scholarly journals Experimental Efficiency Study of Project Technology as a Means of Formation Foreign Language Competence of Future Electric Power Engineers

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Nataliia Bilan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Non Parametric

The paper covers the ways of building foreign language competence of students majoring in electrical engineering in the process of their vocational training. The purpose of the article is the practical substantiation of the process of forming the future energy engineers’ foreign languagecompetence by means of project technology and carrying out diagnostic measures to check its effectiveness in foreign language learning. The methods used in this research are theoretical (analysis, comparison, systematization, generalization), empirical research methods (observations, surveys, pedagogical experiment), and statistical (non-parametric Pearson's criterion.). The results. The efficiency of project technology in the indicated process has been substantiated. A number of factors that determine the choice of such a learning technology has been specified, namely they are the following: student-oriented approach, foreign language learner autonomy, building project-oriented skills in specialty metalanguage, relationship between project work as a form of performing educational assignments and types of engineering activity. Author’s definition of project technology has been provided. By this notion a system of active and practical methods of learner-centered education aimed at programmed organization of students’ project activity, creation of educational projects that involve developing skills of independent knowledge acquisition, their practical handling, development of critical and creative thinking and key competences, is meant. The efficiency of project technology in the educational process has been experimentally verified by the example of developing foreign-language competence of students doing Master’s degree in electrical engineering. In order to determine the efficiency of project technology in the process of foreign language teaching to students in the master’s programme compared to traditional teaching methods, control groups and experimental groups with such attributes as reproductive properties, constructability and creativity were formed. Foreign language competence forming according to motivational, communication, professional, projecting and performance indicators was implemented in the process of executing profession-oriented projects. In order to assess the results of future power engineers’ project work, 100-point scale was developed. Conclusions. According to the results of the performed project work, it was determined that the level of foreign language competence in the experimental groups was higher than the one in the control groups. Generalized maturity indices of motivational, communication, professional, projecting and performance components in the control groups and in the experimental groups differed significantly. Group inhomogeneity and the significant differences were confirmed with the help of statistical non-parametric Pearson’s test χ². The obtained results of the pedagogical experiment have proved the efficiency of the suggested project technology and its rationale for implementing in the process of future electric power engineers’ foreign language teaching.

Project work as a tool for communicative competence development

10.12737/3590 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Марина Гозалова ◽  
Marina Gozalova
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Individual Contribution ◽  
Teaching Routine

The article focuses on research into project work as a learner’s activity contributing to the development and refinement of his / her communicative competence. The author states that, besides improving a learner’s linguistic competence and promoting his/her involvement with the learning process, project work favourably affects both communication standards and, more broadly, social behavior through providing ample room for cooperation, empathy, creativity, and individual contribution. Thus, embracing project work and making it part of the foreign language teaching routine will ensure that learners acquire communicative competence at a level that meets current requirements.

scholarly journals Results of Implementing Communicative Language Teaching Method in English Language Learning in 9-Year Elementary Schools. (Albanian Context)

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Evis Kapurani
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
The Impact

Theoretically Communicative Language Teaching Method (CLT) claims to be one of the best available foreign language teaching methods in teaching and learning foreign language in communication because it improves effectively not only communicative competence of students but also their language acquisition and its use in Albanian schools is an innovation. The purpose of this study is to analyze the results that the use of a contemporary interactive student-centered method has when it is used in learning a foreign language compared with traditional methods. This is an empirical study which includes control groups where traditional methods are used and experimental groups where CLT method is used based on a comparison between these methods for a period of 6 months. It is mainly focused on the implementation of CLT in Albanian 9-year elementary schools in learning English as a foreign language through communication and interaction compared with other traditional methods used. The study analyzes the impact, results and advantages of the use in practice of CLT method in Albanian 9-year elementary schools on sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades, its efficacy in learning, in foreign language acquisition and students performance in four language skills. It contains an analysis of theory versus practice use of CLT as a foreign language teaching method. The data about the implementation of CLT method in practice are collected from teachers and students in Albanian 9-year elementary schools through classroom observation and tests. Classroom observations are focused on finding how the teacher develops the lessons and if it is based on CLT principles on experimental groups and how students react during the lesson in comparison with control groups. Tests are used to compare students’ results on learning based on their grades in both groups. All results are converted into percentages. Findings are analyzed based on theoretical issues. The results show that using CLT is a successful method in both learning and teaching compared with other traditional methods.

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 Aktuelle Forschungsfragen der deutschsprachigen Phraseodidaktik

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erla Hallsteinsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Step Model

Phraseology in foreign language learning and teaching has been an object of linguistic and didactic research for almost 40 years. This article begins with an overview over phraseodidactic research in German. Then it discusses aspects of phraseology in teaching German as a foreign language, i.a. the influence of Kühn's three step model on phraseology in foreign language teaching and methods to define the phraseological units that are to be learned (phraseological minimum). Finally, it addresses a newer research approach: The question how multimodality affects the language competence and thereby also the learning of phraseology.

The use of project methods in foreign language teaching to students of linguistic programmes

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Irina S. Nikolaenko ◽  
Anna A. Pribytkova ◽  
Olga V. Pustovalova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Draft Version ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Technical Issues

The 2019 coronavirus pandemic had a significant impact on the development of new innovative methods and forms of foreign language teaching that can organize distance or blended learning of a foreign language and continue to develop students’ subcompetencies that are part of a foreign language communicative competence. The project method is one of the problem-based teaching methods aimed at enhancing the speech-thinking activity of students in the process of completing a number of tasks. Its unique characteristic lies in the fact that this method can be used both in classroom and in blended or distance learning. However, despite the fact that in the methodic literature there are many studies devoted to the development of specific methods of foreign language teaching (aspects of language and types of speech activity) through information and communication technologies, the researchers did not come to a consensus on what stages the project methods should include. In our work, based on the analysis of the methodic literature, we identify eight stages of organizing the project work of linguistic university students. These include: 1) goal setting; 2) discussion of technical issues of organizing design work; 3) search, collection and processing of the necessary information on the Internet; 4) work on the project; 5) feedback from the teacher and students; 6) work to improve the draft version of the project; 7) presentation of the project; 8) project evaluation. An analysis of some well-known methodic studies devoted to the organization of project work of pupils and students is given, as well as a detailed description of stages of teaching.

scholarly journals TRANSLATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-270
Author(s):  
Deja Piletić
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
University Courses ◽  
Positive Perspective ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University

There are different attitudes towards the use of translation in foreign language teaching, which are often split between two extremes. This paper will aim to present the positive views on the role of translation within language degrees in general, and in particular in those situations when there is a lack of nation-wide professional schools and university courses specialized in translator training. As a contribution to a positive perspective of pedagogical translation at university level, the paper will reveal the results of a survey conducted among the undergraduate students from the language departments at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Montenegro. The survey had a goal to find out about the students' views on the role of translation exercises in acquiring both language competence and translation competence.

scholarly journals An Iranian View on Linguistic Competence in Using a Foreign Language

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2 (9)) ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Karo Karapetyan ◽  
Heidar Nargesy
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
The World ◽  
Language Courses

Throughout the recent three decades no major changes have been observed in the Iranian educational curricula and textbooks of foreign language teaching. Nor has there been any significant change in the teaching methods while numerous reforms can be traced in the field of foreign language teaching in the world. The current research attempts to study various aspects of language competence of several graduates of secondary schools who have not taken language courses in private institutions. The research aims to find out the capacity of the academic educational system of Iran to teach students English appropriately.

scholarly journals FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING TO LINGUISTICALLY GIFTED STUDENTS: COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-398
Author(s):  
Gulnara V. Gali ◽  
Anastasiya V. Fakhrutdinova ◽  
Askar I. Gali
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Directions

Purpose of the Study: The urgency of the problem under investigation is due to the fact that the issue of gifted students’ education is one of the most difficult and interesting aspects of contemporary pedagogy. The purpose of the article is to comprehensively characterize the components of foreign language teaching to linguistically gifted students. Methodology: New directions of teaching linguistically gifted students of non-linguistic directions, based on the communicative and personal-activity approach, are analyzed. Results: In this article, the concept of foreign language competence of students is defined and the content, forms, methods and means of pedagogical interaction in the process of foreign language teaching to gifted students are considered. The authors pay special attention to foreign language teaching to linguistically gifted students. Applications: The materials of the article can be useful for teachers, students and a wide range of readers interested in the problems of gifted students’ education.

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