scholarly journals The role of authentic material as a means of developing students’ competence in foreign language lessons

Author(s):  
G.S. Sabantayeva ◽  

The article discusses current issues of using authentic video materials to form communicative competence of students. The author describes linguistic, sociological, discursive, and socio-cultural components in the structure of communicative competence. The article considers communication barriers and their influence on the communication process. Also, it highlights criteria and indicators of the process of forming socio-cultural competence. The author considers the criteria of authenticity from the point of view of linguistic authors. The author describes the value and role of information and communication technologies in teaching a business foreign language. There is given the characteristic of authentic video material as the most effective way of forming and developing the socio-cultural competence of students. There are formulated the main tasks that are considered in the learning process when using authentic video materials.

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (13) ◽  
pp. 1921-1932
Author(s):  
Laura Soledad Norton

The purpose of this paper is to offer some critical comments about the collected articles, by introducing a point of view inspired by cultural psychology concerning information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) research issues. This conception of ICTs highlights three fundamental aspects: the role of artifacts in mediating action that are culturally meaningful; the agency of people, and thus their responsibility as social actors; and the need for highly contextualized analysis. In the article, I will read these three points through the lenses of cultural psychology.


Author(s):  
O. L. Tytun ◽  
A. P. Boichuk ◽  
H. M. Sivkovych

The article deals with the problem of teaching students of Design and Fine Arts to write texts for professional purposes. The authors consider modern methods and activities for teaching writing. The authors underline the role of writing in teaching a foreign language that has gradually increased and considered as a reserve for improving the efficiency of teaching a foreign language. Stress is done on the importance for every educated modern person to produce different kinds of written texts for professional purposes. Modern advances in the field of information and communication technologies and the enormous popularity of using various social networks changed the attitude to writing. The importance of using information and communication technologies in teaching writing is considered. The authors suggest the following activities for improving and developing the acquired at school skills for writing texts. To improve the skills of writing annotations exercises are recommended. Activities for writing reports on videos are suggested. To master the skills of describing photos or paintings it is recommended to visit some sites. The authors recommend to make presentations on the given subjects. All the activities were successfully tested at English classes.


2020 ◽  
pp. 172-178
Author(s):  
Lyubov K. Orlova

The article considers the intensification of the process of a foreign language communicative competence formation with the help of computer games. The author emphasizes the advantages of computer games use as one of the types of information and communication technologies to achieve the modern goals of foreign language teaching in the conditions of the society informatization. Special attention is paid to the creative potential of computer games use in the process of foreign language studying. The article sets and describes some genres of computer games that are recommended for use in order to form a foreign language communicative competence in the combination of all its components. The author gives some recommendations for learners on studying a foreign language with the help of computer games. Thus, the purposeful use of computer games in teaching foreign languages helps to create appropriate psychological and pedagogical conditions for increasing the level of a foreign language communicative competence formation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-111
Author(s):  
Anna Shevchuk

The paper investigates the peculiarities of teaching foreign languages by means of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In the course of a comprehensive study the most effective for the development of students’ linguistic and communicative competence, the following types of ICT were singled out and analysed: Internet-based project work, online correspondence by e-mail, chat, blogs, wikis and podcasts and training programs. The aim of the article is to identify the peculiarities of teaching foreign languages by means of ICT The theoretical, empirical and statistical methods have been used to reach the purpose. To check the effectiveness of applying ICT in teaching foreign languages empirical (diagnostic) methods such as testing, observation and discussion were used. The pedagogical experiment with the fourth-year students of Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics was conducted. The pedagogical experiment showed the effectiveness of developing foreign language activity by means of ICT. The statistical methods helped to evaluate the results of the research. Using ICT is really helpful to increase students’ language competencies and, respectively, it provides the development of foreign language communicative competence in general. Conclusion: ICT creates a new environment and opportunities for foreign language acquisition; they have become an important educational tool successfully used in foreign language teaching.


Author(s):  
Сергій Галецький ◽  

The purpose of the article is to determine the structure of communicative competence of future foreign language teachers. In the process of research, a number of methods was used, among which: analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, comparison, monographic method, abstraction. The article substantiates the need to structure the communicative competence of future teachers of foreign languages, highlights the main factors: 1) competence as a scientific and pedagogical category; 2) competence in general and communicative competence in particular are evaluative categories; 3) foreign language communicative competence requires comparative analysis within its structure. The peculiarities of the classifications of competencies offered by different scientists in relation to different areas of training are considered. The analysis of scientific sources on the problem of structuring the communicative competence of future specialists is carried out. The structure of communicative competence of future foreign language teachers is presented in the set of the following components: purposeful, which reflects the level of students’ interest in further growth of their level of communicative competence, on the one hand, and motivated mastery of modern information and communication technologies; cognitive-linguistic component, which is represented by a set of systematic knowledge of a foreign language and methods of its teaching, as well as a course in psychology and pedagogy of higher education; procedural and technological, which allows, on the one hand, development of communicative skills in the field of foreign language communication and teaching foreign languages, on the other – skills and abilities to use modern ICT in the process of learning (and further teaching) foreign languages; reflexive-evaluative, which involves the ability to assess the level of formation of communicative competence of future teachers of foreign languages with the use of modern information and communication technologies, and to implement their own reflection of these processes. The identified and described components of communicative competence are correlated with the list of professional competencies of the specified specialist. We see the prospects for further research in the development and implementation in the practice of higher education institutions of the model of formation of communicative competence of future teachers of foreign languages.


TEM Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1213-1220
Author(s):  
Vasyl Yahupov ◽  
Olha Zastelo ◽  
Valentyna Svystun ◽  
Nataliia Korchynska ◽  
Olena Chorna ◽  
...  

The article is dedicated to the problem of foreign language teachers' diagnostic competence development. It reveals the problematic issues connected with the obtaining integral estimates of students' foreign language communicative competence formation levels. The study presents a technology of integrated assessment based on the recent mathematical and statistical methods realized with the help of information and communication technologies. The first experiment proves the technology contributes to the accuracy and reliability of integral estimates by 9,1%. The second one assures that training teachers to use the technology improves their levels of diagnostic competence by 21,9% in average.


Author(s):  
Э. Д. Алисултанова ◽  
М. З. Исаева ◽  
Д. У. Болтиев

В образовательном сообществе резко возросло использование информационных и коммуникационных технологий (ИКТ) в преподавании и изучении иностранных языков. Учителя получают доступ к инновациям и внедряют их, не всегда осознавая их значение для самих себя и своих учеников. В статье представлены некоторые особенности ИКТ, которые можно использовать учебной среде, а также использование видео в качестве инструмента ИКТ на уроках иностранного языка. В данной статье также обсуждается роль учителя во внедрении технологий, именно учитель, а не технология, определяет качество обучения и преподавания. Роль учителя будет поставлена под угрозу, если мы интегрируем информационно-коммуникационные технологии в образование; однако в «техно-гуманистической» системе, учитель, ученики и технологии образуют прочный и значимый союз. The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning foreign languages has increased dramatically in the educational community. Teachers gain access to innovations and implement them, not always realizing their importance for themselves and their students. The article presents some of the ICT features that can be used in a learning environment, as well as the use of video as an ICT tool in foreign language lessons. This article also discusses the role of the teacher in the implementation of technology, it is the teacher, not technology, that determines the quality of teaching and learning. The role of the teacher will be compromised if we integrate information and communication technologies into education; however, in a “techno-humanistic” system, teacher, students and technology form a strong and meaningful union.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
I.I. Burlakova

Socio-cultural competence is one of the components of foreign language communicative competence. Its content includes socio-cultural knowledge, communication experience, personal attitude to the facts of foreign language culture and knowledge of the ways of language using. The lack of readiness of social competence can become the cause of socio-cultural errors. The formation of socio-cultural competence is a purposeful process with the use of modern technologies (cases, critical thinking technology, project activities, interactive technologies, game technologies, information and communication technologies), which significantly increase the interest of students in foreign language communication and expand knowledge about the country of the studied language.


Author(s):  
Veronika Kaplanova

This article deals with the possibilities of using selected activating methods and organizational forms of teaching in the context of the use of information and communication technologies. Activating methods are analysed from the theoretical point of view, especially with regard to problem solving, constructing new knowledge, acquiring communication and intercultural competence, motivation, cooperation and the development of the pupil's personality. It also describes their advantages and disadvantages or limits. Additionally, the article presents practical examples useful for lessons of Russian as a foreign language.


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