scholarly journals Modern principles of teaching professionally-oriented vocabulary in a technical university

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
А.П. Маринская
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Educational Motivation ◽  
Digital Generation ◽  
Technical University ◽  
High Dynamics ◽  
The University

Владение профессионально-ориентированной лексикой является одним из важнейших факторов, обусловливающих успех коммуникации в академической, деловой и профессиональной сферах, а также является средством расширения знаний в предметной области и развития экстралингвистических компетенций. В этой связи обучение профессионально-ориентированной лексике является одним из важнейших направлений повышения качества языковой подготовки специалистов технического вуза. Несмотря на возрастающую потребность в овладении иностранным языком и существенную теоретическую разработанность вопросов формирования и развития лексических навыков и учений, практические результаты обучения зачастую не соответствуют поставленным целям. Одну из причин данного противоречия мы видим в недостаточной или изолированной реализации комплекса основополагающих принципов обучения лексике, а также их современной интерпретации с учетом особенностей обучения цифрового поколения. Следует также принимать во внимание «неблагоприятные» педагогические условия обучения иностранному языку в техническом вузе, такие как временные ограничения, (2 часа в неделю 2-4 семестра в зависимости от вуза наряду с требуемым приростом словаря от 1200- 2600 единицы); низкий уровень учебной мотивации в отношении дисциплин гуманитарного цикла, быстрое устаревание методической литературы и высокая динамика развития профессиональной сферы. Учитывая вышесказанное, в настоящей работе предпринимается попытка обобщить имеющийся теоретико-практический материал, посвященный принципам обучения профессионально-ориентированной лексике, рассмотрев его через призму современного социального заказа, уточнив некоторые традиционные принципы с учет особенностей учащихся цифрового поколения, а также продемонстрировать комплиментарность и взаимообусловленность этих принципов. Proficiency in professionally-oriented vocabulary is one of the most important factors that determine the success of communication in the academic, business and professional spheres, as well as a means of expanding knowledge in the subject area and developing extralinguistic competencies. In this regard, the training of professionally-oriented vocabulary is one of the most important areas for improving the quality of language training of specialists of a technical university. Despite the growing need for mastering a foreign language and the significant theoretical development of the issues of formation and development of lexical skills and teachings, the practical results of training often do not meet the goals set. We see one of the reasons for this contradiction in the insufficient or isolated implementation of the set of fundamental principles of teaching vocabulary, as well as their modern interpretation, taking into account the peculiarities of teaching the digital generation. It is also necessary to take into account the "unfavorable" pedagogical conditions of teaching a foreign language in a technical university, such as time constraints (2 hours per week, 2-4 semesters, depending on the university, along with the required increase in vocabulary from 1200 - 2600 units); low level of educational motivation in relation to the disciplines of the humanities cycle, rapid obsolescence of methodological literature and high dynamics of professional development. Taking into account the above, this paper attempts to summarize the available theoretical and practical material on the principles of teaching professionally-oriented vocabulary, considering it through the prism of the modern social order, clarifying some traditional principles taking into account the characteristics of students of the digital generation, as well as to demonstrate the complementarity and interdependence of these principles.

Richard Mackenney, Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c. 1250–c. 1650. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2019, xiii, 471.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 551-552
Author(s):  
Thomas Willard
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Legal Scholar ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Italian Studies ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Town ◽  
The University

Shakespeare is well known to have set two of his plays in and around Venice: The Merchant of Venice (1596) and The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1603). The first is often remembered for its famous speech about “the quality of mercy,” delivered by the female lead Portia in the disguise of a legal scholar from the university town of Padua. The speech helps to spare the life of her new husband’s friend and financial backer against the claims of the Jewish moneylender Shylock. The play has raised questions for Shakespearean scholars about the choice of Venice as an open city where merchants of all nations and faiths would meet on the Rialto while the city’s Senate, composed of leading merchants, worked hard to keep it open to all and especially profitable for its merchants. Those who would like to learn more about the city’s development as a center of trade can learn much from Richard Mackenney’s new book.

scholarly journals STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT MODERN TRENDS IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION(ON THE EXAMPLE OF TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3(53)) ◽  
pp. 34-38
Author(s):  
Valerii I. Uvarov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
University Education ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
National Education ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
The University

The article attempts to analyze the current trends in education and identify the most important ones for teaching at the university. As a result of the study of domestic and foreign scientific works devoted to the modernization of education, the author offers a list of strategically important modern trends that need to be massively implemented in the national educational environment in order to improve the quality of teaching various disciplines at the university. The examples presented in the article are taken from the author’s personal professional experience, since all of the stated trends are reflected in his teaching activities. In conclusion, the author points out that the list of potential innovations is not limited to this article, and expresses hope for further research on this issue, considering it strategically important for national education.

scholarly journals Problems of Inclusive Education in the Field of Physical Culture in Technical University

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.36) ◽  
pp. 1126
Author(s):  
S. V. Pryakhin
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Motor Skill ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Mental Action ◽  
Technical University ◽  
The University

At all phases of formation of a motor skill, the formation of both neuromuscular and vegetative components takes place. At the same time, vegetative reactions are becoming more specific and reflect requests from the motor sphere. The present article discusses the formation of a sequence of mental action programs, allowing to improve the quality of inclusive education in the field of physical culture at the university. 

scholarly journals ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF CONTROL OF LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN DISTANCE LEARNING MODE: WAYS TO ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (78) ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
A.P. Zhuravlev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Quality Of Control ◽  
Quality Of Learning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
The University ◽  
Stated Problem

The article deals with the issue of improving the quality of learning a foreign language, namely the ways to eliminate the problems that occur during teaching the subject in distance learning mode. By means of the Ishikawa diagram the basic groups of factors that affect the quality of learning a foreign language specifically in distance learning mode are figured out. After that the factors that cannot be affected directly by a teacher are excluded from consideration. The remaining factors are carefully considered in order to find which one of them is the best in terms of neutralizing the stated problem. A number of modern methods of teaching foreign languages is analyzed; as the result, a range of indicative tasks for qualitative control of learning a foreign language is proposed, with basic features of distance learning taken into account. In conclusion it is pointed out that the proposed tasks can be used by the university tutors to enhance the quality of control of learning a foreign language in distance learning mode.

scholarly journals Individual and Group Projects in English at the University

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
I.E. Abramova ◽  
E.P. Shishmolina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Project Work ◽  
State University ◽  
Group Projects ◽  
Language Teaching Methods ◽  
The University ◽  
Russian Universities

The article deals with the foreign language training in Russian Universities and the development of professional competencies of the graduates. The reasons for employers’ dissatisfaction with the quality of young personnel’s education are analyzed. An interdisciplinary model of professionally oriented foreign language teaching is considered as one of the means of students’ competencies forming. The potential of project tasks in this model is described, and their advantages in comparison with traditional foreign language teaching methods are indicated. The authors present the system of individual and group projects in English used in Petrozavodsk State University. Besides, the authors describe the stages of students ’activities, give specific examples of projects and analyze difficulties in organizing students’ project work. The article contains an analysis of the results of student surveys confirming the feasibility of using professionally-oriented project tasks in teaching a foreign language at a university.

scholarly journals ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF CONTINUITY IN TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO STUDENTS OF NON-LANGUAGE SPECIALTIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (194) ◽  
pp. 65-70
Author(s):  
Zhanna Babyak ◽  
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Iryna Plavutska ◽  
Natalia Rybina ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
University Education ◽  
Language Training ◽  
The University

The article considers the issues of continuity in foreign language teaching in the process of continuing professional education in the system «school» – «university». The essence of continuity as a didactic principle is clarified and its components have been determined. The task of continuity in the content of teaching a foreign (English) language to students of non-language specialties of universities and the factors that complicate its implementation are outlined. The importance of adhering to this principle for optimizing the educational process at all levels and stages of learning is emphasized. The importance of adhering to the principle of continuity in the transition from school to university education system is emphasized. It is shown that continuity in foreign language learning covers all components of the learning process and is complex. Some technologies for ensuring the continuity of foreign language learning are proposed, which helps to improve the quality of language training for future professionals. The authors state that the concept of continuity is actively used in the national educational space as a designation of one of the prerequisites for optimizing the study of English at the stage of transition from the school stage to the system of higher education. The essence of continuity as a pedagogical principle is that at each higher stage of education in determining the content of education takes into account everything that was learned at earlier stages. It is stated that one of the technologies to ensure the implementation of the principle of continuity directly in the educational process is the use of a leveling course, the possibilities of which to improve the knowledge of freshmen and eliminate the possible gap between the starting level of English and the requirements of the university program were demonstrated.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATION IMPROVEMENT OF STUDENTS’ INDEPENDENT WORK IN CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 229 ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
N.V. Eremina ◽  
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V.V. Tomin ◽  
J.V. Kanyukova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Training System ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
The University ◽  
Independent Work

Currently, a very urgent problem in the university training system of students in foreign languages is the problem of designing educational and methodological complexes for classroom and extracurricular use. Analysis of this problem’s state in the context of social order allows us to note that the domestic market is insufficiently saturated with the required teaching aids. Existing textbooks differ, as a rule, either by a traditional formal approach or by a hypertrophied professional orientation and the absence of assignments aimed at independent extracurricular work. Educational and methodological complexes at the university level should be built based on communicative, sociocultural, and cognitive approaches. Raising the status of a foreign language in many countries’ education systems poses the task of creating new pedagogical, didactic, and methodological developments of conditions for improving the process of its learning. A characteristic feature of didactic aids is the versatility of their application. The structuredness of educational and methodological complexes in the form of multi-level blocks contributes to developing students of a scientific organization for the development of educational material, free orientation within the course, and the development of practical skills for performing control tasks. The main criteria for selecting material for students’ independent work are problematic, relevance, availability, adequacy, optimality of volume and complexity, the possibility of self-control and self-correction, and variability of tasks. Independent work in a foreign language in the context of cross-cultural interaction at non-linguistic faculties is an obligatory part of the educational process. The main goals are achieving an appropriate level of foreign language communicative competence and preparing graduates for an independent increase in foreign language proficiency. When planning and organizing students’ independent work in cross-cultural interaction, it is necessary to consider their readiness to perform this type of work: psychological, theoretical, practical.

scholarly journals How Well Can Arab EFL Learners Adequately Use Discourse Markers?

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Written Compositions ◽  
The University

Discourse markers are words or phrases used in both speech and writing to signal relationships between discourse segments, including clauses, sentences and even larger portions of texts such as paragraphs. Their proper use in writing effectively contributes to textuality standards, particularly cohesion and coherence. On the other hand, learners’ misuse, underuse or overuse of these markers may negatively impact the quality of the texts that these learners produce. This paper examined the ability of a group of Arab learners of English as a foreign language (ALEFL) from the University of Sharjah to recognize and produce discourse markers in written compositions. Using two elicitation techniques, the researchers collected data for this research from a sample of one hundred Arab learners studying English at the University of Sharjah. A test consisting of four parts was specially designed to evaluate participants’ ability to recognize and produce discourse markers in context. In addition, two hundred compositions written by ALEFL were analyzed to investigate their ability to produce discourse markers. The data analysis revealed that the participants’ ability to recognize and produce discourse markers was relatively low and their ability to recognize the functions of discourse markers in context was below expectations.

scholarly journals Influence of the quality of educational services of a technical university on the employment of graduates

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 459-473
Author(s):  
Dmitry V. Maltsev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Subsequent Formation ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Technical University ◽  
The University

Introduction. Quality management of educational services is impossible without feedback from employers, graduates, and parents of students. Analysis of their opinions will help identify weaknesses in the educational process of the University, for the subsequent formation of a roadmap for managing the quality of education. The purpose of the study: to develop recommendations for improving the quality of education of students of the technical University by identifying dissatisfaction with professional, labor and socio-cultural training. Materials and methods. 1261 interested persons took part in the survey, including: 386 graduates (representatives of 225 enterprises and organizations), representatives of employers – 265 people (representatives of 173 enterprises and organizations), parents of students – 610 people. The quality of educational process was assessed by satisfaction with educational activities and satisfaction with the socio-cultural environment of the university. Research results. The results of the level of satisfaction with the quality of educational activities are analyzed, in particular: the level of satisfaction of graduates ranged from 66 to 88%, the greatest dissatisfaction is associated with the organization of practices, research work and the material and technical base of the University. Employers are more dissatisfied with the professional training of graduates, in particular bachelors. More than 70% of employers say that specialists are much better prepared to perform their work functions. In terms of assessing the socio-cultural environment, the satisfaction of students' parents ranged from 49 to 72%. The main comments are related to financial incentives (scholarships, surcharges), as well as the organization of leisure and recreation. The practical significance is to identify the most pressing issues that are not always obvious when viewed from the "inside" of the organization. Many problems are typical for higher education institutions in General, so the results of this study can be useful and applicable for internal audits, in-house surveys, and improving the quality of educational services in other universities.

ENGINEERING STUDENTS PROFESSIONAL CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE FORMATION

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Полина Сергеевна Минакова
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
The University

В современном экономическом и социокультурном контексте есть все основания рассматривать владение английским языком будущими инженерами, потенциальными участниками межкультурного профессионального общения, как необходимое условие их будущей профессиональной деятельности. Несмотря на существующие проблемы подготовки специалистов в вузе, необходимо модернизировать и совершенствовать технологии обучения иностранному языку, руководствуясь требованиями социального заказа. In the modern socio-political, economic and socio-cultural context of the world development, there is every reason to consider the proficiency of English by future engineers, potential participants in intercultural professional communication, as a necessary condition for their future professional activities. Despite the existing problems of foreign language training of technical specialists at the university, it is necessary to modernize and improve the teaching technologies of a foreign language, guided by the requirements of the social order.

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