scholarly journals Visualization tools: using word clouds in teaching «Ukrainian as a Foreign Language»

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-91
Author(s):  
Tetyana Oleksandrivna Leshchenko ◽  
◽  
Maryna Mikolayivna Zhovnir ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Word Clouds ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Visualization Tools

The essential role of the Internet has led to an increase amount of the cutting-edge ways, methods and technologies for improving of the approaches of the present-day educational system. Therefore, it’s vital for every higher educational establishment to open up for all foreign students’ vast opportunities to study under the guidance of the well qualified teaching stuff. There many effective as well as exiting teaching / learning approaches that can change the way of organization and delivery of higher education in today modern society. The harnessing the most advanced information and communication technologies, particulary visualization tools, is one of such approaches. In this paper the most common and appropriate ways of using the advanced information and communication technologies for educational purposes have been described. The act that learning Web 2.0 is an emergent phenomenon was declared and explained. The main reason for using Web 2.0 educational tools, particularly visualization tools have been shown and analyzed. As mentioned above, tasks the main problems of utilizing different kinds of Web Space tools have been discussed. The others of this research have also outlined what kinds of benefits we will have after shifting your learning style from traditional to online. They tried to show the positive and negative impacts of the advanced information and communication technologies on language studying process. They paid our attention on the language training of foreigners, particularly medical students. In this response the outers have proposed algorithm of modernizing the teaching of the discipline «Ukrainian as a Foreign Language» is especially valuable, capable of harnessing the visualization tools, in particular word clouds, of the Ukrainian language teaching process to foreign students mastering the medical profession. To comply with the notion that Wordle is used for fast analysis, quick and effective remembering terms, words and active topical phrases; they suggested some exercises and tasks to do on classes.

scholarly journals PODCASTING TECHNOLOGY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION CHANGES OF FOREIGN MEDICAL STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetyana Leshchenko ◽  
Maryna Zhovnir
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Information And Communication

The article deals with the problem of forming a linguistic personality of foreign medical students. It appeared within the context of rapid changes in the world and national educational systems. The necessities of pedagogically motivated changes and rational introduction of various information and communication technologies into higher education have been emphasized. The problem of choosing more effective ways and innovative approaches capable of competing with the traditional methods of presenting educational information, supplementing and expanding their register has been outlined. The leading goal of such transformations is to prepare future competitive specialists in various industries, including medical. In the course of the research the necessity and the value of systematic use of innovative didactic methods and techniques, as well as modern forms of work, educational resources that will provide qualitative training of future medical specialists have been substantiated. Тhe authors of the proposed article paid their attention to the podcasting technology. They have interpreted the term “podcast”. Also, the peculiarities of podcasts serving foreign students studying the subject «Ukrainian as a Foreign Language» have been described in detail. It was proved that the motivated introduction of information and communication technologies in the courses «Ukrainian as a Foreign Language» is a way to improve the quality of non-professional preparation of foreign students. The transcript of the training podcast has been presented. This podcast can be used in practical classes in the discipline «Ukrainian as a Foreign Language» (3rd year, specialty «Medicine»). The topic of practical training is «In а Cardiology Department». In addition to this, the authors of this article have proposed the system of specifically designed assignments. They also have outlined main priority areas of the computerization of the national higher education system, defined research activities and future prospects in this field.

scholarly journals The problems of foreign students’ training of listening skills by means of information and communication technologies

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Stages Of Learning

The article focuses on the importance of improving the effectiveness of foreign students’ listening skills formation at the initial stages of learning Russian as a foreign language. The author outlines the stages of work and its tasks, the groups of exercises and test tools, which are topical for listening skills training of the specified contingent of students with the help of information and communication technologies. The ways to overcome the difficulties of using multimedia educational programs as a training complex for teaching listening skills in accordance with specific requirements of this type of teaching aids and the general requirements of teaching materials for listening have been considered. The author states that non-native language proficiency is the most important means of obtaining the professional education for foreign students. The significance of the use of information and communication technologies as the newest means of increasing the efficiency of the educational process as well as its individual subsystems including language training have been determined in the article. Different aspects of teaching listening as a type of speech activity in scientific works of domestic and foreign scientists have been analyzed. The performance of listening skills improvement is possible through the systematic analysis of problems caused by non-compliance with linguodidactic requirements for the compilation of training materials for teaching listening skills to foreign students at initial stage of learning a non-native language. The article deals with specific requirements for educational materials compiled with the help of information and communication technologies, among which are multimedia, interactivity, nonlinearity and others are the most important ones. The article discusses the ways of combining two separate groups of requirements for the combination of this type of teaching aids. The author analyzes the experience of development of multimedia educational programs for teaching listening to the foreign students at the initial stages of learning Russian as a foreign language based on the adapted texts.

scholarly journals Web 2.0 services and organization of interactive distance learning of a foreign language

2021 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 05038
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Shugaeva ◽  
Svetlana Bogatyreva ◽  
Serafima Shumakova ◽  
Irina Sinitsyna
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Educational Potential

The issue of distance learning is very important at present. Herewith, learning of a foreign language is practically oriented, which causes difficulties upon conversion to distance learning. The main tool of implementation of distance learning is the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The use of these technologies for educational targets is not a novelty, though, under conditions of distance learning, the ICT is nearly the only tool to organize learning. This article is devoted to the analysis of potentials of WEB 2.0 services for learning of a foreign language. The study is aimed at revealing possibilities to apply WEB 2.0 services for efficient implementation of interactive forms of learning of a foreign language in distance mode. The formulated target was achieved using the following methods: continuous sampling method for collection of actual material; comparative method to compare functionality of WEB 2.0 services and demands for implementation of interactive forms of learning. Generalization and systematization were selected to reveal the types of WEB 2.0 services. During the studies the types of WEB 2.0 services have been revealed characterized by the highest potential to implement interactive forms of learning. Among these types, the highest potential is demonstrated by the services for meetings and universal services; field-specific services allow to create jointly various types of content for further use during online meetings and for interaction on universal services. The novelty of the obtained results has ben stipulated by specificity of analysis criterion: the educational potential of WEB 2.0 services was studied not in whole but exactly for implementation of interactive forms of learning of a foreign language in distance mode.

scholarly journals Web 2.0 vs. the Semantic Web: A Philosophical Assessment

Episteme ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciano Floridi
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Clear Explanation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication

ABSTRACTThe paper develops some of the conclusions, reached in Floridi (2007), concerning the future developments of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their impact on our lives. The two main theses supported in that article were that, as the information society develops, the threshold between online and offline is becoming increasingly blurred, and that once there won't be any significant difference, we shall gradually re-conceptualise ourselves not as cyborgs but rather as inforgs, i.e. socially connected, informational organisms. In this paper, I look at the development of the so-called Semantic Web and Web 2.0 from this perspective and try to forecast their future. Regarding the Semantic Web, I argue that it is a clear and well-defined project, which, despite some authoritative views to the contrary, is not a promising reality and will probably fail in the same way AI has failed in the past. Regarding Web 2.0, I argue that, although it is a rather ill-defined project, which lacks a clear explanation of its nature and scope, it does have the potentiality of becoming a success (and indeed it is already, as part of the new phenomenon of Cloud Computing) because it leverages the only semantic engines available so far in nature, us. I conclude by suggesting what other changes might be expected in the future of our digital environment.

THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
Vol XIII (XIII) ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
L.D. KRIVYKH ◽  
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O.B. BAGRINTSEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

The article deals with the application of new technologies in teaching foreign languages. Substantiates the importance of the development of other forms and methods of teaching English to students of information technology disciplines. As well as drawing attention to the use of new information and communication technologies of the Internet. The article includes examples of the use of podcasts in the development of listening skills. The article is written for foreign language teachers, all interested in the methodology of teaching foreign languages, based on new technologies.

scholarly journals Implementation of Competence Approach with Simulation Technology

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01161
Author(s):  
Irina N. Raptanova ◽  
Maria .V. Shcherbakova ◽  
Anna S. Fomichenko ◽  
Olga V. Strizhkova ◽  
Elena A. Mokritskaya
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Simulation Technology ◽  
Search Activity ◽  
Information And Communication

The modernization of higher education is mandatory condition for the current stage of Russian society development and the ensuring of the Russian economy competitiveness. One of the priority issues of modernization is the strengthening of the significance of self-students studying. This is due primarily to the considerable reduction in the number of classroom sessions and the increase in hours provided for self-students studying. Self-studying becomes the basis for the professional development of a bachelor, encourage his cognitive interests, promotes the essential objectives of the training, that is, the formation of communicative and professional competences. The nature of the relationship between the teacher and the bachelor alters within the framework of competence-oriented education. The teacher, released from the mere transfer of knowledge, gets freedom in choosing forms of interaction or rather in choosing the methods used in such field of studying as “Foreign Language”. Classical teaching methods are replaced with new ones. The emergence of information and communication technologies led to their rapid introduction into the educational process. The organization of self-students studying through the use of information and communication technologies is of great interest to many educational specialists. The specific nature of information and communication technologies lies in the creation in the educational process of various kinds of relations and conditions of real life, requiring from bachelors not only the knowledge of work-related material, but also their familiarization with a given image, a holistic immersion in the professional environment. The use of simulation technology facilitates the formation of cognitive-search activity of bachelors, causes incentive for learning a foreign language.

scholarly journals TEACHING UKRAINIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE BY USING MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Tetyana Leshchenko ◽  
Maryna Zhovnir ◽  
Natalia Grinko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Mapping Technique ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Speech Communication ◽  
Pedagogical Innovation ◽  
Information And Communication

The article is devoted to the problem of successful implementation of different cutting-edge techniques in teaching in the context of the current significant modifications and profound transformations of the educational system in Ukraine. This work focuses on the forming a foreign medical student linguistic personality, in particular it’s grammar, speech, communication as well as socio-cultural competencies, including by utilizing Advanced Information and Communication technology tools. This research focuses on the introduction of Advanced Information and Communication Technologies into the Ukrainian educational process. It was pointed out, that the effective teaching methodology could be based on the newest methods and techniques. The advantages of pedagogical innovation in comparison with traditional methods of presenting educational information was pointed out. The researchers have interpreted the term Mind map. They have also presented and analyzed its important features, common ways of implementation into current teaching process.

scholarly journals Didactic basics of ICTs usage in foreign language teaching in non-language higher education institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Аlla Oleksandrivna Shchehlova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Information And Communication

The article explores the features of modern information and communication technologies implementation in teaching technical English. The specifics of teaching foreign languages for applicants for non-linguistic specialties has its own characteristics, which should be taken into account when constructing and conducting classes. The information society poses new challenges and correspondingly new goals for teachers and applicants to higher education, the achievement of which is ensured by analyzing situational data and creating the environment that would most closely reflect the realities of the modern professional environment, which requires an appropriate level of a foreign language knowledge. It was determined that electronic learning tools act as a catalyst in mastering the material and improve the quality of the educational process. The study analyzed psychological factors that provide an extremely high level of student motivation and form the corresponding priorities in the direction of professional growth. The pedagogical ways of introducing multimedia teaching aids while studying a foreign language are described in detail as a key condition for the fundamental training of a qualified specialist, focused on meeting the needs of the modern market. It is noted that higher education institutions do not yet fully possess educational computer programs and the latest software, which is one of the most pressing problems in the digitalization of the educational process. It is proved that the effectiveness of achieving didactic goals directly depends on the chosen forms and methods of training, and the inclusion of information and communication technologies has such advantages as individualization and intensification of the educational process, an increase in the amount of independent work of the applicant, which is an important component of the Bologna process. In this regard, and with the aim of developing the communication skills of future specialists, ICTs are considered to be the primary element in the training of qualified specialists in economic fields.

Information Literacy of a Foreign Language Teacher: An Analysis of Russian and European Professional Standards of Teachers

Vestnik MEI ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Marina A. Slepneva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Information And Communication

The introduction of information and communication technologies into the educational process began more than twenty years ago, along with the rapid spreading of computers around the world. However, not all educational institutions have supported the inclusion of information and communication technologies into the educational process for the above-mentioned quite a long period of time. Most likely, this was due to insufficient financial investments in modernization. In addition, insufficient attention was initially paid to training of teachers for working with digital technologies. At present, when information and communication competence has already been included into all international standards for teachers, it turned out that neither graduates from teacher training institutes nor teachers who have been working for already a long period of time have sufficient competencies for using digital technologies in practice. A comparative analysis of Russian and European professional standards for teachers is carried out, and the competencies they should possess are considered. Various versions of the information literacy definitions are given, which have undergone changes in the technological development process. Special attention is paid to the requirements for competencies of foreign language teachers in the field of digital technologies. The list of the currently available digital tools, including mobile devices, is discussed. The students actively use such technologies to learn languages, but to yield a really positive effect, digital tools should be integrated directly into the educational process in a professional manner. The experience of work with digital technologies gained by the teachers of the NRU MPEI Department of Foreign Languages is considered. A conclusion has been drawn, according to which a high level of information literacy enables teachers not only to change their own pedagogical methods, but also to open new horizons for their students, who, in turn, gain access to high quality education.

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