scholarly journals Calendar festivals as a mirror of culture in foreign language classes

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-38
Author(s):  
Galina Aleksandrovna Sokolova

The article deals with some ways of forming socio-cultural competence on the example of learning the history of foreign holidays, Christmas and St. Nicholas Day, which are spread in Germany.

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-64
Author(s):  
Jason White

This paper focuses on improvisation (also known as improv), which is one of the dramatic techniques that teachers are using in EFL classrooms today. Many teachers have found that improvisation is valuable for a multitude of reasons, including increasing student motivation and lowering foreign language anxiety, creating a positive learning environment, and generally increasing the level of enjoyment for foreign language students. There are numerous possibilities for teachers who would like to use improv games as a main component, or as a supplement, to the standard curriculum in their foreign language classes. This paper discusses the history of improvisation, and then gives a detailed explanation of ten popular improv games that teachers can use in their classes. It should be noted that these games are discussed as used by the author and may not match exactly with the definitions or parameters of similar games found on improvisation websites or in books about improvisation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 12154
Author(s):  
Tatiana Kopaneva ◽  
Tatiana Pervil

To learn a foreign language effectively and to be fluent in it, anyone should know the main features of the mindset of foreign language native speakers. The article considers the process of forming the cross-cultural competence of students. It is stressed that authentic video materials that have more potential than printed and oral texts should be used as a basis for the formation of cross-cultural competencies in teaching a foreign language. The objective of the study is to substantiate, develop and theoretically test a scientifically reasoned teaching methodology. To reach the objective, we used a pedagogical experiment, pedagogical observation of the educational process, methods of statistical data processing. We have obtained the following results. The analysis of the idea of cross-cultural competence gave us the possibility to explain it as the ability of individual to come productively into a contact with people from other cultures using the language you are learning; during the process of analyzing various models of cross-cultural competence, its main components are determined. The process of forming students’ cross-cultural competence will be efficient if the created exercises are based on the methodology of using authentic video materials.


2021 ◽  
pp. 105-125
Author(s):  
Elena Antonovna Tulusina ◽  
Aida Gumerovna Sadykova ◽  
Zarema Mukhtarovna Zaripova ◽  
Charles Frederic Carlson

The article is devoted to the problem of formation of linguistic and cultural competence during foreign language classes in the middle school. The influence of intercultural interference will be significantly offset by the inclusion of linguoculturological aspects in the content of teaching foreign language, which could serve as a system of unifying values that allow us to understand the boundaries of our own linguistic identity and the identity of a native speaker’s language. The article analyzes the results of a pedagogical experiment aimed at the formation of linguoculturological competences of students in middle school. All teaching methods and techniques were oriented to stimulate the students' creative speech activity, as well as cognitive aspects, which increased the efficiency of teaching the foreign language. The authors confirmed the hypothesis that the process of teaching foreign language will be more successful if the linguoculturological aspect is included in the content of what is taught, comprising the use of linguistic and cultural information as a valuable source of linguocultural material. For that reason, the conditions for successful assimilation of knowledge, the formation and improvement of linguocultural competence in the foreign language lesson in the middle school were created. The results of a pedagogical experiment could be used in a foreign language lesson in middle school.


2020 ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Светлана Владимировна Кольцова

Проанализировано понятие «лингвокультурная компетенция» и ее роль в современной межкультурной коммуникации. Проведен краткий обзор научной литературы по проблеме формирования лингвокультурной компетенции. Перечислены национально-культурные единицы, обращение к которым способствует формированию указанной компетенции. Фразеологические единицы (ФЕ) китайского языка чэнъюй рассмотрены как национально-специфичные лексические единицы, транслирующие информацию об эстетике, этике, культуре и истории китайского народа. Предлагается использование интеллект-карт, благодаря которым информация усваивается интегрированным, радиантным, организованным образом, что существенно облегчает и ускоряет процесс усвоения материала. Приведен пример работы с новыми лексическими единицами в рамках темы «Погода» со студентами 3-го курса (китайский язык как второй иностранный): поэтапный лингвокультурный анализ чэнъюй 万里无云 – wànlǐwúyún – безоблачно. Представлен список из 11 наиболее часто употребительных ФЕ по теме «Погода». Перечислены основные достоинства предложенного метода для формирования лингвокультурной компетенции. Сделан вывод о том, что лингвокультурный анализ ФЕ китайского языка чэнъюй и презентация материала в виде интеллект-карт могут служить способом формирования лингвокультурной компетенции как части коммуникативной компетенции, а также способствовать развитию навыков самостоятельной и групповой исследовательской работы. The article discusses the concept of linguistic and cultural competence and its role in modern intercultural communication. An overview of scientific literature on the problem of the development of linguistic and cultural competence is provided. A list of basic cultural units used for the development of the linguistic and cultural competence is presented as well. It is proposed to use Chinese idioms chengyu in order to develop students’ competence due to the fact that they contain information about the aesthetics, ethics, culture and history of the Chinese. The author also suggests employing mind mapping as it significantly facilitates the learning process due to an integrated, radiant, organized way of presentation. The article provides an example of a step-by-step analysis of a chengyu 万里无云 – wànlǐ wúyún – cloudless conducted in the Chinese language lesson (3rd year students, Chinese as a second foreign language). In addition, the article contains a list of 11 most frequently used idioms on the topic “Weather” which can be further used in Chinese language lessons. The main advantages of the method suggested in the article for the development of linguistic and cultural competence are outlined in the end of the article. It is concluded that the linguistic and cultural analysis of Chinese idioms chengyu along with mind-mapping can serve as a way to develop linguistic and cultural competence, as well as contribute to the development of both individual and collaborative research skills.


2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balčiūnaitienė Asta ◽  
Teresevičienė Margarita

Abstract The article aims to emphasize the role of foreign language teaching in fostering sustainable development competence in higher education. Foreign language classes enable students to analyze actual topics about sustainable development, to discuss problems, to share personal emotions and experiences. English as a foreign language curriculum aims to build students’ basic language communicative skills with the focus on sustainability, communication for the enhancement of sustainable development competence. The present paper aims to analyze the correlation of sustainable development competence between English as a foreign language studies in the system of higher education. The article overviews the importance of the sustainable development competence development on the theoretical level as well as introduces the practices of the importance of sustainable development competence elements in foreign language classes on the empirical level. The research was planned and performed in 5 universities of Lithuania, in which the respondents studying English (average age of participants was 22 years old) expressed their opinions on the sustainable development topics and usefulness of sustainable development competence. The results of the research demonstrate that students are more engaged in topics and materials on sustainable development and it is challenging for pedagogues to constantly update their materials, to apply innovative English as a foreign language teaching strategies related to sustainable development in foreign language classroom. Therefore, the research findings with the embedded elements for sustainable development competence development encourage educators to search for innovative ways of English as a foreign language teaching in higher education.


2020 ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Halyna Kuz’

The article deals with the volume and composition of the phraseological minimum as a necessary and effective element of the formation of linguistic and cultural competence in the process of language learning at intermediate and upper intermediate levels, outlines the quantitative and qualitative structure of the phraseological minimum for learning the Ukrainian language by Slavic students, and offers a list of phraseological units as a component of the described minimum. The material presented in the textbooks of the Ukrainian language as a foreign language was used to form the list of phraseological units, which was minimized according to the criteria of selection of the phraseological minimum for levels B1-B2.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(80)) ◽  
pp. 28-31
Author(s):  
A. Sehpeyan

With the advent of modern Internet technologies, the ways of teaching Russian as a foreign language are changing rapidly. Social networks become part of the educational process and serve as a tool for creating new creative tasks aimed at developing cross-cultural competence. Modern technologies help to prepare students to communicate with representatives of other cultures, create situations that are close to those that exist in the natural cultural environment. This article discusses ways to use social networks to develop cross-cultural competence.


Author(s):  
Л.Н. Крячко

Постановка задачи. Изучение предмета «Иностранный язык» в техническом университете предполагает усвоение обучающимися терминологической лексики в соответствии с выбранной специальностью. Опыт преподавания показывает, что студенты испытывают трудности, связанные с запоминанием терминологических единиц и употреблением их в речи. Использование на занятиях по иностранному языку приема обучения терминологической лексике посредством опоры на внутреннюю форму данных лексических единиц позволяет оптимизировать процесс усвоения обучающимися специальных терминов. Результаты. Проведенное исследование дает основание утверждать, что анализ внутренней формы образованных семантическим способом англоязычных терминов специальности «Автомобильные дороги» позволяет выявить деривационно-ассоциативную связь терминологических единиц с лексикой общенационального языка, послужившей основой для вторичной номинации. Данные лексические единицы в большинстве случаев представляют собой хорошо знакомые студентам слова, обозначающие части тела человека и объекты, находящиеся в его близком окружении : одежду, посуду, инструменты, явления природы, представителей животного мира и т.д. Выводы. Ознакомление студентов дорожно-строительной специальности с внутренней формой изучаемых англоязычных терминов, выявление ассоциативных связей терминологических единиц со знакомыми студентам и широкоупотребительными словами общенационального языка, а также выполнение в аудитории специально разработанных тренировочных упражнений помогают снять трудности усвоения обучающимися терминологической лексики и облегчают ее запоминание. Statement of the problem. The study of the “Foreign Language” subject at a technical university involves students’ learning the terminology in accordance with the chosen specialty. The teaching practice shows that students experience the difficulties associated with memorising terminological units and using them in the speech. Applying the method of teaching the terminology based on the internal form of these lexical units at foreign language classes makes it possible to optimise the process of learning special terms by students. Results. The research that has been carried out gives reason to argue that the analysis of the internal form of the English “Automobile roads” specialty terms created in the semantic way makes it possible to reveal the derivational and associative relations of the terminological units with the national language words which served as the basis for the secondary nomination. In most cases, these lexical units are the words that are well known by the students and indicate the parts of man’s body and the objects that are present in man’s immediate environment: clothing, dishes, tools, phenomena of the nature, representatives of the animal world, etc. Conclusion. Introducing the internal form of the studied English terms to the road construction specialty students, identifying the associative relations of the terminological units with the well known to the students and widely used words of the national language, fulfilling the specially developed training exercises in the classroom help the students to overcome the difficulties of learning the terminology and to facilitate its memorization.


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