THE ROLE OF SET PHRASES IN THE PROCESS OF MASTER’S DEGREE (PHILOLOGY) STUDENTS FOREIGN TEXTS COMPREHENSION (EBGLISH AND CHINESE)

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (28) ◽  
pp. 196-209
Author(s):  
Tatyana Yablonskaya
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
New Words ◽  
The Past ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
Chinese And English ◽  
English Culture

The role of set phrases in the process of Master’s degree (Philology) students foreign texts comprehension (English and Chinese) is determined in the article. The types of phraseological units and their distinctive features in both languages are dealt with. It is proved that phraseological system of the English and the Chinese languages is being developed and also motivates the Master’s degree (Philology) students to understand national and cultural specificities of the countries whose languages are studied and increases their perception. The article proves that both English and Chinese are considered to be one of the richest languages in the world. One can assert it owing to a great variety of phraseological units and phraseological turns. Idioms take a huge layer in their structure. All events, taking place both in Great Britain and China, often reflect social, political, sport, cultural, astrological and everyday life of these countries. Many words become obsolete but a lot of them are replaced by new ones. It happens because a lot of new words are bright, alive and witty. They arouse a genuine interest in the Masters’ degree (Philology) students’ minds. The students begin to learn them with pleasure and to penetrate in their essence. Their speech becomes emotional, colourful, expressive and figurative. The application of idioms significantly saves time and enhances the perception of a foreign language. So, one can say with certainty that both languages phraseological system will develop and acquire new shapes. As for the students they will also have a wonderful opportunity of enriching their inner world. It also concerns each individual resident of the Foggy Albion and China. A great exuberance of phraseological stock is peculiar to Chinese and English. Chinese phraseological units are people’s mirror. They are also the legacy of the past. Such Chinese realities as dragon, jasper, jade and the well-known heroes are captured in them. Phraseological units in English are mostly traditional. They acquired so-called typical English flavor, which reflects the features of English culture. They are all connected with the traditions, customs and beliefs of the English people, as well as with legends and historical facts. That’s why it’s expedient to pay attention to the issue, connected with set phrases, idioms, proverbs and sayings.

scholarly journals Teaching Scholarly Communication Skills to Master Students in Non-linguistic Universities

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
А.В. Мамедова
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Continual Improvement ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Communications Skills ◽  
Master’S Degree

В статье обращено особое внимание на роль научного общения в учебном процессе магистратуры. Актуальность темы развития обучения научному общению, при котором формируются как универсальные, так и профессиональные компетенции, закреплена нормативными документами. В статье показано, что средством развития и формирования компетенций, необходимых для овладения научным общением, выступает иностранный язык. Описана практическая работа на занятиях по иностранному языку в неязыковой магистратуре. Комплекс заданий и упражнений, разработанный автором, способствует развитию у обучающихся умений применять современные коммуникативные технологии на иностранном языке для академического профессионального и межкультурного взаимодействия, целью которого является овладение лингвистической, дискурсивной, социолингвистической компетенциями, стратегией и тактикой общения, взаимодействия на иностранном языке, необходимыми для иноязычного общения в профессиональной и научной сферах. Представлен опыт развития навыков перевода, реферирования и аннотирования профессионально ориентированных текстов, написания научных статей, работы над проектами магистерских диссертаций, презентаций научных текстов в процессе преподавания английского языка магистрантам института естественных наук. Научное общение на занятиях иностранного языка в магистратуре представлено как форма и условие развития творческого потенциала студентов. The article centers on the role of scholarly communication in the process of receiving a Master’s degree. The relevance of the issue of developing scholarly communications skills, universal and professional competencies is substantiated in normative documents. The article maintains that a foreign language is a means of developing scholarly communication competences. The article describes practical activities used to teach foreign language to graduate students in non-linguistic universities. The complex of tasks and exercises elaborated by the author of the article ensures continual improvement of students’ foreign-language skills required for efficient scholarly communication. The course is aimed at the formation of linguistic, discursive, and socio-linguistic competences, at the development of intercultural communication strategies that can be used in professional and academic spheres. The article describes an experience of teaching students working towards a master’s degree in natural science to translate, summarize, and annotate professionally-oriented texts, write scholarly and scientific articles, master’s theses, create scholarly and scientific presentations. Scholarly communication in foreign language classroom is presented as a tool and a prerequisite for the development of students’ creative potential.

scholarly journals Student perspective on plagiarism

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Torunn Skofsrud Boger ◽  
Anne-Lise Eng
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Private College ◽  
Student Perspective ◽  
The Us ◽  
Master’S Degree

Autumn 2008, four employees at Østfold University College (HiØ), one with a Master's Degree in Sosiology, one with a Master's Degree in Nursing and two librarians, interviewed 33 Norwegian College students about the subjects cheating and plagiarism. This is the first such survey conducted in Norway. There are plenty of comparable reseach from countries such as the US, Great Britain, Canada and even Sweden, but the Norwegian focus on these issues has been missing until a few years ago. We started working with this subject about two years ago, about the same time as some incidents of cheating at a private College and a University Faculty got national interest, and HiØ started to review some of the effects of the reform Kvalitetsreformen. Our survey is part of this project named "Kvalitetsreformens vurderingsformer i høgskolen" (http://www.hiof.no/index.php?ID=14004=nor). Some of the topics treated in our survey are collaboration and collusion, consequenses of cheating, information given to students about plagiarism and the role of the libraries. We find that students, staff and teachers care about these subjects, but perhaps in slightly different ways and with different perspectives. Our aim is to let the students speak, and try to listen and understand, and hopefully find some ideas or starting points to start work with. Many colleges and universities are starting working with plans to deal with these issues, and we believe it is important to include the student perspective in this work. We are planning to release our research in a report in the HiØ's Report Series spring 2010.

Modernization of the elective course content of the Master’s Degree programme for linguists “Teaching Methods in the Format of International Exams”

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Anna V. Gavrilova ◽  
Nina V. Popova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
English Language ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Master's Degree Students ◽  
Elective Course ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
Integrated Tasks

We discuss the existing programme of the elective discipline “Teaching Methods in the Format of International Exams” for Master’s Degree linguist student of pedagogical profile, which presents familiarization of students to the formats of ten international exams. In the process of modernizing the program, it was decided to focus only on the formats of tasks for the TOEFL, IELTS and CAE exams, which complement the content of the main course for Master’s Degree students of pedagogical profile “Theory and Methods of Foreign Languages Teaching” in the lin-guodidactic aspect. The selected tasks are appropriate for introducing to the students of non-linguistic, in particular, technical, universities in the foreign language training program. Integrated tasks in the TOEFL format that implement the principle of interconnected teaching of reading, lis-tening, and speaking/writing are developed similarly by the Master’s Degree linguist students for English language textbooks for students of non-linguistic universities. A detailed analysis of the methods for working with integrated tasks created by the Master’s Degree students is presented. Visual and informational materials from the “writing” section of the academic version of the IELTS exam are the implementation of the methodic principle of professional orientation of teaching. The introduction of graph, bar chart, diagram or table descriptions in foreign language teaching has a high degree of relevance for students of non-linguistic university, especially those of a technical specialization. We show the distribution of lexical and grammatical aspects and developed skills of foreign language learners in accordance with the types of visual and informational materials. The development of universal learning activities (ULA) of students in the process of teaching the description of visual and informational materials is justified. Listening comprehension in the format of the CAE international exam can be used as an element of students preparation for conference activities. Modernization of the elective course programme provides better quality of training for Master’s Degree linguist students aimed at foreign language teaching in a non-linguistic university.

scholarly journals The Role of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition from the Perspective of Chinese Acquiring English Reflexives

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. p284
Author(s):  
Jing Song
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Universal Grammar ◽  
The Past ◽  
Chinese Learners ◽  
Chinese And English

In China, the second language learning has always played an important role in primary and higher education. The issue of how children acquire the second language has experienced a boom in China over the past decade as the proficiency of a person’s English level mainly depends on its acquisition in primary stage. The main focus of this paper is to examine the role of UG in the second language acquisition and to what extent it plays in the process. To illustrate this, the four access hypotheses were given firstly. In addition, the role of UG from the aspect of Chinese learners’ acquiring the English reflexives was discussed. In this section, the importance of analyzing the reflexives and the different features of them in Chinese and English were exhibited.

scholarly journals The journey of Claire in the works of Gaito Gazdanov: the analysis of the female image of Claire in the novels “An Evening with Claire”, “Hannah”, and “The Fate of Salome”

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 162-170
Author(s):  
Ziwei Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Character Type ◽  
Female Image ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Inner World ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Gradual Transformation

  This article is dedicated to the analysis of the female image of Claire and its variant in the works of Gaito Gazdanov. This character type in the works of G. Gazdanov often resembles the past in the present, i.e. an important part of the “lost world” for the protagonist. However, deliberate examination allows following the gradual transformation of the authors attitude towards the character of Claire throughout his creative path. In the novel “Ab Evening with Clair”, the author adheres to priority of that past world over the present, while in the novel of his later period “The Fate of Salome”, the narrator tends to release from the shadow of the past. The underlying cause for such change lies in the transition of the writer from the romantic theurgical worldview towards phenomenal. In the later period, Gazdanov reconsidered the real world and justified the earthly existence due to the fact that submerging into the own inner world can entail loneliness and dissolution “Self” in one’s mind. The goal of this research consists in tracing the transformation of the role of Claire in the works of Gaito Gazdanov, as well as in description of different types of relations between the protatonist and the heroine in order to prove the evolution of the writer's reasoning on the problem of “two-worldness”. The relevance of this article consists in explication of the type of Claire in Gazdanov’s artistic system of “two-worldness” as a literary technique, as well as from the new perspective of studying the evolution the writer’s worldview.  

scholarly journals Ways and Means of Overcoming Lexical and Grammatical Difficulties in Passing the Test on RFL (Level B2)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-189
Author(s):  
Kholisakhon E. Ismailova ◽  
Olga V. Bondareva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
Communicative Abilities

The article deals with the preparation of foreign students for RFL level B2 in order to form their communicative abilities in all spheres of communication. Attention to this issue is justified by the need to increase the productivity of studying Russian as a foreign language for bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and even for admission to graduate school in the Humanities, engineering and natural sciences.

Authentic Assessment

2017 ◽  
pp. 373-391
Author(s):  
Simona Iftimescu ◽  
Romiță Iucu ◽  
Elena Marin ◽  
Mihaela Monica Stîngu
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
The Bologna Process ◽  
Degree Level

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze and discuss the concept of authentic assessment at Master's degree level. Firstly, this chapter attempts to provide a better understanding of the Master's program within the context of the Bologna system by providing a short historical perspective on the evolution of the Bologna process, as well as trying to identify the true beneficiaries. The chapter also addresses some of the challenges of the assessment process with two main themes: types and aim of the assessment process. Furthermore, the authors focus on the role of the authentic assessment, at a Master's degree level – as reflected by students' perception and correlated with its intended purpose. Drawing on the findings, the authors attempt to shape a description of what authentic assessment is and what it should be at Master's degree level.

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