scholarly journals Digital technologies in teaching and learning foreign languages: pedagogical strategies and teachers’ professional competence

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-88
Author(s):  
Thierry Karsenti ◽  
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Olga Kozarenko ◽  
Victoria Skakunova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies

Research problem: Today’s education system must adapt to the digital revolution and use it to best advantage. One of the most critical paths to pursue is to develop digital skills among student teachers. Many Russian researchers have focused on practices of digital technology integration in foreign language teaching, but, few among them have formulated systematic teaching strategies. The aim of the study: To elaborate the pedagogical strategies for developing digital competence among students on the basis of the complex approach and scientific achievements in this field. Research methods: The research is based on the statistics obtained during an online survey among university and school teachers, students. While conducting the interviews additional information appeared and teachers’ opinions were specified. The participants included 100 university foreign language teachers as well as 120 students from Central Russia. Results: The analysis revealed how the professors organized their digital learning spaces. Among others, the findings highlighted on which aspects they spent more Internet time, and the factors that limited digital use in class. The analysis of the students’ responses revealed some problems in using digital tools while learning a foreign language. The results can be used in developing students’ competences and in elaborating syllabus and teaching materials. Conclusions and recommendations. On the basis of recent achievements and collected data, the complex of pedagogical strategies to form digital competence among students during the foreign language learning have been elaborated. With the appropriate pedagogical accompaniment, digital technologies allow the development of student teachers’ digital competence to meet the demands of the modern society. Thus, it can increase the efficiency of foreign language teaching and will contribute to students’ personal development.

scholarly journals Digital educational environment as a factor of foreign language competences development

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 232-248
Author(s):  
Marina V. Rybakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Foreign Languages

The modern era of digital economy lays new claims to the system of education and professional learning. Digitation of higher education reveals new prospects for using digital resources to ensure accessibility, continuity and quality of education. The purpose of our investigation is to assess the effectiveness of the use of digital educational resources by students studying foreign languages. Principal methods of our research are as follows: bibliographic method of studying regulatory documents and scientific and methodological literature; the analysis of foreign language competences, mastering of which is the aim of foreign language teaching in a University; the study and generalization of working experience using digital technologies in foreign language teaching; experiment involving 24 students from MIREA – Russian Technological University. As a result of the study frequency of thematic terms and notions use in scientific-teaching literature and Internet search requests was defined; the analysis of modern digital educational technologies forming students’ foreign language competences was made; foreign language competences analyzed in the experiment were described; an experiment involving the comparison of application efficiency in using traditional and digital techniques for forming foreign language competences was carried out. The experiment showed the following: absence of statistically important differences in the level of formed foreign language competences in control and experimental groups at the beginning of the experiment as t = -0.99, p = 0.43. At the end of the experiment p < 0,05: t = -5.19, p = 0,000014. It testifies that the compared groups significantly differ that proves the effect of web-quest technique in teaching foreign languages. Digital educational resources contribute to mastering a foreign language as a means of professional communication and increase the motivation of students to study this subject. Prospects for further research can be related to the development of new forms and methods of applying innovative digital technologies with the aim to put them into foreign language teaching practice at the higher education level.

TEACHING A PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT A UNIVERSITY UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF NEO-INDUSTRIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. A. Vorob’eva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
University Student ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Industrial Economic

The article is devoted to professionally-oriented a foreign language teaching at a university, which today is one of the links of training a competitive specialist. The author describes the meaning of practical application of a foreign language. The problem of searching a way to improve the quality of foreign language teaching of university students is considered. A foreign language is considered as a means and as a way to improve the professional competence of a university student.

scholarly journals Implementation of plurilingual approach into the foreign language teaching

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Zuzana Straková
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
School Context ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
The European Union

Abstract Teaching foreign languages has adopted various approaches over the history. The last decades of dominance of the Communicative language teaching brought the tendency to insist on the target language use in the classroom in order to allow the immersion into the language. The European Union, however, started to support linguistic diversity more than two decades ago and it has left an imprint on the way foreign language teaching is approached today. Inclusion of plurilingualism in traditional school context requires the readiness of language teachers to use other languages as well as encourage learners to use their prior language experience. The present study presents the results of a questionnaire survey among student teachers measuring their attitudes and readiness to implement more than one additional language in their practice. The participants of the study (n = 118) are all future teachers of English language at both undergraduate and graduate level. The results of the survey indicate a generally positive attitude towards plurilingualism and at the same time ability of the students to rely on more than one language while teaching. The results, however, raise quite a few questions and imperatives for the content of teacher training programmes as well as for the organisation of language education in general.

The concept of the versatile research skills development among students of a technical university in the process of foreign language teaching

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Kulikova ◽  
Nina Popova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Technical University

Building research skills for students of technical universities attracts the attention as an important component of the professional competence. One of the possible solutions is to use elements of research work in the process of foreign language teaching, since this academic discipline provides a variety of opportunities for acquiring these skills. Studying a foreign language contributes to the development of research skills, analytical skills and critical thinking. Teaching students how to work with a text, to extract information, to use compression skills (summarizing) and expanding information (commenting), using citation, compiling a bibliographic list will help them gain skills for writing articles. The ability to make a presentation, ask questions and prove their point of view will prepare students for a presentation at a scientific conference and participation in a scientific discussion. Use of computer technology at all stages of training (information retrieval, creation of a written text, preparation of a presentation) also contributes to the skills necessary for a contemporary specialist. Attracting students’ attention to research work in a foreign language contributes to the increase of motivation for scientific work, and to the further studies of a foreign language, which becomes a means of obtaining professional information and generalizing existing knowledge in scientific work. Reliance on previously obtained knowledge brings research skills development in the framework of “foreign language” programme to the fore for non-linguistic stu-dents. These conclusions can be useful for teachers and students of a technical university and can improve research work organization of future specialists.

Student Teachers' Evaluation of the Motivational Strategies Used in Foreign Language Teaching

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 1269-1286
Author(s):  
Sabahattin Deniz
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Motivational Strategies

How much importance is attached to motivational strategies in foreign language teaching by student teachers and the extent to which instructors use them in their courses was investigated. The study was performed with 179 student teachers attending the English Language Teaching Department of Mugla University, Turkey. The findings revealed that these student teachers thought motivational strategies were very important for learning a foreign language, and that their instructors use some of these strategies but did not use other strategies considered to be important by the student teachers. Interviews showed that students thought studying the cultural values of the target language facilitates fluent use of that language and assists retention.

scholarly journals Profiling language learners in hybrid learning contexts: Learners’ perceptions

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Pekka Lintunen ◽  
Maarit Mutta ◽  
Sanna Pelttari
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Digital Competence

<p>This article discusses formal and informal foreign language learning before university level. The focus is on beginning university students’ perceptions of their earlier learning experiences, especially in digital contexts. Language learners’ digital competence is a part of their everyday lives, but its relationship to learning in and outside educational settings is still relatively seldom studied. The article discusses learning in formal and informal (i.e., hybrid) contexts and digital learning profiles −that is, a learner’s own personalized style in acquiring language competence by creating affordances in personalized digital or mobile learning environments− in primary and secondary education identified in a language learning survey. The results are based on an online survey sent to all beginning university students majoring in languages at a Finnish university (N= 87/192), which was complemented by a short narrative task (N=47) a few months later focusing on earlier education and the use of language learning technologies. The results suggest that the use of technologies seems to differ between extramural and in-school language learning. The learners were well aware of various possibilities to create affordances for learning, and their own involvement increased with age. Most participants had positive attitudes towards the use of technologies to enhance language learning, but critical views emphasized the importance of inspiring contact teaching. Three different digital learning profiles were identified: a digiage learner, a hybrid learner, and an in-school learner. These can be useful when planning differentiated foreign language instruction.</p>

scholarly journals Research on the Efficiency of Using Integrated Approach in Teaching Professionally-Oriented Foreign Language to Kazakhstani Students of the Specialty “International Relations”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umit Kopzhassarova ◽  
Lyazzat Bexultanova ◽  
Irina Olkova ◽  
Gulbarshyn Belgibayeva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Case Technologies

Currently the integration of Kazakhstan into the world community requires the training of highly qualified specialists fluently speaking and having a good command of foreign language. The study is devoted to the problem of development of foreign language professional skills of students of non-linguistic specialty. The aim of the research is to identify the efficiency of integrated approach use for shaping foreign language communicative skills of non-linguistic specialty students. The methodological basis of the research was communicative approach to foreign language teaching. In the framework of the research scientific and theoretical literary sources on the problem of the development of foreign language professional skills of non-linguistic specialty students were studied and summarized; the analysis of the empirical material obtained in the questioning and testing of students. To determine the level of formation of foreign language professional competence of international relations specialty students we have developed the following components: linguistic, cognitive, pragmatic. In the course of the experimental study, the authors revealed that the use of problem-based methods such as discussion, project and case technologies, debates in the framework of integrated approach to professional foreign language teaching promote students&rsquo; motivation increase and contribute to the improvement of their foreign language professional skills. The results of the study can be used in application of CLIL technology for the formation of foreign language professional competence of non-linguistic specialty students at the university.

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