ONLINE RESOURCES FOR LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Internetnauka ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 399-411
Author(s):  
Sergey Vitalevich Avakov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Online Resources

Online Informal Language Learning Among Foreign Language Teachers

2020 ◽  
pp. 315-332
Author(s):  
Violeta Jurkovič ◽  
Vita Kilar ◽  
Nives Lenassi ◽  
Darja Mertelj
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Online Behaviour ◽  
Insight Into

Today's online world provides foreign language users and learners with a multitude of opportunities to engage in a variety of language activities. A social group that can derive major benefits from the availability of online resources in different languages is foreign language teachers. Based on an ‘emic' approach, this study involves case studies of three experienced foreign language teachers that used diaries over a period of eight weeks to report on every instance of online use of their predominant foreign language and English. Semi-structured interviews were used to obtain insight into online behaviour that was not specifically related to the eight-week period of diary-keeping. The results indicate that the online uses of the three participants, although they belong to the same social and age groups, display great variety in terms of online activities and the predominant language used to perform these activities.

Extracting multiword expressions from texts with the aid of online resources

2019 ◽  
Vol 171 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thuy Bui ◽  
Frank Boers ◽  
Averil Coxhead
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Learning Gains ◽  
Classroom Intervention ◽  
Multiword Expressions ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Experimental Group

Abstract This article reports on a classroom intervention where L2 learners were prompted to look for multiword expressions in texts. The participants were two intact classes of Vietnamese learners of English as a foreign language. Over a period of eight weeks, the experimental group (n = 26) looked for expressions in texts, while the comparison group (n = 28) used the same texts for content-related activities. In pairs, students in the experimental group consulted online dictionaries and an online corpus to help them determine which word strings in the texts were common expressions. The students’ worksheets and audio-recorded interactions suggest they were by and large successful at this, but also reveal the students found it hard to identify the boundaries of expressions and occasionally failed to find the dictionary (sub-)entries that matched them. The two groups’ ability to recall the expressions was gauged by comparing their scores on a pre-test and a post-test administered one week after the last class and again five months later. The learning gains were greater in the experimental group, although the difference fell short of significance in the delayed post-test. Students in the experimental group whose proficiency in English was relatively high tended to benefit the most.

scholarly journals DISTANCE LEARNING: HISTORICAL AND PRAGMATIC ASPECTS (FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH FOREIGN STUDENTS AT THE PRE-UNIVERSITY STAGE OF TRAINING)

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-112
Author(s):  
I.M. Kolyshkina ◽  
N.P. Kremneva ◽  
A.V. Rodionova
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Online Format ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

The article is devoted to the history of distance learning abroad and in Russia, as well as to the practical description of the process of organizing the study of Russian as a foreign language in the remote form of classes. The authors consider various options for organizing the educational process in an online format, identify the main difficulties that arise in the process of distance learning, and show solutions using various online resources: the social network Vkontakte, the Skype application, and Google tools. Special attention is paid to the positive and negative aspects associated with the use of this form of training when organizing work with foreign students at the pre-University stage of training.

scholarly journals Developing College EFL Writers’ Critical Thinking Skills Through Online Resources: A Case Study

SAGE Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401882038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Writing Classroom ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Student Writers

This study reports on how the supplementation of online resources, informed by systemic functional linguistics (SFL), impacted English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) student writers’ development of critical thinking skills. Through qualitative analyses of student-teacher interactions, interviews with students, and students’ written documents, the case study shows that through 1 semester of intensive exposure to SFL-based online resources in a college Chinese EFL writing classroom, EFL writers were able to develop critical thinking skills in regard to the construction of effective academic writing, although it was a process of encountering and overcoming challenges. Through teacher mediation and their own efforts, they could adjust to the online resources-based classroom, exemplified by their utilization of SFL-related categories offered through online resources to analyze and evaluate the interrelationship between language features and the content manifested in valued texts, and regulate the content of their own academic writing.

scholarly journals Online resources in teaching Russian as a foreign language: expectations vs reality

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Victoria V. Vyazovskaya ◽  
Tatiana A. Danilevskaya ◽  
Margarita E. Trubchaninova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Russian Universities

The paper discusses using online resources in modern teaching Russian as a foreign language (henceforth - RFL). A lot of resources for teaching and learning Russian are uploaded online daily. However, the format of their integration into educational process has not been analyzed yet. The acuteness of the present study stems from the necessity to define effective educational online resources for teaching RFL. The study draws upon the data of free-access online resources developed for A0-B1 level students in leading Russian universities. The aim of the study is to analyse online RFL resources, including educational software, applications and sites, their structure and their chances to be integrated into teaching process. The research has resulted in estimating educational and functional value of online teaching resources for students who study Russian in order to enter Russian universities. The paper presents conclusions concerning practical application of online resources in RFL teaching practice in blended education of foreign students in the higher educational establishments. The theoretical significance of the research lies in the fact that the analysis of fundamental scientific articles and electronic materials allows us to expand and deepen our knowledge about the place of e-teaching aids in the sphere of teaching foreign languages and RFL, as well as to justify the need to include electronic teaching materials in order to intensify the learning process. The results of the research can be implemented in blended forms of learning, distance learning, as well as in organizing students' independent learning in the university environment.

scholarly journals Teaching a foreign language using authentic web resources at the middle stage

KANT ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 308-311
Author(s):  
Natalia Anatolievna Oshchepkova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Middle Stage ◽  
Web Resources

The availability of modern web resources has a significant impact on the effectiveness of education, since it allows the teacher to use and implement new teaching methods that provide several advantages in organizing the educational process. The article demonstrates the possibilities of online resources when teaching foreign language.

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