scholarly journals Academic Writing in English in the Structure of Higher Education in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
E. I. Shpit ◽  
V. N. Kurovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Favorable Conditions

Intensification of research work at engineering universities of Russian Federation leads to the increase of publication activity of graduate and PhD students in high-impact English language journals. However, the level of academic writing skills still remains rather low. On one hand, it results from the fact that the majority of applicants to engineering institutions have only basic knowledge of a foreign language. On the other hand, the curriculums of most Russian universities do not include developing academic writing skills as a stand-alone discipline or a part of the “Foreign Language” discipline. This paper aims at considering the main constituents of academic writing in a foreign language, such as the current state policy in higher education, the content of academic writing for engineering specialties, the publication process participants, the available resources for developing and improving the required skills in the realities of university language education; as well as identifying the external factors which create favorable conditions for developing academic writing skills of engineering students.

scholarly journals INNOVATIVE PRINCIPLES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AT NON-SPECIAL FACULTIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-136
Author(s):  
Ivan Rusnak ◽  
Maryna Vasylyk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
English Language ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Multimedia Technologies

The article substantiates the relevance of improving the quality of foreign language education of graduates of higher education institutions of non-special faculties as a means of their professional mobility in the domestic and world labor market and intercultural communication in modern globalized world. It is focused on ensuring the innovative development of its teaching methods, the introduction of modern technologies, bringing the learning process in line with world and European requirements.The classification of teaching methods in pedagogical science is considered, among which the classification of A. Beliaev, based on the active interaction of subjects of the educational process, is determined as the most appropriate for mastering a foreign language.The most effective didactic methods (project method, method of “brainstorming”, method of business and didactic games) are described. They are applied in learning English at non-special faculties and specific examples of their use in classes both in the classroom and outside it, in real professional and life situations.The peculiarities of using modern information and multimedia technologies in teaching English and innovative approaches in the formation of skills and abilities in reading, writing, communicative competencies are highlighted. The didactic possibilities of electronic platforms MOODLE and Pearson in proficiency in English are revealed.It was found that the expansion of interstate ties, integration into Europe, adherence to world values and the process of globalization has increased the opportunities for contacts with native speakers. Therefore, the study of a foreign language in higher school acquires practical significance, and the communicative function of the language plays a major role in the process of expressing feelings, judgments and assimilation of information and knowledge presented in any form. Keywords: English language, innovative principles, teaching methods, information technologies, multimedia technologies, non-special faculties, educational applicants, communicative competences, institutions of higher education, educational process.

scholarly journals Content of training in cross-cultural interaction of post-graduate law students by means of the English language

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-95
Author(s):  
Galina I. Zhelezovskaya ◽  
◽  
Sergey P. Khizhnyak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Educational Standard ◽  
State Educational

The article is devoted to the problem of education content that is significant for modern pedagogical theory. It is written using teaching English to postgraduate students at Saratov State Law Academy as an example. A foreign language for postgraduate students in higher education institutions has always been associated with the postgraduate students’ major in which they carried out scientific research. However, during the last decade, postgraduate studies have become the third level of higher education, and postgraduate students, who complete the course of study, receive a comprehensive qualification “Researcher. Teacher-researcher”. Therefore, the content of foreign language education should be expanded due to the need for postgraduate students to acquire knowledge, habits and professional communication skills not only in the field of legal specialization, but also in the sphere of pedagogical activity. At the same time, the presence of general legal terms and terminological systems belonging to various branches of law and expressing special systems of theoretical concepts suggests the need to include even more sections in the syllabi. All the three areas involve teaching a foreign language in the context of cross-cultural communication for mastering universal competencies specified in the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education in the direction of training 40.06.01 – Law (the level of training highly qualified specialists).

scholarly journals CORPORATIVE RESEARCH WORK OF STUDENTS OF A LANGUAGE UNIVERSITY IN THE CONTEXT OF DISTANCE LEARNING

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(80)) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
U. Adilzhanova ◽  
D. Dzhussubaliyeva
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The article deals with the problems of conducting joint (corporate) research work of students in the context of distance learning. Considered the theoretical and practical significance of students' research activities using digital technology for foreign language education. Also the article describes the processes of learning using digital technologies and how to provide favorable conditions for students when conducting research work online. Shown the possibility of students' work coperatively and remotely. 

Getting published: achieving acceptance from reviewers and editors

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Paul Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Academic English ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Writing Problems ◽  
Language Research

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding how to successfully develop, write up and get research work accepted and published in an English language business research journal. Design/methodology/approach – A review of good basics in writing, producing good scholarly academic writing, presentation of papers that are in a style that is proper for academic English language journals and how to avoid common writing problems and mistakes. Findings – Getting research work published requires persistence, people and progress. One must have persistence in seriously approaching and improving one’s research work. Researchers need to involve a network of people (conference attendees, people who understand the area, reviewers and editors) to develop good research. Research should lead to progress in our understanding of the way the world works. Practical implications – This paper helps authors readily bring their research to publishable quality in English language research journals by reducing pitfalls to authors writing in English as a foreign language. Originality/value – By providing not only sound practical advice, and how to avoid potential errors, the paper also provides graphic diagrams and a checklist for research writing that will aid authors writing in English as a foreign language in readily bringing their research to publishable quality in English language research journals.

scholarly journals An analysis on the complications faced by scholars for writing a research paper in English language

2021 ◽  
pp. 108-123
Author(s):  
HARITHA T
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Cognitive Knowledge ◽  
The University

Victori, M. (1999).English has been the language of choice for many international scholarly journals. Academic writing is intricate, square, objective, explicit, enclosed, and responsible. This article analyzes how different beliefs or Meta cognitive knowledge (MK) about writing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing skills. Data gathered from four undergraduate university Spanish students, two good and poor writers, registered in EFL classes at the University of Barcelona.

scholarly journals DESIGNING ICT COMPETENCES – INTEGRATED SYLLABUSES OF WRITING COURSES (DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT STUDY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM SYLLABUSES)

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
Syarifah Syifa ◽  
Darmahusni
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
English Language Education ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Writing Courses ◽  
Education Study

The development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has greatly affected the field of education. ICT allow for a higher quality lessons through collaboration with teachers in planning and preparing resources. ICT also develop some writing skills: spelling, grammar, punctuation, editing and re-drafting. ICTs appear as a strategy to improve learners’ difficulties and provide students’ growth in the writing skills. Therefore, this research aims to design ICT competences – integrated writing syllabuses for English Language Education Study Program (ELESP) by analyzing the existing writing syllabuses from five universities in Indonesia. The analysis involved the ICT Competences proposed by UNESCO, Digital Media Descriptors of English Profiling Grid (EPG) and other ICT based – theories. The researcher employed Design and Development Research (DDR) as a research design and qualitative research as the research method. The used stages of DDR in this study are conducted need analysis; stating the objectives, developing the preliminary syllabus, evaluate the preliminary syllabus and revising a syllabus prototype. The data sources of this research are 14 existing syllabuses of writing courses of undergraduate English Language Education Study Program. The result of the research revealed that the ICT competences are mostly integrated in the component of Teaching Method and Media in the syllabuses. The highest level of ICT competences applied in the existing syllabus is Knowledge Deepening level. Although, the integration or infusion of ICT competences were explicit and implicit mentioned in the syllabuses of writing subjects. The research then provide the procedure of ICT integration and the design the ICT competences integrated – writing syllabuses; Basic Writing, Professional Writing, Creative Writing, and Academic Writing. The proposed syllabus implemented the skill-based syllabus. Keywords: ICT Competences, Writing Skills, Syllabus Design, DDR, ICT UNESCO Framework

Can-Do descriptors – Realigning English Language Curriculum at Higher Education Institution to CEFR

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Erda Wati Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
The Common ◽  
The University

The Common European Framework of Reference for Language (CEFR) has become the standard used to describe and evaluate students’ command of a second or foreign language. It is an internationally acknowledged standard language proficiency framework which many countries have adopted such as China, Thailand, Japan and Taiwan. Malaysia Ministry of Education is aware and realise the need for the current English language curriculum to be validated as to reach the international standard as prescribed by the CEFR. The implementation of CEFR has begun at primary and secondary level since 2017 and now higher education institutions are urged to align their English Language Curriculum to CEFR as part of preparation in receiving students who have been taught using CEFR-aligned curriculum at schools by year 2022. This critical reflection article elucidates the meticulous processes that we have embarked on in re-aligning our English Language Curriculum to the standard and requirements of CEFR. The paper concludes with a remark that the alignment of the English curriculum at the university needs full support from the management in ensuring that all the stakeholders are fully prepared, informed and familiar with the framework.

Institutional Plagiarism Policy (Georgian higher education institutions’ case)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natela DOGHONADZE ◽  
Ekaterine PIPIA ◽  
Nikoloz PARJANADZE
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Copyright Violation ◽  
University Policies

The article deals with various aspects of plagiarism: definition (discriminating it from cheating and copyright violation), types (intended / unintended), involved people, causes, prevention, detection and punishment of plagiarism. A survey (questionnaire containing 42 items to be assessed in a 5-point Likert scale and one open- ended item) was conducted in Georgia. The questionnaire developed based on the literature review was uploaded on social media in three variants (to analyze the results separately and compare them): for students, for researchers and for assessors. The obtained results revealed that the opinions of the three groups of respondents differed to a certain degree, but were quite similar, eventually. The survey disclosed the existing problems, such as: lack of academic writing (in the native and especially foreign language) and research skills, lack of training in avoiding plagiarism, insufficiently clear university policies in the area, the emphasis on punishment instead of prevention, etc. Based on the obtained results recommendations for universities are given concerning plagiarism policies. 

The Pedagogy of English Language Teaching using CBSE Methodologies for schools.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-193
Author(s):  
Huma Hyder
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
National Development ◽  
Language Education ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
School Level ◽  
Education Policies

Progressive Globalization established the necessity of workforce to possess excellent communication skills in multiple languages. Areas such as tourism, trade, media, technology, science, and others use common languages. However, countries like China, South Korea, and so forth discussed the need to teach one foreign language at primary as well as secondary school level and hence developed education policies that focused on teaching English as a foreign language or second language. Some countries like Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and India already have English language as a second official language. Hence, English Language Education was considered as second foreign language which was accepted and now it is considered as a symbol of aspiring quality education in a national as well as international perspective. In 21st century, English is considered as an international link language which is been widely accepted by people across the world. Although, English language has a historical heritage of British Empire, it is best used to develop an individual’s cultural, technological, scientific and material needs that competes with the society. It is believed that language learning is not just acquiring the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Language learning is also about the language competence and the ways communicative competence has been applied in an integrated manner. English language learning is not just an educational issue, it also addresses the issues of the society, national development, and personal advancement. In the present scenario, English Language acquired an inclusive place in most of the societies, especially in India. As a result, English Medium Schools have gained immense popularity which responds to aspiration of the people. This paper tries to present the significance of English as a Second language. The main purpose of this paper is to explore the significant pedagogies or methodologies used in schools to teach English as English language plays a crucial role in the education sector.

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