scholarly journals Developing Computational Thinking Skills Through Modeling in Language Lessons

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Marina Rottenhofer ◽  
Barbara Sabitzer ◽  
Thomas Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Profound Knowledge ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Technical Effort ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Technology is rapidly changing the world around us and thus, there is a need to adjust education by teaching children skills that are required in the fast-paced digital life. One problem-solving skillset, which has gained considerable attention in the last couple of years, is computational thinking (CT). Up to now, many countries have already implemented CT as an integral part of their education curricula, however, there is still often the misconception that teaching CT requires high technical effort and profound knowledge of computer science. Whereas CT is useful in any subject, it is not necessarily linked to technology and helps children to tackle problems by applying skills that are used in computer science. One effective hands-on approach to foster CT in every subject is modeling. A model is a simplified and reduced version of the real world and modeling is the process of creating it. In this paper, the authors focus on fostering CT skills with models from the field of computer science (CS) in foreign language teaching. The authors present several CS models, that have proven to be useful in language teaching, demonstrate how this approach can foster CT skills and give an insight into their research.

scholarly journals Organizational and methodological support of preschoolers’ thinking skills development during problem foreign language teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 289-298
Author(s):  
Valentina N. Kartashova ◽  
◽  
Natalia V. Volynkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Experimental Program ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Logical Thinking

Introduction. Contemporary requirements to quality improving organizational and methodological support of preschoolers’ thinking skills development in object spatial environment and insufficient development of technological aspect of the problem highlight the search for new pedagogical opportunities among them on the basis of developing potential of children foreign language education.Resolving the contradiction lies in multifunctional substantively rich program creation in this direction and its implementation in the pre-school educational institution. Materials and methods. The study covered 114 (the control group – 57 children, the experimental group – 57 children) Voronezh and Yelets (Russian Federation) preschoolers at the age of 5,5–7,5. To diagnose the development level of imaginatively logical, visibly active and verbally logical thinking skills we used the methods of L.A. Venger, M. I. Ilyina, R. S. Nemov, G. A. Uruntayeva. The results were proved by the χ2-Pearson statistical test. Research results. The quantitative and qualitative review of the experimental teaching statistical data proved the fact that implementation of the authors’ experimental program based on problem teaching and creation of certain pedagogical conditions for preschoolers’ thinking skills stimulation enhance significantly the level of children’s intellectual development during early foreign language education (χ2 = 13,376 > χ20,05). Discussion and conclusion. For the first time a program was created and implementation conditions on the basis of the problem approach were identified. They included different types of children’s’ activity for joint foreign language communicative task performance and stimulated greatly development of preschoolers’ imaginatively logical, visibly active and verbally logical thinking skillsduring problem foreign language teaching. On the basis of the program a tutorially methodical set may be developed which would contribute to improving organizational and methodological support of preschoolers’ thinking skills development.

Group blog as one of the modern Internet-technologies in foreign language teaching

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Ivan Dronov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Constituent Elements

The using of modern Internet-technologies in a foreign language teaching is one of the most promising areas from the standpoint of optimizing the educational process. We propose the author’s definition of the term Internet-technology, which refers to the multi-species system of in-teraction between a teacher and a student with using modern technical tools of the Internet, aimed at the realization of the tasks set by communication. Also group blog is defined as the most promising subtype of Internet-technologies. It was given the author’s definition as a collective blog in which students from one group publish their work for further discussion with the aim of developing thought-thinking skills. The constituent elements of the communication act, including the participants, purpose, theme, language tools and circumstances, are implemented with group blog using. The advantage of didactic properties and methodological functions of the group blog in the formation and development of the communication skills “reading”, “writing”, “speaking”, “speech” and “listening” is noted. Studied in the scientific research center type of blog is presented as a unified platform for communication and space for teamwork of users group and moderator. Based on the constant set of statuses and roles in the teacher–student dyad, the thematic focus of blog is determined by the moderator – completing of assignments, participation in discussion of published material, reflection on other users’ messages. We also examine the group blog as one of the modern Internet-technologies in foreign language teaching.

scholarly journals Czy milczenie zawsze jest złotem? Percepcja ciszy i milczenia na zajęciach z praktycznej znajomości języka angielskiego

Neofilolog ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Danuta Wiśniewska
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Classroom Language ◽  
Insight Into

Formal foreign language teaching involves verbal and non-verbal interactions among the participants of language classes. The nature of these interactions may play a decisive role in the success or failure in language learning. The research described in this paper attempted to gain insight into students' perceptions of silence occurring during classroom language learning, to identify its causes and effects, and to appraise its potential value for learners.

scholarly journals Text in the Foreign Language Teaching

2012 ◽  
pp. 204-209
Author(s):  
N. N. Klementsova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Foreign Language Classroom ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

The article offers a short review of the history of text studies undertaken by different branches of linguistic sciences and focuses on the possibilities of the text in the foreign language classroom aiming at the development of the students’ communicative competence. The text is characterized as a form of language units actualization, as structural and semantic entity giving an insight into the mechanism for sense integration in the processes of text production and comprehension. The text is also described as a base for the development of correlating receptive and productive skills of the students.

scholarly journals Development of foreign language intercultural interaction skills of students for the purpose of foreign language teaching at a linguistic university

Neophilology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Roman A. Danilin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Intercultural Interaction ◽  
Intercultural Conflicts ◽  
Interaction Skills

Development of foreign language intercultural interaction skills is one of the main goals of foreign language teaching to students of the “Pedagogical Education” (profile “English Language”) programme. At the same time, the content of teaching foreign language intercultural interaction is the subject of discussion in the scientific literature. In this study we present the history of the problem of formulating the goals of foreign language teaching, consider several models of foreign language communicative competence and intercultural competence. As a result, a list of inter-cultural skills is generalized, the development of which will be able to prepare students for inter-cultural interaction in various situations characterized by both “dialogue of cultures” and “non-dialogue of cultures”. These skills include: a) acting as an initiator of intercultural interaction; b) support for intercultural dialogue in the spirit of peace to achieve communication goals; c) the development of critical thinking skills in relation to the interpretation of facts, information, reali-ties from the standpoint of ethnorelativism; d) acting as a intermediary or mediator between representatives of different cultures, with the leveling of intercultural contradictions, respect for representatives of contacting cultures; e) a way out of the situation of intercultural conflict; f) suppression of intercultural conflicts; g) finding agreement in intercultural conflicts.

ORGANIZATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE AT HIGH SCHOOL

2021 ◽  
pp. 118-123
Author(s):  
Denysenko I.I. ◽  
Tarasiuk A.M.
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Technological Basis ◽  
Independent Work

The article is devoted to one of the advanced formats of foreign language teaching at high school, which effectively complements extramural and full-time forms of education – distance learning. The author emphasizes that the quality and effectiveness of foreign languages distance learning athigher educational establishments depends on effectively organized course; the pedagogical skills of teachers, participating in the educational process; the quality of applied methodical content.The main principles of foreign languages distance learning in higher education has been covered, the means of improving the quality and effectiveness of this educational format has been proposed, the key conceptual regulations of foreign languages distance learning has been determined. The article proposes a model for organizing foreign languages distance learning course for future specialists, describes a system to control and monitor the knowledge of all types of speech activities. It is also noted that independent work in the foreign languages distance course at high school should not be passive, but on the contrary, the student should be involved in active cognitive activities, not limited to acquiring foreign language skills, but necessarily includes their practical application; to solve certain communicative tasks in the future professional activity.The article concludes that in the process of organizing the foreign language distance learning course at high school, it is necessary to take into account not only the didactic characteristics and functions of multimedia and telecommunications as a technological basis, but also the conceptual trends of didactic distance learning as a component of modern education. In addition, it is necessary to take into account the specific nature of foreign language teaching in general.Key words: higher educational establishment, distance learning, multimedia means, independent work, information and communicative technologies, Internet, interactive engagement.

Similarities in the Syntactic Structure of the German and Croatian Language

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
Manuela Svoboda
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Subordinate Clause ◽  
German Language ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Subordinate Clauses

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyse any potential similarities between the Croatian and German language and present them adopting a contrastive approach with the intent of simplifying the learning process in regards to the German syntactic structure for Croatian German as foreign language students. While consulting articles and books on the theories and methods of foreign language teaching, attention is usually drawn to differences between the mother tongue and the foreign language, especially concerning false friends etc. The same applies to textbooks, workbooks and how teachers behave in class. Thus, it is common practice to deal with the differences between the foreign language and the mother tongue but less with similarities. This is unfortunate considering that this would likely aid in acquiring certain grammatical and syntactic structures of the foreign language. In the author's opinion, similarities are as, if not more, important than differences. Therefore, in this article the existence of similarities between the Croatian and German language will be examined closer with a main focus on the segment of sentence types. Special attention is drawn to subordinate clauses as they play an important role when speaking and/or translating sentences from Croatian to German and vice versa. In order to present and further clarify this matter, subordinate clauses in both the German and Croatian language are defined, clarified and listed to gain an oversight and to present possible similarities between the two. In addition, the method to identify subordinate clauses in a sentence is explained as well as what they express, which conjunctions are being used for each type of subordinate clause in both languages and where the similarities and/or differences between the two languages lie.

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