analysis of the way of life in a given developmental stage of society. The aim of our paper is to present the idea of the educational process as a driving force for the spread of democratic values on the example of foreign language teaching at our faculty. From the point of view of theoretical backgrounds, we define the very concept of political education on the example of several experts in the field of sociology, politics and education. In order to find out the current state of the concept of political education in the educational process at national and transnational level, we analyze the individual documents of the European Union. Throughout the post, we mainly use qualitative data, such as thematic analysis, to interpret patterns and meanings in the data and descriptive data."

CONTEMPORARY LINGUODIDACTICS: DEFINING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

2013 ◽  
pp. 328-331
Author(s):  
T. K. Tsvetkova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Final Goal ◽  
The World ◽  
Bilingual Development ◽  
Goals And Objectives

The author suggests her own interpretation of goals and objectives of foreign language teaching based on the author’s original conception of mastering a foreign language as a process of bilingual development. At present the practical goal of foreign language teaching is formulated by linguodidactics in terms of competences. The communicative competence is treated as a key concept integrating all other competences. It denotes a subject’s ability to carry out cross-cultural interaction and to use a foreign language as an instrument of such interaction. However, this interpretation of the goals of foreign language teaching does not demonstrate specificity of foreign language learning in comparison with other disciplines studied at school or university. While studying those subjects a student interprets them in terms of her own, monolingual, picture of the world. She does not have to develop notions, which are absent in the native culture. The foreign language is totally different: in order to master it, a student has to step outside the boundaries of her own picture of the world and master a number of new notions and concepts. In other words, a student must become bilingual and bicultural. Otherwise her understanding of the foreign language will remain limited by the conceptual system of the mother tongue, she will not be able to see the proper meanings of the other culture. Therefore the goals and objectives of foreign language teaching should be defined according to regularities of bilingual development. The final goal should not be described as a set of competencies, but as a form of bilingualism. In that case the final goal consists in the student’s achieving the stage of balanced mixed bilingualism which is optimal for professional activity with a foreign language. This involves development in a student of an additional complete mechanism of language command responsible for producing and perceiving speech in the foreign language. Intermediate goals and objectives should be defined by the task of forming each block of the mechanism of foreign language command.

scholarly journals Construction of Acculturation-Oriented Teaching Pattern in College Foreign Languages Courses – From Cultural Experience Theory Perspective

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-243
Author(s):  
Shujun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
Teaching Pattern

Language is an integral part of culture and culture’s big role in language learning can never be exaggerated too much. With worldwide globalization development, it grows to be a heated topic on how to improve foreign language learning outcome by culture teaching. Based on Schumann’s Acculturation Model and Moran’s Cultural Experience Theory, attempts are made to shed more light on acculturation-oriented pattern construction from cultural experience perspective to guide college foreign language teaching in a more effective way. In addition, pedagogical implications are put forward as well.

Gender representation in Iranian English language coursebooks

English Today ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Dahmardeh ◽  
Sung-Do Kim
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Gender Representation ◽  
Gender Group ◽  
Deep Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

The representation of gender in foreign language teaching has attracted the attention of many scholars and has been investigated in different parts of the world. Due to its potential for deep impact on pupils, it is a matter of great concern. Discrimination against a gender group in coursebooks can lead to harmful impacts on pupils' development as well as on their future academic and career (Lee, 2018). The lack of representation of females in language coursebooks may seriously harm their ability to understand the target language as well as its culture (Rifkin, 1998).

scholarly journals Disadvantages of traditional teaching foreign languages to modern students of Generation Z

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-110
Author(s):  
Світлана ПЕЧЕНІЗЬКА (Губарєва) ◽  
Олена ЗАВАЛЬНА
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Academic Results

The article provides an analysis of the typical characteristics of generation Z students. These characteristics should be taken into account by teachers while constructing classes in higher educational establishments of Ukraine in order to find out the possible ways for the effectiveness effectiveness of learning process. In addition, some disadvantages of traditional foreign language teaching from a modern point of view are systematized to choose the most appropriate learning styles for students of Generation Z to improve their academic results. The paper reflects the authors’ methodological recommendations as for the most effective (from their own experience with students) modern strategies of teaching foreign language (English) in Ukraine.

scholarly journals Exploring Effective Foreign Language Teaching from the Eyes of Iranian Learners: Reporting a Qualitative Interview Study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Oskouei ◽  
Azizollah Dabaghi ◽  
Dariush Nejad Ansari
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
Teacher Personality

This article reports on a qualitative study of the learners’ beliefs about effective foreign language teaching in an Iranian setting. A semi-structured interview covering several fundamental issues in foreign language (FL) pedagogy was conducted with 22 upper-intermediate Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Qualitative content analysis of the transcript data yielded several interesting and informative themes. Among the most prominent results of the study, mention can be made of learners’ strong penchant for modern, learner-centered approaches to FL teaching such as communicative language teaching (CLT) and task-based language teaching (TBLT). Among the other notable themes were learners’ endorsement of teachers’ high proficiency and pedagogical knowledge, positive teacher personality, the integration of culture teaching in the classes, and sustaining learner interest and motivation. The results have implications for knowledge-based teacher education as well as for practicing and prospective FL teachers.

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