scholarly journals Un percorso di accostamento precoce al bilinguismo in ambito formativo Il modello e gli strumenti utilizzati

Author(s):  
Alberta Novello

The advantages of teaching a foreign language from an early age has been demonstrated in the past years. However, only few schools in Italy offer bilingual programmes. Early bilingual childhood education represents a significant opportunity for the personal development of the child and for the quality of his/her language competence. This paper describes a model used to teach a foreign language to very young learners (aged 0-6) in schools and it presents and discusses some documents which have been devised in order to gather information about this model.

Author(s):  
Hulkar Rahimboeva ◽  
Gulnoza Tilyavova

This article covers the easiest ways to learn a foreign language for the children at an early age. It includes activities that may interest children and teach them to think in English. If we use these methods in teaching young people, if we can increase their interest in learning the language, in the future they would not only become masters of their profession, but also have the opportunity to expand their abilities even more. The purpose of this article is to increase the interest of many people in learning a language with the help of task- based learning approach and project-based learning approach.


Author(s):  
Yevhen Gromov ◽  
Alla Kolomiiets ◽  
Natalia Lazarenko ◽  
Olesia Zhovnych ◽  
Liliia Biretska

The comparative analysis of the foreign language competence among the citizens of Poland and Czech Republic has been accomplished. The received findings were compared with current observations of all-European linguistic tendencies. Having analysed various statistics the authors succeeded in assembling the social portrait of an average multilingual European. The authors have also considered the fact that over the past years the official percentage of multilingual citizens, both in Poland and the Czech Republic, has significantly decreased due to intensive emigration processes. In the authors’ opinion, this problem is mostly of the socio-economic nature and demonstrates rather not the weakness of educational systems, but the ability of educational institutions of both countries to prepare competitive specialists who are able (due to the high level of foreign language competence) to find decent job in the labour-market of the United Europe. It has also been stated that since the foreign language competence has become a professional and cultural prerequisite for creation of the unified globalized Europe, and multilingualism has become a part of the European identity, the future specialists’ foreign language training in Ukraine should be conducted precisely taking into account the prospects of European integration.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 81-103
Author(s):  
Miloš Řezník

Crossing the border. A Romantic journey and test of Prussianness in the pre-March period: Václav Vladivoj Tomek’s wanderings in the Silesian-Czech borderlandIn the article I analyse, using a specific example from 1830, the identity-shaping perception of the mountains as a border at a time of Czech national agitation. Drawing on the memoirs of a young Prague law student, Václav Vladivoj Tomek, later an eminent Czech historian, I present perception categories he used to reflect on the differences between societies and cultures along the Czech-Silesian   Austrian-Prussian border and to discuss their links with the landscape. This is placed, on the one hand, in the context of the agitation phase of the Czech national movement in its early period, and on the other in the context of individual and collective processes of identification of a young man at a key stage of his personal development. Tomek expressed his observations in the language of cultural, social and confessional diversity. In this he focused on the quality of life, architecture, faith with a tendency to exoticise Protestantism and partly also historical culture in Prussia. Significantly, there  are no comments concerning the problem of the mismatch, so important in later years, between the state and the language border: the transition between predominantly Czech-speaking and predominantly German-speaking regions near the state border in this case the  Broumov region is not even mentioned. The crossing of the border as a practice is not referred to either; the border is seen as a point,  what is mentioned in its crossing are only state symbols. Although strong emotions are visible, the now nationally aware Tomek does not allude to national emotions state border, but to a Romantic view of the landscape accompanied by a fascination, typical of the period, with what is picturesque and extraordinary in the mountains, rocks, sights and traces of the past found in the mountains.


2021 ◽  
pp. 173-191
Author(s):  
Marta Segura ◽  
Helena Roquet ◽  
Carmen Pérez-Vidal

In an attempt to explore the effects of different kinds of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning contexts, content and language integrated learning (CLIL) have been at the centre of FL acquisition research over the past decade. Studies have focused on the features and gains this setting brings, whether content is learnt at the same level of success as when taught in the learners’ L1, and whether that L1 is negatively affected by CLIL. However, to our knowledge, very little attention has been brought to how the seniority of the programme affects learner progress in the target language. This study aims to fill such a gap in the understanding that the programme will have developed and improved in terms of quality of exposure and interaction, and that learners’ EFL performance will be higher. To do that, we measured the efficacy of a long-standing CLIL programme in Barcelona twelve years after it was launched and examined the reading, writing, and lexico-grammatical abilities of CLIL EFL learners aged 8, 11, and 14 compared with results obtained by learners measured at the onset of the programme in 2005. The results showed that the quality of the programme has increased over the last decade, guaranteeing a higher level of EFL student proficiency when raw scores are considered, but not in terms of linguistic gains, in which only improvement in older students’ grammar and reading skills can be observed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
Mária Lalinská ◽  
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Jana Hučková ◽  
Silvia Hvozdíková ◽  
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One of the priorities of European language policy is to maintain linguistic diversity, cultural identity and, last but not least, to promote effective foreign language learning. French language has a long tradition in the Slovak geographical area, whether in a historical, cultural or economic context. In the educational context over the last decade, however, it has become a second foreign language, which has begun to be reflected in particular in the declining numbers of pupils studying French. Quantitative indicators in the form of statistical yearbooks show a sixty to seventy-five percent decrease in the number of pupils learning French at different levels of education. The lower numbers of lessons, normally allocated for a second foreign language, affects the quality of the knowledge and language skills that the pupil has to acquire in order to be able to communicate at the required level in French. Based on the current position of French language in the Slovak school environment and the requirements that are placed on the language level of students, our goal was to design an effective tool that would take into account the various factors affecting the acquisition of foreign language competence of students in French. The main aim of our contribution is to present to the professional public a tool in the form of an intervention program, which specifically focuses on the development of one of the key language skills included in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, namely reading comprehension in French language. The degree of difficulty of its acquisition depends on several factors. The mastery of the linguistic, sociolingual and intercultural specifics typical for French language plays an important role in this process. In a broader sense, however, it is a much more complex process, which is also conditioned by cognitive, social and personality variables. These variables can also be called predictors or factors that significantly affect the understanding of a foreign language text. The overall concept of the intervention program is based on pre-research associated with measuring the level of reading comprehension and determining the predictors affecting students' comprehension of the text. Considering the pre-research carried out to determine the achieved level of pupils in reading comprehension, the proposed intervention program can be regarded as a preventive, but also a corrective tool for the development of language competence in French language. The compilation of an intervention program in the form of ten model intervention units for the development of reading comprehension in French has a precise structure and takes into account the ontogenetic specifics of the target group (third-year students of secondary education). The ambition of the intervention program is to include various possibilities and ways of working with text in French with regard to the development of the relevant predictor, and thus contribute to improve the quality of language education of students and last but not least to be an inspiration for teachers (as well as future teachers) of French language in a new original way.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Hayat Aoumeur

This paper is devoted to the study of the impact of class size on teaching and learning English as a foreign language. The investigation was conducted at the department of English at Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University. The department has witnessed a huge increase in the enrolment figure in the past decade which resulted into an increase in class sizes. This has created problems for staff and students alike. Despite the steps taken by the administrators to reduce the number of students, the problem of class crowding still persists. The department of English, alone, has an enrolment of almost 3000 students, it is a huge number indeed if we take into consideration the availability of facilities and resources. The aim of this study is to explore the organizational and pedagogical difficulties that are frequently encountered by the teachers dealing with large classes and the effects on student learning. Additionally, this paper proposes some suggestions on how to deal with class overcrowding. As part of our research, we have given questionnaires to 200 students and 40 teachers. The findings of the survey clearly demonstrate that large class sizes have an adverse impact on the quality of teaching and learning.


Author(s):  
Alla Blashevska ◽  
Marіana Lukіanchuk ◽  
Maііa Fedorets

The article deals with the problem of the formation foreign language competence for students in pedagogical college by means of project technology in the process of teaching the course "Foreign language for professional purposes". It defines the didactic foundations and proposes the practical solutions of this problem through the implementation of educational projects of different types. The essence of the project technology, its main tasks, functions, stages of organization and conditions of its implementation in the educational process in pedagogical college, which provides the quality of the foreign language competence formation, are analyzed in detail. In the article the process of the project based learning implementation is presented, the typology and themes of the educational projects that are the most suitable ones for implementation in the course “Foreign language for professional purposes” are suggested, in order to provide the conditions for the individual students’ self-realization, which involves the design of the trajectory of personal and professional development. Also it was set out the following tasks: to analyze the components of the project method, to substantiate scientific bases of project method implementation, to do conclusions about ways of its use in the process of training the foreign language communication in the process of the future teacher preparation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (33) ◽  
pp. e16754
Author(s):  
Alla Guslyakova ◽  
Nina Guslyakova ◽  
Nailya Valeeva ◽  
Ludmila Veretennikova

The article covers the problem of project-based learning (PBL) in present-day foreign language classes. The main aim of this research is to identify how PBL method can be implemented in teaching a foreign language (for example, English as a second language) in a modern comprehensive school and to give recommendations on organizing a foreign language class with the help of PBL. The working hypothesis of the study says that PBL method can be a relevant and effective methodological technique allowing educators to improve the quality of school education and motivating young learners to work hard at L2 classes and study a foreign language better. For the effective analysis and estimation of project-based learning in teaching ESL a two-step experiment was conducted. Overall, the results of the study demonstrated the importance of introduction of project-based learning in foreign language classes as an essential component of the teacher’s work in the present-day education. They also proved that project-based learning should be a must in every educator’s pedagogical “piggy-bank” because PBL is an effective professional instrument which may overcome the latest demands and challenges of the third millennium society.


2021 ◽  
pp. 86-91
Author(s):  
Duzhyk N.S.

The purpose of this paper is to identify factors and methods enhancing the quality of learning in a university setting. It is pointed out that an overcritical attitude towards learners’ incompetent public performance may cause anxiety and hinder their learning. However, group participation facilitates developing students’ self-expression and life skills. Traditional views on teaching are evaluated with regard to the latest pedagogical trends.The methodology of the paper relies on observation of the educational process, theoretical analysis of common and emerging frameworks for teaching English as a second language in a university setting, as well as synthesis, and generalization of research literature findings.The paper demonstrates how a traditional framework for teaching English as a second language can be modified to accommodate learners’ needs and investigates how innovative methods and technologies affect teaching of a foreign language and development of students’ foreign language competence. It is shown that lessons incorporating pre-communicative and communicative activities can be structured differently. The key to successful learning by a group of students is to take into consideration the quality of tasks and to present materials in a flexible manner to the learners.Our examples are based on fundamental principles, such as a variety of tasks, repetition and internationalization of the content. For warm-up or pre-communicative activities, we choose tasks preparing students for speaking and building their language competence. A number of “silent” activities enable learners to perform more or less simultaneously in order to lay the foundation for their internal language representation in an atmosphere free from anxiety and distraction. After completing exercises, students are expected to utilize previously learned grammar and vocabulary in their speech.In conclusion, we reiterate that successful learning takes place when external and internal factors are accounted for. Modern technologies are an effective extension of in-class learning for improving students’ pronunciation, enriching their vocabulary, and developing their speaking and writing skills.Key words: foreign and second language learning, principles of learning, approaches, technology-enhanced learning, the sequence of tasks. Метою статті є визначення факторів і підходів, які сприяють підвищенню якості університетської освіти. Зазначено, що занадто критичне ставлення до неправильних відповідей студентів в аудиторії може спричинити бентежність та сповільнити навчання. Проте групова діяльність уможливлює розвиток самовираження та життєво важливих навиків. Традиційні погляди на навчання оцінюються з огляду на новітні тенденції.Методологія роботи ґрунтується на спостереженнях за навчальним процесом, теоретичному аналізі загальних та новітніх моделей навчання англійської мови як іноземної в університеті, а також на синтезі та узагальненні матеріалу.У статті показано, як можна модифікувати традиційну модель для вивчення англійської мови як іноземної, щоб задовольнити потреби здобувачів, та досліджено, як інноваційні методи та технології впливають на викладання іноземної мови та розвиток іншомовної компетенції студентів. Заняття, яке включає домовленнєвий етап та власне мовленнєвий етап, можна структурувати по-різному. Ключовий момент полягає у врахуванні характеру завдань та гнучкості у навчанні здобувачів.Наші приклади ґрунтуються на фундаментальних засадах, таких як різноманітність завдань, повторення та індивідуальне осмислення змісту. Для домовленнєвого епапу ми дібрали завдання, які готують студентів до мовленнєвої діяльності та формують їхню мовну компетентність. Низка завдань, які виконуються мовчки, має на меті відносно одночасне їх завершення, закладає основи внутрішньої мовної репрезентації в умовах, позбавлених бентежності та відволікання уваги. Очікується, що після виконання завдань студенти використовуватимуть засвоєну граматику та лексику у власному мовленні.У висновках наголошується на тому, що навчання є успішним, коли до уваги беруться зовнішні та внутрішні фактори. Сучасні технології є ефективним продовженням аудиторної роботи, яка дає змогу покращувати вимову, збільшувати словниковий запас, а також розвивати навики усного та письмового мовлення.Ключові слова: вивчення другої мови як іноземної, принципи навчання, підходи, цифрові технології навчання, послідовність завдань


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