scholarly journals Raising a New Generation of Professionals: Revising the Principles of Teaching Foreign Languages to Non-Linguistic University Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Ananyina ◽  
Irina Abramova ◽  
Elena Makarova ◽  
Elena Shishmolina
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
New Generation

scholarly journals USE OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES TO CREATE EDUCATIONAL QUIZZES FORMING FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 177-182
Author(s):  
Elena Dubrovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Comparative Experiment ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages

The article considers the phenomenon of gamification in education, studies various electronic resources creating educational quizzes, presents a comparative analysis of their advantages and disadvantages in order to teach foreign languages to University students. To prove the efficiency, the results of a comparative experiment of the use of electronic resources for creating quizzes are given.

scholarly journals Advantages of authentic assessment over traditional assessment while teaching English to university students majoring in non-linguistic subjects

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-293
Author(s):  
Irina Evgenyevna Abramova ◽  
Elena Petrovna Shishmolina ◽  
Anastasia Valeryevna Ananyina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Self Assessment

The paper analyzes existing approaches to assessing the results of teaching foreign languages to the university students majoring in non-linguistic subjects with a special focus on the advantages of authentic assessment. The authors stress the state-level need to develop and implement effective assessment tools for ESL university teaching, and substantiate the effectiveness of authentic assessment for increasing students motivation to learn English. They identify advantages of authentic assessment, including a possibility to track individual students learning progress, to effectively use peer assessment and self-assessment, to focus on students performance indicators, to create a success effect, and to present actual teaching and learning results or personal development achievements in the form of presentations, projects and other tangible accomplishments. The paper describes a unified system of control, assessment and evaluation of ESL teaching and learning results, developed by Foreign Languages for Students of Humanities Department at Petrozavodsk State University (Russia) for modeling a foreign-language environment and enhancing students language socialization. The authors give a detailed account of establishing procedures for the assessment of speaking and writing skills, and analyze a didactic potential of a foreign language portfolio as one of authentic assessment tools. They come to the conclusion that peer assessment, self-assessment and other authentic assessment methods help to shift the focus from teaching to learning and create optimal conditions for student-centered education process.

scholarly journals The Development of Intercultural Competence of Secondary School Pupils and University Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kateryna V. Krotik ◽  
Kateryna V. Krotik
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
University Students ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Educational Profession ◽  
Secondary School Pupils

Some issues regarding how secondary school pupils’ and university students’ (majoring in English, Chinese) intercultural competence, which are to be developed under conditions of the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19, are presented in the article. The authors review the literature on the education standards alongside some native and foreign scholars’ definitions of the pedagogical phenomenon “competence.” The purpose of the study is to analyze the model of competence under focus. We introduce some learning objectives aimed at developing secondary school pupils’ and university students’ intercultural competence. The problem`s relevance is preconditioned by the expanded intercultural and interethnic ties within Ukraine and other countries, which are to be observed when dealing with representatives of different countries and considered when elaborating the competence-based framework for secondary school pupils and university students. The leading suggestions (findings) related to the study have been given: systematic formation of the intercultural competence of secondary school pupils and university students, improvement of the existing curricula, and syllabi’s adaptation of the educational profession-oriented training programs intended future translators and teachers of foreign languages.

scholarly journals Professional adaptation of students majoring in linguistics in the prism of the academic tutorship

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-135
Author(s):  
Nadezhda P. Pomortseva ◽  
Yelena G. Solov'yova ◽  
Tat'yana V. Morozova
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Professional Culture ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Successful Work ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article deals with the issues of professional adaptation of university students through the activities of an academic tutor as an important innovative component of the modernisation of the education system and vocational training in the Russian Federation. The study was based on the unique experience of academic tutors of the Higher School of Foreign Languages and Translation of the Institute of International Relations, Kazan Federal University. This experience allows identifying the key activities of the tutor in terms of professional adaptation of undergraduates majoring in Linguistics. The article defines the concept of "professional adaptation", determines its goals and importance in the professional culture of future linguists in the context of the modernisation of the global educational medium. The authors conclude that the increased requirements for the personality of a graduate give a priority toself-improvement and self-development within professional adaptation where the main role is played by the academic supervisor. The authors formulate pedagogic conditions that contribute to the successful work of the tutor on the professional adaptation of university students, as well as recommendations for improving the tutor’s activities, aimed at involving future specialists in the profession through the formation of their creative, interpersonal, and culturological competences.

Machine-building materials of the new generation: a textbook for university students

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Волков ◽  
Georgiy Volkov
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Machine Building ◽  
World Level ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The theoretical foundations and technological principles of crea-ting constructional and functio-nal materials with аbove-world-level properties are presented in a textbook. Examples how an unique properties of these mate-rials are implementing in engi-neering products with above-world level properties are given. For developers of new equip-ment and students of engineer- ing science.

scholarly journals Media Discourse Space Effect on the Professional Development of University Students

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Guslyakova ◽  
A Guslyakova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
New Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
The Media ◽  
Younger Generation

The mass media of the first decades of the new millennium (the new media) are characterized not only by the paramount informing function but they are also distinguished by their ability to interact and influence the target audience in both spontaneous and dramatized modes. Simple navigation and a quick and easy accessto their content stand behind the increasing popularity of the new media among younger generation. Modern new media provide the discourse space where young people, or ‘the millennials’, feel as if they are in the center of various political, social and economic events; the so-called ‘Big Brothers’ having impact on people’s life in thesociety. Taking into account the facts that are directly connected with the existence of the youth in the media discourse space, this article aims to track and analyze the influence of the new media on the bachelor’s and master’s students’ professional selfconcept. Our research introduces the working hypothesis that today’s media discourse space affects both directly and indirectly on university students, no matter what their future specialization is. Our students’ survey was conducted in three Russian higher education institutions: Institute of philology and foreign languages, Moscow Pedagogical State University (MPSU, Moscow); Faculty of Science and Technology, South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University (SUSHPU, Chelyabinsk); and Ecological faculty, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University, Moscow). The survey included the responses of the junior and senior bachelor’s students as well as the first- and the second-year master’s students. Young respondents were asked to evaluate the degree of the perceived information credibility, a positive and negativeimpact of present-day social networks on the younger generation and on their professional future; foreign languages and cultural knowledge; the students’ ability to interact with a foreign media discourse space, reading and leaving comments about different events in the Russian and foreign new media. Therefore, we established the correlation between the various types of variables that compose the system of the media discourse space and the students’ multiple reactions to their comprehension of the new media. The key influencing factors in the course of information exchange between students’ world perception and the media world were defined. The main conclusions about the extent of the new media influence (or its absence) on bachelor’s and master’s students and their professional development were drawn in the research. Keywords: new media, media discourse space, professional development, professional self-concept, undergraduate and graduate students

scholarly journals UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' BIOTECHNOLOGY KNOWLEDGE

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Vincentas Lamanauskas ◽  
Rita Makarskaitė-Petkevičienė
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
Knowledge Questionnaire ◽  
Female Bias ◽  
Modern Biotechnology ◽  
The University ◽  
New Generation

Biotechnology has made remarkable progress in recent years, and caused a revolution in different sciences. It is obvious, that the advance of modern biotechnology will have a great influence on the world. On the other hand, some ethical problems have emerged. The arguments about ethical and social impacts of biotechnology made clear that not only getting basic knowledge about biotechnology and genetic engineering, also ethical and social issues must be thought in the schools, because the level of knowledge and the attitudes of new generation is very important for the society, and for the future of our world. It is obvious, that students should know about modern biotechnologies more. So, in this study it is tried to determine the university students’ knowledge towards biotech-nology. This research is carried out in January, 2008. Sample was made by students of two universities of Lithuania in total 287 respondents. In sample students of biological and non biological programs are selected. Our research was conducted in educational faculties mainly where a strong female bias in Lithuania historically exists, it was impossible to adjust the female to male ratio more accurately. The age of students ranged from 18 to 29 years (M = 20.41 years, SD = 1.45). A 16-item Likert-type Biotech-nology Knowledge Questionnaire (BKQ) was used to examine students’ knowledge in biotechnology. The results have shown that students do not have sufficient knowledge about biotechnology. Knowledge of students in the field of biotechnologies is very weak and inconsistent. Knowledge mismatch to modern achievements of a science in the given area. The answers given to the statements do not differ significantly between the biology students and the students who do not take any biology courses (non-biology programms). This result shows that education at the university level does not focus enough on biotechnology and its implications. In the opinion of researchers university students need to learn more facts and issues related to modern biotechnology. Also we need to find some approaches to improve non-biology students knowledge about biotechnology. Key words: biotechnology, knowledge, university students.

scholarly journals The Use of Transition Signals in University Students’ Community Service Report

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Ni Putu Cahyani Putri Utami ◽  
Made Wahyu Mahendra
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Study Program ◽  
English Academic Writing

Transition signals are the essential elements to achieve a well-structured text. The ideas in the text need to connect to each other. It will be difficult for the reader to understand the sequence if the ideas are simply just exposed by the writer without being related to each other. Students’ competency and ability in English academic writing overviewed from their competence in constructing sentences. Therefore, this research aimed to find out the use of transition signals and their accuracy in students’ community service report. The research used a descriptive quantitative method. The data were taken from students’ community service report written by the seventh semester English literature students of Foreign Languages Study Program of Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar. The finding of this research showed that the total number of transition signals used by the students in their community service report were 303 and classified into eight types of transition signals. Transition signals to introduce sequence and logically order ideas was mostly used and transition signals to emphasize ideas was least used by the students. From the whole types of transition signals, the average usage accuracy was above 60%.

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