PECULIARITIES OF DEVELOPING “SOFT” SKILLS AT FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES FOR CADETS AND MASTERS OF STATE FIRE ACADEMY OF EMERCOM OF RUSSIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
M. Korosteleva ◽  
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A. Muzychenko ◽  
E. Skurko ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Team Leadership ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Language Classes

Universal competencies (“soft” skills), which must be developed in a modern specialist along with the professional ones are analyzed in the article. The importance and relevance of developing such skills as communication skills, the ability to work in a team, leadership qualities and others are justified. Practical examples of developing such skills in foreign language classes are presented.

Relevance of Soft Skills in Career Success

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Mitashree Tripathy
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Work Atmosphere

In this fast transforming business economy caused by globalization, it has become incredibly important that employees keep on upgrading their hard skills and polish their soft skills if they aspire for a career that not only pays them well but also promises better opportunities in career development. Though the importance of soft skills is recognised in everyday life, in maintaining interpersonal relationships, in buildings strategies for success, its implications are mainly found in organisations and workplaces. Soft skills, however, play a significant role in building a career. Today to succeed and survive in the competitive workplace employees are expected to change their attitude, attention, and commitment to work. Besides, they are also expected to develop other abilities like effective communication skills, teamwork, leadership qualities, stress management, emotional intelligence etc. Competition is progressively increasing across workplaces worldwide. The need to be fit, flexible and existing is highly intrinsic. Soft skills thus help deal with challenges as they offer essential factors to influence the success of the employees and the organisations. This paper focuses on discussing the relevance of soft skills in career success, job satisfaction, creating a better work atmosphere and bringing about productivity at the workplace.

Teacher and Student Freedom and Responsibility when Working in Small Groups

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 569-574
Author(s):  
Rozalina Dimitrova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Role Changes ◽  
Modern School ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Personal Qualities

In modern school, when learning a foreign language, an approach which is used more and more often is students work in small groups. If we estimate the efforts which students put in working in a group in order to achieve a common result, then all the students’ motivation is considerably higher. Working in small groups during Russian language classes creates a very good opportunity for communication, enables the development of students’ speaking ability which is very important in learning foreign language. Working in small groups develops students’ communication skills, creates their personal qualities, helps them realize their social role in society. The teacher’s role changes, too. The teacher only directs the work, partly helps, corrects and supports the creative searching.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF STUDENTS ‘ LEADERSHIP SKILLS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES AT A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1(24)) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Valerii I. Uvarov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Global Game ◽  
World Community ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
The World ◽  
Professional Fields ◽  
Creative Group

The article makes an attempt to justify the need for the formation of leadership qualities in students of various fields of training within a non-linguistic university. The author divides the factors contributing to the solution of this problem into two categories: the personal and professional qualities of the teacher, as well as the actual set of educational activities. The author pays special attention to the usefulness of creative group types of students’ activities and the use of global game technology. In conclusion, the author expresses the hope that future generations of specialists in various professional fields, being taught to be leaders, will significantly improve the world community.

scholarly journals Language as Students’ Artistic Value: Linguodidactic Dimension

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 248-261
Author(s):  
Iryna Guslenko ◽  
Еvgeniya Myropolska ◽  
Natalia Myropolska
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The One ◽  
Artistic Values

The present paper focuses on the problem of values and representation of language as an artistic value. The main objectives of the research are to specify the role of artistic values for people, represent the methodology for the integration of arts into foreign language classes, evaluate its results. The research questions of the study aimed to investigate how the experimental course contributed to students’ attitude towards artistic values, the development of their language and communication skills. The outlined methodology of arts integration into foreign language classes involves teaching art terms, phraseological units about art, popular-quotations, and teaching through literary translation and dialogue of cultures. The one-term experimental integrated course of English and art classes was implemented by two secondary schools in Kyiv (Ukraine). The evaluation of the results was done with the method of qualitative research. The findings confirmed that language as an artistic value is a powerful instrument for students’ personal, artistic, and cognitive development.

scholarly journals Language as Students’ Artistic Value: Linguodidactic Dimension

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna Guslenko ◽  
Еvgeniya Myropolska ◽  
Natalia Myropolska
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The One ◽  
Artistic Values

The present paper focuses on the problem of values and representation of language as an artistic value. The main objectives of the research are to specify the role of artistic values for people, represent the methodology for the integration of arts into foreign language classes, evaluate its results. The research questions of the study aimed to investigate how the experimental course contributed to students’ attitude towards artistic values, the development of their language and communication skills. The outlined methodology of arts integration into foreign language classes involves teaching art terms, phraseological units about art, popular-quotations, and teaching through literary translation and dialogue of cultures. The one-term experimental integrated course of English and art classes was implemented by two secondary schools in Kyiv (Ukraine). The evaluation of the results was done with the method of qualitative research. The findings confirmed that language as an artistic value is a powerful instrument for students’ personal, artistic, and cognitive development.

scholarly journals USE OF TED TALKS MEDIA CONTENT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SOFT SKILLS AT FOREIGN LANGUAGES CLASSES IN A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (74) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
S. Feopentova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Ted Talks

The article deals with the organization of the process of teaching foreign languages in a non-linguistic university in order to develop soft skills; a terminological analysis of the concept of "soft skills" is carried out, its classification characteristics are given, and the linguistic and methodological potential of TED Talks media content is determined. The author pays special attention to the development and description of a communication-oriented methodology for working with materials from the TED Talks service in order to develop soft skills in foreign language classes at a non-linguistic university.

Improving Leadership Qualities during Foreign Language Classes

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-313
Author(s):  
Gabriela Mihăilă-Lică
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Military Leadership ◽  
Leadership Traits ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
International Environment ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
Foreign Language Courses ◽  
The Individual

AbstractNumerous specialists agree with the fact that learning at least one other foreign language brings a multitude of advantages both to the individual who makes the effort to learn it, but also to the society he or she is part of. At the “Nicolae Bălcescu” Land Forces Academy, cadets learn about leadership not only from the specialized courses like Fundamentals of Leadership or Military Leaderships, but they can find opportunities to improve their leading skills and qualities during the foreign language classes. The article focuses on some of the most important qualities of a leader and offers suggestions on how these could be developed during the English, French or German classes. We believe that the foreign language courses will help students develop much needed leadership traits like adaptability, flexibility, open mindedness, the capacities of being good team players, good listeners and good communicators. These are qualities without which they will have a very hard time functioning not only in an international environment but also in a national one. As teachers we have to understand that it is more than vocabulary and grammar that we help our students learn, we also help them to learn about life, about being leaders of others.

Challenges of Foreign Language Teaching and Sustainable Development Competence Implementation in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balčiūnaitienė Asta ◽  
Teresevičienė Margarita
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
Language Classes

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.

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