scholarly journals ON THE PROBLEM OF ADJUSTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING PROCESS AT UNIVERSITIES TO THE NEEDS OF ETHNIC MINORITIES OF UKRAINE UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Author(s):  
Nataliya Osadcha

The research focuses on substantiating the necessity of adjusting the process of teaching and learning a foreign language at universities to the needs of ethnic minorities under the conditions of online training, introduced due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We have studied a new role of a foreign language university teacher working with ethnic minority students, which is relevant for Transcarpathia, in particular, as a multiethnic region of Ukraine. In our research, we have used the method of analogical reasoning, communicative, social and psychological one, methods of observation, content analysis, personality study, sociometry, role behaviour study etc. The materials studied in the course of our research allow us to draw the following conclusions. We believe that, under the present conditions of providing educational services online, only the search for new forms and methods of teaching as well as new lesson content will contribute to the implementation of an effective personality-oriented approach in a foreign language learning process. On the one hand, a modern teacher must not only have excellent pedagogical skills, but also be familiar with the latest online teaching technologies, it is impossible to imagine a full-fledged educational process without. Accordingly, the syllabi need to be updated, taking into account the requirements of the time and the experience gained. On the other hand, students can form their own electronic databases for learning and improving their foreign language skills, in particular, use literature in their native languages, which might become an impetus and a motivation for ethnic minority students to learn foreign languages with greater enthusiasm.

Author(s):  
Tatyana Klets ◽  
Elena Nikiforova ◽  
Nadezhda Presnyakova ◽  
Maria Starovoitova

The article focuses on the use of digital technologies in the foreign language learning process and the formation of students’ communicative culture via online interaction. The issue discussed in this paper is very urgent because nowadays digital technologies are viewed as a comprehensive means of teaching a foreign language in a higher educational institution. General cultural competency and communicative culture, particularly, are considered as an integrative quality of a specialist concerning his potential for self-realization in his future career. In this regard, the actual problem is the methodically correct organisation of the educational process for students’ cultural development on the basis of digital technologies. The research is aimed at the theoretical substantiation of pedagogical effectiveness of the organization of online training in foreign language communication as a condition for the formation of the communicative culture of undergraduate students as well as the generalization of the results of experimental training. To verify the productivity of digital resources in foreign language training and cultural development of university students the authors conducted a pedagogical experiment using theoretical and empirical methods of scientific research. The results of the experiment proved the effectiveness of online teaching in mastering communicative culture components.


Author(s):  
Е.А. Николаева ◽  
Ю.Ю. Котляренко

В настоящее время исследование процесса геймификации обучения концентрируется на трех аспектах: систематизация и развитие принципов моделирования процесса игрового пространства, позволяющих достичь высокого уровня вовлеченности обучаемых в процесс получения знаний; оценка уровня эффективности вариантов технического обеспечения процесса геймификации обучения; разработка методики и методологии оценки эффективности процесса геймификации. Понимание важности проблем управления мотивацией студентов, обучающихся иностранному языку, а также задач по обеспечению высокого уровня вовлеченности в процесс обучения, делает вопросы, связанные с геймификацией курсов иностранного языка в неязыковых вузах, актуальными и перспективными для изучения. Однако, большая часть исследований в этой области ограничивает свою предметную область вопросами, связанными с возможностью интеграции дидактических задач с игровыми технологиями. В связи с этим перспективы геймификации курса иностранного языка детерминированы рамками структурной геймификации, то есть частичным внедрением игровых практик в процесс обучения иностранному языку. В такой ситуации положительные эффекты геймификации процесса обучения иностранному языку могут носить временный и локальный характер, а оценка его эффективности продемонстрирует низкий потенциал в решении задач по формированию коммуникативных компетенций. В статье обосновывается необходимость исследования феномена содержательной геймификации, относительно которой, как правило, и описываются все положительные эффекты организации процесса обучения (самостоятельность, автономность, оптимальный уровень имитации профессиональной деятельности и т.д.). Авторы полагают, что содержательная геймификация процесса обучения должна быть детерминирована не только принципами и алгоритмами педагогического дизайна (корреляцией дидактических задач обучения с техниками/технологиями обучения в зависимости от их дидактических функций и в соответствии с формируемыми компетенциями обучающихся). Оценивая важность вопросов, связанных с проблемами формирования полилингвальной личности, особенностями ее существования в поликультурной профессиональной среде, а также спецификой профессиональных коммуникаций в сети Интернет, авторы обосновывают необходимость разработки принципов содержательной геймификации процесса обучения иностранному языку, основанных на закономерностях построения электронного профессионального дискурса. Currently, the study of the process of learning gamification focuses on three aspects: systematization and development of the principles of modeling the process of playing space, allowing to achieve a high level of involvement of trainees in the process of obtaining knowledge; assessment of the level of efficiency of technical support options of the training gamification process; development of a methodology and methodology for assessing the effectiveness of the gamification process. Understanding the importance of managing the motivation of students who study a foreign language, as well as the tasks of ensuring a high level of involvement in the learning process, makes the issues related to the gamification of foreign language courses in non-language universities relevant and promising for study. However, most research in this area limits subject area to issues related to the possibility of integrating didactic tasks with gaming technologies. As a result, the prospects for gamification of a foreign language course are determined by the framework of structural gamification, that is, the partial introduction of game practices in the process of teaching a foreign language. In such a situation, the positive effects of gamification of the process of teaching a foreign language may be temporary and local, and an assessment of its effectiveness will demonstrate low potential in solving the problems of forming communicative competencies. The article justifies the need to study the phenomenon of meaningful gamification, which, as a rule, describes all the positive effects of organizing the training process (independence, autonomy, the optimal level of imitation of professional activity, etc.). The authors believe that the meaningful gamification of the learning process should be determined not only by the principles and algorithms of pedagogical design (correlation of didactic learning tasks with teaching techniques/technologies depending on their didactic functions and in accordance with the students’ formed competencies). Assessing the importance of issues related to the problems of the formation of a polylingual personality, the peculiarities of its existence in a multicultural professional environment, as well as the specifics of professional communications on the Internet, the authors substantiate the need to develop principles of meaningful gamification of the process of teaching a foreign language, based on the laws of setting up an electronic professional discourse.


Author(s):  
Yurii Zablotskyi

The article analyzes the implementation of modern internet tools into the foreign language learning process during remote studying process. The paper presents the influence of modern digital technologies on the educational process and its participants concluding the inevitable necessity of using digital tools for effective organization of online study. Developed in the second half of the 20th century, CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) systems have been successfully used in the language learning environment. Providing teachers and learners with some obvious benefits like better personalization, higher motivation and automation, early CALLs demanded a lot of resources and were quite complicated in developing, installing and using. With the technological progress and emerging of the Internet, these systems evolved into modern digital user-friendly tools turning conventional learning process into entertainment environment. Modern web based learning systems has provided the unlimited possibilities for learners and teachers alike. Language learners can design their own studying process by choosing a school, a place, time, and pace for their study. New technologies have benefited teachers greatly providing them with effective tools for creating, storing and delivering their studying materials. The benefits and drawbacks of the modern internet-tools for developing different language skills as well as for summative and formative assessment has been analyzed in the paper.


Author(s):  
I. Shestopalova ◽  
K. Potapenko

The article is devoted to the problem of socialization of an individual in the process of foreign language learning, which is a part of multicultural education and is considered as an important tool for a person's adaptation in a multicultural society. The leading idea of the article is the assertion that foreign language as a discipline has a huge socializing potential, as in the process of a foreign language learning, not only the active development of natural resources, abilities, initiative, independence, take place, but also, assimilation of generally accepted in a society socio- cultural rules and moral norms, which plays a crucial role in the process of socialization is activated. Since the main goal of the educational process in foreign languages is the formation of the very communicative skills, its contribution to the process of socialization of a man is indisputable. In this sense, the following characteristics of the learning process in a foreign language are important: the focus on communication, respect for the identity and culture of other peoples, the focus on social activities, the acquisition of social experience in solving life and social problems, and the creation of its own system of life priorities. The communicative method of teaching foreign languages is based on the fact that the learning process is a model of communication. The learning process in foreign languages is based on the linguistic partnership, creative collaboration, constant motivation of communication, based on a combination of such interconnected factors as activity, creativity, autonomy, individualization, which contribute to the intensification of cognitive and educational processes. That is, organization of training in the form of communication is the main methodological task of a modern teacher of foreign languages. It is this specificity of the discipline "foreign language" that is capable of effective implementing educational socialization, helping to complete the formation of the students' ability to communicate, co- exist and cooperate in the professional activities of people of different ethnic groups, the formation of a rich experience of social and cultural communication, which is a solid base for the involvement of learners to the global values of civilization.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-215
Author(s):  
Flavia Kaba

Abstract Due to the rapid developments in educational technology, today’s professors are in search of exploring innovative techniques in order to promote involvement of students in the learning process in general and in the foreign language learning process in particular. This is why today’s students are seen as digital-natives and being motivated for the learning process is very difficult if the modern technology they are familiar with is not utilized effectively in the classroom. When it comes to the assessment part of this process, the situation may become worse, as most of the students feel unwilling due to anxiety problems in general and foreign language anxiety in particular. This study presents an innovative way of assessing students’ skills that they gain during foreign language learning process introducing Edmodo, which is an educational social network that provides a secure learning platform for students and educators. This study is a descriptive one, based on the analyses, surveys, and opinions of different researchers that have implemented this platform in their teaching process. The main objective is to introduce the implementation of various assessment applications through Edmodo.


2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie Gelderblom ◽  
Jaap de Koning ◽  
Lyda den Hartog

Ethnic minorities and the choice for technical directions in education: an unutilised potential Ethnic minorities and the choice for technical directions in education: an unutilised potential There are a lot of studies which focus on the choice of technical directions within vocational education. But in these studies, little attention is given to the specific position of ethnic minorities. To what extent is their choice behaviour different? Statistical data show that ethnic minorities are underrepresented in technical directions in vocational education. A specific survey on backgrounds for this phenomenon shows that there is a relatively large group of ethnic minority students who do not choose for a technical direction, in spite of the fact that they have a talent in this direction and are interested in technology. This result holds in a multivariate analysis in which also several other factors are taken into account. We also investigate to what extent those with a technical direction in vocational education want to work in a technical profession and/or the manufacturing industry afterwards. Finally, a number of recommendations are given how to reach higher shares of ethnic minority students choosing technical directions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1633-1639
Author(s):  
Zlatina Zheleva ◽  
Slavka Hristozova ◽  
Rumyana Stoyanova

Foreign language teaching to medical students depends on solving various institutional problems. In this sense, its effectiveness is a variable which influences the level of education at the university. Effectiveness of academic education depends on two groups of conditions- one is the purely material aspect- the place and conditions in which education takes place, the financial resources and the second one includes the psychoemotional aspect of training- the so-called didactic costs which include the physical and emotional efforts invested in the process of training both on the side of the lecturer and student. One of the ways to improve effectiveness is by restricting didactic costs- the less the psychoemotional tension and anxiety- the better results would a student achieve. Giving the student the opportunity to “manage his/her own manner of learning” and placing the student in the centre of the educational process would inevitably lead to increasing student motivation.Another mechanism to achieve effectiveness and quality of education is through activating the inner motivation of students to learn a foreign language. The latter is influenced by factors such as concentration, attention, a feeling of complete participation in the process of training, lack of fear of failure, assuming responsibility for the achieved results etc. A new aspect of contemporary learning success is differentiation in education, introduction of the individual, personal style of learning of each student. An appropriate instrument or tool in achieving motivation is for the learning process to follow and conform to the different learning styles of students. The individual learning style implies the individual preferences in perceiving and memorizing information. The aim of the present paper is to identify these styles in students from the Medical University – Plovdiv and thus to identify their satisfaction with foreign language learning. The survey was conducted in 2017 among 140 students from 16 countries. A written questionnaire and a psychological test were used to gather the data. Determinants for satisfaction were identifies as: the material setting and technological equipment, personal characteristics of the teacher and the microclimate in the student group. An adapted LSI (Learning Style Inventory) specifically adapted for Bulgaria which includes four types of approaches to the learning process- specific experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation was used. The results are distributed according to gender, specialty, year of studies and Kolb’s learning styles- divergent, assimilative, convergent and accommodative. The leading learning style according to our survey proves to be the convergent on with women having higher values (32,14%) than men (24,28%), next comes the assimilative learning style with men having higher value (17,14%) as opposed to women (14,28%). The accommodative is next – 5% of women and 3.57% men prefer this learning style and the least proffered one is the divergent one – 3,57% of women and 2,88% of men prefer it.


Neofilolog ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 143-156
Author(s):  
Paweł Sobkowiak

This paper aims to explore the rationale of classroom negotiation - understood as a discussion between all participants in the teaching/learning process to decide on the organization of foreign language learning and teaching. It outlines relevant issues connected with the process syllabus and the benefits that can be expected from involving students in classroom decision making. The article presents results of research conducted in Polish schools among both students and teachers at different levels of education in order to see to what extent the foreign language syllabus is negotiated there.


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