scholarly journals An overview of Teletandem mediation courses for teacher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Micheli Gomes de Souza ◽  
Maisa de Alcântara Zakir ◽  
Daniela Nogueira de Moraes Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Web Conferencing ◽  
Theoretical Concepts

ABSTRACT This paper aims to investigate practices in teacher education in the context of the Teletandem Brasil Project (Vassallo & Telles, 2006). Through web conferencing tools, the project pairs up Brazilian university students learning foreign languages with foreign university students learning Portuguese. The partnerships are supported by mediation sessions conducted by professors and researchers of the Teletandem Project. In this paper, we present some theoretical concepts related to telecollaboration (Belz, 2003; O’Dowd, 2007; 2018), besides providing a detailed description and comparison of four editions of preparatory courses for teletandem mediators, organized by researchers of the project. The results of the analysis may provide alternatives for teacher education in a context of growing transcultural connections.

scholarly journals Do Prospective Teachers Care About PISA Studies? A Pilot Study among University Students in Germany

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Ioannidou ◽  
Despoina Georgiou ◽  
Andreas Obersteiner ◽  
Nilufer Deniz Bas ◽  
Christine Mieslinger
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
International Student ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Very High ◽  
Expected Outcomes

The results of international comparison studies such as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) have initiated intense discussions about educational reforms in Germany. Although in-service and pre-service teachers are an essential part of such reforms, little is known about their attitudes towards PISA studies. The present study aims to fill this gap through the investigation of pre-service teachers’ awareness, interest, perception, and attitudes towards PISA. A questionnaire was used to survey a sample of 107 university students who were participating in a teacher education program. The results reveal that 100% of the participants are aware of PISA. Nearly 69% of the participants think that the impact of PISA is rather high or very high, while 41% of them believe that PISA results are reliable. Accordingly, half of the participants seem to be interested in PISA results for their country. The present study discusses these findings in the light of the expected outcomes as proposed in standards for teacher education.

scholarly journals USE OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES TO CREATE EDUCATIONAL QUIZZES FORMING FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 177-182
Author(s):  
Elena Dubrovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Comparative Experiment ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages

The article considers the phenomenon of gamification in education, studies various electronic resources creating educational quizzes, presents a comparative analysis of their advantages and disadvantages in order to teach foreign languages to University students. To prove the efficiency, the results of a comparative experiment of the use of electronic resources for creating quizzes are given.

scholarly journals Advantages of authentic assessment over traditional assessment while teaching English to university students majoring in non-linguistic subjects

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-293
Author(s):  
Irina Evgenyevna Abramova ◽  
Elena Petrovna Shishmolina ◽  
Anastasia Valeryevna Ananyina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Self Assessment

The paper analyzes existing approaches to assessing the results of teaching foreign languages to the university students majoring in non-linguistic subjects with a special focus on the advantages of authentic assessment. The authors stress the state-level need to develop and implement effective assessment tools for ESL university teaching, and substantiate the effectiveness of authentic assessment for increasing students motivation to learn English. They identify advantages of authentic assessment, including a possibility to track individual students learning progress, to effectively use peer assessment and self-assessment, to focus on students performance indicators, to create a success effect, and to present actual teaching and learning results or personal development achievements in the form of presentations, projects and other tangible accomplishments. The paper describes a unified system of control, assessment and evaluation of ESL teaching and learning results, developed by Foreign Languages for Students of Humanities Department at Petrozavodsk State University (Russia) for modeling a foreign-language environment and enhancing students language socialization. The authors give a detailed account of establishing procedures for the assessment of speaking and writing skills, and analyze a didactic potential of a foreign language portfolio as one of authentic assessment tools. They come to the conclusion that peer assessment, self-assessment and other authentic assessment methods help to shift the focus from teaching to learning and create optimal conditions for student-centered education process.

scholarly journals The Development of Intercultural Competence of Secondary School Pupils and University Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kateryna V. Krotik ◽  
Kateryna V. Krotik
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
University Students ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Educational Profession ◽  
Secondary School Pupils

Some issues regarding how secondary school pupils’ and university students’ (majoring in English, Chinese) intercultural competence, which are to be developed under conditions of the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19, are presented in the article. The authors review the literature on the education standards alongside some native and foreign scholars’ definitions of the pedagogical phenomenon “competence.” The purpose of the study is to analyze the model of competence under focus. We introduce some learning objectives aimed at developing secondary school pupils’ and university students’ intercultural competence. The problem`s relevance is preconditioned by the expanded intercultural and interethnic ties within Ukraine and other countries, which are to be observed when dealing with representatives of different countries and considered when elaborating the competence-based framework for secondary school pupils and university students. The leading suggestions (findings) related to the study have been given: systematic formation of the intercultural competence of secondary school pupils and university students, improvement of the existing curricula, and syllabi’s adaptation of the educational profession-oriented training programs intended future translators and teachers of foreign languages.

scholarly journals Professional adaptation of students majoring in linguistics in the prism of the academic tutorship

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-135
Author(s):  
Nadezhda P. Pomortseva ◽  
Yelena G. Solov'yova ◽  
Tat'yana V. Morozova
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Professional Culture ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Successful Work ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article deals with the issues of professional adaptation of university students through the activities of an academic tutor as an important innovative component of the modernisation of the education system and vocational training in the Russian Federation. The study was based on the unique experience of academic tutors of the Higher School of Foreign Languages and Translation of the Institute of International Relations, Kazan Federal University. This experience allows identifying the key activities of the tutor in terms of professional adaptation of undergraduates majoring in Linguistics. The article defines the concept of "professional adaptation", determines its goals and importance in the professional culture of future linguists in the context of the modernisation of the global educational medium. The authors conclude that the increased requirements for the personality of a graduate give a priority toself-improvement and self-development within professional adaptation where the main role is played by the academic supervisor. The authors formulate pedagogic conditions that contribute to the successful work of the tutor on the professional adaptation of university students, as well as recommendations for improving the tutor’s activities, aimed at involving future specialists in the profession through the formation of their creative, interpersonal, and culturological competences.

scholarly journals Experiments with a Virtual Lab for Industrial Robots Programming

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Abreu ◽  
Manuel Romano Barbosa ◽  
António Mendes Lopes
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Software Package ◽  
Plane Surface ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Robotic Cell ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Center Point ◽  
Virtual Lab

This paper presents the use of a virtual lab for teaching industrial robots programming to university students. The virtual lab, that replicates the existing physical lab, is built using an industrial simulation software package, RobotStudio™. The capabilities of this tool are explored in order to complement the introduction of theoretical concepts with practical programming experience. In addition to illustrate the use of different coordinate systems in a robotic cell, a description of the tool center point calibration and examples of evaluating different moving strategies to cover a plane surface, are also presented.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN TERMS OF DISTANCE LEARNING

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-98
Author(s):  
SVITLANA VYSOTCHENKO ◽  
IRYNA MALYNOVSKA
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Authentic Texts ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Motivating Factor

The article reviews the key peculiarities of teaching foreign languages in the conditions of distance learning. It has been established that the basis of modern paradigms of education consists in scientific and theoretical concepts reflecting the main features of reality. These include personality-oriented learning, individualization and differentiation of educational activity, the formation of motivation to learn, self-development of students and etc. The given conceptual ideas of education are successfully implemented in modern information and educational environment. This provides the organization of the educational process due to information and communication technologies both in person and remotely. Modern paradigms of teaching foreign languages reflect the main features of the modern educational system. The article has considered distance learning as one of the actual areas of modernizing education, as well as the peculiarities of teaching foreign languages ​​in terms of distance learning. It has been summarized that the process of introducing distance learning into the educational system in different countries has its own peculiarities. The specificity of the subject “Foreign language” is correlated with the specifics of distance learning, the main peculiarities of which are network (remote) interaction of all participants of the learning process and a relatively bigger scope of individual work conducted in the form of “Just in time”, interactivity, selection and structuring of educational materials (authentic texts), pedagogical technologies, etc. It has been concluded that distance learning is a motivating factor in learning foreign languages. It contributes to the achievement of personal, metadisciplinary, subject learning outcomes and, ultimately, achieving the aim of learning foreign languages, that is forming foreign language communicative competence

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