Psychological Bases of the Foreign-Language Education of Seniors (Not Only) with Health Disability

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-43
Author(s):  
Marianna Müller de Morais ◽  
Lucia Rapsová ◽  
Radka Zimanová
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Grant Agency ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Education Science

AbstractAccording to international documents, older people have a right to carry out and fully develop their abilities, skills and competences, as well as to have a dignified place and position in the society. Seniors with a certain kind of health disability have the same right as well. Due to this reason, it is indispensable and necessary to create suitable conditions for disabled seniors and to provide them a place for their personal development and self-fulfilment oriented on their fully valuable life in spite of their health disadvantage. The foreign-language education can be considered to be one of the possibilities of the self-fulfilment of seniors (not only) with health disability. Learning of a foreign language is an immanent part of education, however, it is necessary to keep certain specific features in the foreign-language education of this target group. This subject study is aimed on the analysis of psychological bases and chosen specific features of foreign-language education of seniors (not only) with health disability. It mentions chosen psycho-didactic aspects of the education of seniors (not only) with health disability. The study is an output of the authors from solving the research project of Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences n.1/0176/15 called Paradigms in education of adults and seniors with disability in the residential care.

scholarly journals Research of building structures in extreme climate conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Dušan Katunský ◽  
Lenka Kabošová ◽  
Erika Dolníková ◽  
Marek Zozulák
Keyword(s):  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Grant Agency ◽  
Project Objectives ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Education Science ◽  
Vega 1

AbstractThe paper provides information on the solution of project supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of VEGA of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of Slovak Republic and of the Slovak Academy of Sciences of Slovak Republic. There is project: VEGA 1/0674/18. This research project is programmed for the years 2018 to 2021. In this paper are presented information on the results obtained in 2019, solution of this project objectives and project solution. The results are presented in realized publications. We focused mainly on the presentation of major publications, articles in domestic and foreign journals, articles in conference proceedings with an emphasis on publications that are indexed in the WOS and SCOPUS databases.

Moscow megapolis as an educational environment in the system of intercultural foreign language education

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
V.A. Goncharova ◽  
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V.V. Alpatov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
The Social

Substantiated is the thesis for necessity and possibility of using the social cultural resources of Moscow city to establish an educational environment suitable for building intercultural communicative competence when teaching students foreign languages from the perspective of the intercultural approach. As a key point, the authors put forward the thesis that it is regional culture which is the only one available to the student to abide and understand by their national native culture (which comes equal with learning a foreign language culture within the goal-setting of intercultural foreign language education). At the same time, Moscow is grounded as a resource space for intercultural foreign language education, being a place for building the social environment and communication relations, the center of the regional level of native culture, and the city of intercultural communication. The authors define the related educational urbanistics as interdisciplinary field of designing socio-humanitarian knowledge and experience in the context of the mutually enriching integration of urban space and value-specific (educational) trajectories of personal development of the citizen. As a result, the authors formulate the basic principles of urban educational environment in the context of foreign language intercultural communicative training of students, including the following: knowledge of the universal (global) through the single (local), methodological work with space as a resource and a factor in educational activity design, taking an educational environment as an individually perceived value, designing individual educational trajectory on the basis of mapping, contextual learning, the priority of spontaneous meaning-making, a conscious distinction between education and vocational training.

scholarly journals Development of Foreign Language Speaking Skills through the Application of the Dynamic Model of Speech Production and Activating Methods

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Adriana Pčolinská ◽  
Rastislav Metruk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
University Teachers

Abstract The present time places considerable demands on the process of foreign language education both in the field of communication and information transfer. Teachers, occupying a pivotal role in this process, are not able to proceed with simple, lay approaches and methods. It has become more and more important to apply sophisticated approaches and methods in teaching which are based on primary and secondary researches. This paper discusses the Dynamic Model of Speech Production as a specific approach to EFL teaching. Furthermore, the application of activating methods in the process of teaching English as a foreign language is examined from the standpoint of gender, country, length of teaching practice, and type of university. The data was collected using a questionnaire about the use and the frequency of occurrence of activating methods, which was completed by 82 university teachers from the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic.

scholarly journals Necessity of improvement of foreign language teaching in the Slovak Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-263
Author(s):  
Marcela Šarvajcová ◽  
Monika Štrbová
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers

Aim. The aim of the research study was to investigate the opinions of the Slovakian secondary school foreign language teachers and learn about their views on the system of education in the field of enhancement of teachers` professional qualifications. Methods. To perform the results of the study the method of focus group was used. Results. The results of the presented research show the differences between the perception of foreign language education in the past and how it appears today through the views of selected number of foreign language teachers in Slovakia. The pivotal role is played by the technological skills of the students and their ability to use information technologies instructed in foreign languages. The research results also indicate the possibilities of teachers to get in direct contact with the target foreign language as a part of their professional development. The research participants also specified the factors that they considered the most influential in the process of foreign language learning. Conclusion. The purpose of the article is to discuss the urge to achieve highly professional foreign language education in today`s technological society. As shown by the results obtained from the focus group, the teachers/participants agreed on a single highly impactful factor: family.

scholarly journals Implementation of Global Development Education into the Curriculum at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak University of Agriculture

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-61
Author(s):  
Eva Svitačová ◽  
Anna Mravcová
Keyword(s):  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Current System ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Education Science

The new phenomenon of global development education (GDE) has gradually penetrated the curricula in Slovakia. For the purpose of more comprehensively preparing future economic actors, who will operate in the new global economic and social environment, we have decided to incorporate this topic into the curriculum at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak University of Agriculture (FEM SUA). The national research project KEGA, supported by the Slovak Republic 's Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Sport, is also focused on this issue. Its objective is to develop a more comprehensive and current system of GDE for economic faculties in Slovakia, and to propose appropriate methods for its implementation into the educational process. This paper presents information about how the various themes and issues associated with the new educational approach are implemented into the curriculum at FEM SUA, as well as information on what new measures are proposed and are currently being gradually realized in order to clarify to the students the global dimension of processes and phenomena. The project is based on qualitative research undertaken via the study and analysis of public documents and of audio and video recordings made of faculty and at national discussion workshops. Through the analysis of individual discussions we identify not only the appropriate content of GDE within economics faculties but also the most appropriate forms for its implementation into the educational process at FEM SUA and at other economics faculties in Slovakia.

Analysis of Causes and Evolution of Unemployment in Slovak Republic and its Influence on Enterprises

Ekonomika ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alžbeta Kucharčiková ◽  
Jozef Vodák
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Slovak Academy ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
Grant Agency ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This article is one of the outputs from authors’ activities in the scientific project “Diagnostics of input entities of transformation business processes”. This project is founded by a grant from the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Sciences. This article is based on research work (in the year 2003), primarily in the Slovak Republic.

scholarly journals Foreign language education of seniors

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ctibor Határ ◽  
Soňa Grofčíková
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Youth Research

Abstract This study is of a theoretical-conceptual nature and is a partial outcome of the research project VEGA MŠVVaŠ SR and SAV no. 1/0176/15. It deals with one of the problems currently faced by educational theory and practice, i.e. the foreign language education of seniors. The trend is typical for many EU member states, since it results from the needs of a modern society. In addition to strategic documents, programs and legislation which binds the Slovak Republic to create conditions for lifelong education, including foreign language education, the authors are more closely preoccupied with specificities and possibilities of the language education of seniors, which are explained on a comparative basis with the language education of children and youth. Even though in literature one can find results of many substantial empirical research projects devoted to foreign language education of children and youth, research into the education of adults and seniors in the area of foreign languages falls behind considerably. A sufficient platform for the methodology of language education of adults and seniors in Slovakia has not been created either, if compared with the methodology of language education of younger age categories. This shortcoming is often quite noticeable in practice. The study attempts to pay adequate attention to the analysis of selected teaching styles specific for adult and senior age as well as teaching methods which may be used in the language education of seniors.

scholarly journals The development of future teachers’ foreign language education in the context of the European Council strategic documents

2021 ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
Iryna Onishchuk ◽  
Anastasiia Petrova ◽  
Nataliia Tonkonoh ◽  
Neonila Partyko ◽  
Diana Kochmar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Education Science

Among the main tasks of higher education defined by the National Doctrine for the Development of Education of Ukraine in the 21st century are the following: to form the necessary intellectual and moral basis necessary for future professional activities in the fields of education, science, culture and to form the qualities necessary for further professional development. Such qualities include global thinking; professional values and morals; cultural competence; functional literacy and professional universality; culture of communication; ability to apply knowledge in professional situations; responsibility, the culture of group interaction, social and professional mobility, ability to study for a lifetime, foreign language and sociocultural competence in a foreign language among students of humanities. Now foreign-language education in Ukraine is being reformed taking into account the achievements of European countries by such documents of the Council of Europe as: “Bilingual education: the main strategic tasks”, “All-European competencies in foreign language proficiency: study, teaching, evaluation”, “European language portfolio”, “Aligning language exams with All-European recommendations on language education”, “Strategic development program for Multilingual Europe 2020”, “Recommendations on pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures”, requirements for Euro-exams, etc. The ideas of the language policy of the Council of Europe are increasingly being implemented in our country: the number of languages is increasing; there is an increasing number of people who speak at least one foreign language; several foreign languages were started in secondary schools; the number of academic hours for learning a foreign language is increasing in universities; in some institutions of higher education, foreign languages are considered the second working language.

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