scholarly journals Polymodal exercise as a means for the formation of a professionally oriented communicative competence of students at an institution of non-linguistic higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-218
Author(s):  
Aleksandra A. Kirillovykh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Adaptive Potential ◽  
Speech Activity ◽  
The Past

The paper actualizes the problem of finding an effective means for the formation of a professionally oriented communicative competence, which today acts as a goal-result of foreign language education at non-linguistic universities. Analysis of works on the problem over the past few decades has shown that most often one or another technology is considered to be means for the formation of this competence, specially modelled for a specialisation, taking into account certain conditions of the educational environment, and also giving priority to one or more types of speech activity, and therefore possessing a weak adaptive and competency-developing ability. In this connection, the purpose of this article was to present an upgradable polymodal exercise as a more universal and competency-oriented means and to substantiate the expediency of its use in professionally oriented foreign language education at non-linguistic universities. In the course of this study, a model of such an exercise was presented, its definition was formulated, and psychological, pedagogic and methodological points were identified that determine the appropriateness of its use for the formation of professionally oriented communicative competence among students at a non-linguistic university. In conclusion, it is concluded that the upgradable polymodal exercise has a high adaptive potential, serves to intensify and optimise foreign language education, and, therefore, can become an effective means of achieving the expected results.

Reexamining the priorities of the National Standards for Foreign Language Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Sieloff Magnan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
National Standards ◽  
The Past ◽  
Five Cs

The National Standards for Foreign Language Education offer goals for student learning. During the past decade, they have been used increasingly as objectives for foreign language teaching. In the Standards document, the five Standards are presented in a hierarchical order: 1. Communication, 2. Cultures, 3. Connections, 4. Comparisons, and 5. Communities. Looking to Dell Hymes's portrayal of communicative competence and building on notions from sociocultural theory and the concept communities of practice, this paper questions this hierarchical ordering especially in terms of the primacy of Communication over Cultures and Communities. It is suggested that, of the five Cs, Communities should be considered the most fundamental.

scholarly journals ICC Nurturing Strategies in the Context of Sino-foreign Institutes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1072-1079
Author(s):  
Xiaomei Zhu ◽  
Anwei Feng
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Higher Education In China ◽  
Education In China ◽  
Development Of Students

This paper discusses intercultural communicative competence (ICC) education in the context of Sino-Foreign Institutes (SFIs). Through an overview of the development of internationalization of higher education in China, the paper puts forward four strategies that are widely adopted to facilitate the development of students ICC. The four strategies are provision of ICC specific courses, integration of ICC in subject courses, integration of ICC with foreign language education, and intercultural activities and projects. Towards the end, the paper argues that more empirical research is needed to evaluate the effects of the strategies on students’ ICC and challenges the SFIs face in the post-pandemic era.

Case method in the students’ university foreign language education

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Roman A. Danilin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Case Method ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Speech Activity ◽  
Analytical Skills ◽  
History Of

The case method is one of the methods of problem learning, which allows, based on the description of the problem, to organize the learning process in order to develop a number of universal skills and foreign language speech skills of students. The history of the case method, the typology of cases, the didactic and linguodidactic potential of the case method are described. Based on the analysis of scientific literature, we distinguish the following typological features: a) the complexity of the case; b) the purpose and objectives of the case; c) the degree of structuredness; d) the volume of the case; e) the presence of the plot; f) temporary space; g) subjectivity; h) dominant type of activity; i) subject-content area; j) the number of participants; k) language of the project. The work describes in detail the types of cases for each type. The case method has a didactic potential, allowing to develop analytical skills, critical thinking, professional creative thinking, practical skills, communication skills, social and reflexive skills. When teaching a foreign language on the basis of foreign language cases of a general cultural or professionally oriented direction, students will be able to develop productive (speaking and writing) and receptive (listening and reading) types of speech activity. A nomenclature of speech skills developed in the process of using the case method for each type of speech activity is presented.

Moscow megapolis as an educational environment in the system of intercultural foreign language education

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
V.A. Goncharova ◽  
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V.V. Alpatov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
The Social

Substantiated is the thesis for necessity and possibility of using the social cultural resources of Moscow city to establish an educational environment suitable for building intercultural communicative competence when teaching students foreign languages from the perspective of the intercultural approach. As a key point, the authors put forward the thesis that it is regional culture which is the only one available to the student to abide and understand by their national native culture (which comes equal with learning a foreign language culture within the goal-setting of intercultural foreign language education). At the same time, Moscow is grounded as a resource space for intercultural foreign language education, being a place for building the social environment and communication relations, the center of the regional level of native culture, and the city of intercultural communication. The authors define the related educational urbanistics as interdisciplinary field of designing socio-humanitarian knowledge and experience in the context of the mutually enriching integration of urban space and value-specific (educational) trajectories of personal development of the citizen. As a result, the authors formulate the basic principles of urban educational environment in the context of foreign language intercultural communicative training of students, including the following: knowledge of the universal (global) through the single (local), methodological work with space as a resource and a factor in educational activity design, taking an educational environment as an individually perceived value, designing individual educational trajectory on the basis of mapping, contextual learning, the priority of spontaneous meaning-making, a conscious distinction between education and vocational training.

Research in foreign language education in Hungary (2006–2012)

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Péter Medgyes ◽  
Marianne Nikolov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Fertile Ground

In the past quarter century, Hungary has offered fertile ground for innovative developments in foreign language (FL) education. The appropriate, albeit disparaging, label applied to Hungary in the mid-1970s – ‘a land of foreign language illiterates’ (Köllő 1978: 6) – no longer applies. In the wake of the dramatic changes of 1989, the number of FL speakers rose quite rapidly. As a beneficial side-effect, applied linguistic and language education research, areas which used to be relegated to the lowest rung of the academic ladder, began to be recognised as legitimate fields of scientific inquiry, offering young researchers the opportunity to embark on an academic career. As a result, Hungarian authors are now regular contributors to distinguished journals, and researchers from Hungary are welcome speakers at international conferences.However, Hungarian authors often choose to publish their research studies in local journals and volumes which are not easily accessible to the international research community, especially if written in Hungarian. The aim of this review, therefore, is to give an overview of such studies to demonstrate the breadth and depth of recent research conducted in Hungary.

scholarly journals Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): present and future (as a Finnish innovation)

2021 ◽  
Vol IX(256) (100) ◽  
pp. 34-38
Author(s):  
K. Ye. Stupak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Specialized Schools

The paper considers Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) as one of the approaches to achieve the purpose of learning foreign languages, represented in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages adopted by the Council of Europe in 2001. To acquire a language means not merely to obtain communication skills in one, two or even three languages, studied separately, but “to develop a linguistic repertoire in which all language skills are present,” as mentioned in the European Recommendations on Language Education. People who possess even little knowledge can achieve a certain level of communication proficiency using all their linguistic “tools”, experimenting with alternative forms of expression in different languages and dialects, using paralinguistic means (mimics, gestures, facial expressions, etc.) and radically simplifying their use of language [1; P. 19]. Researchers in Finland, whose success in the education system is recognized worldwide, are searching for methods and approaches to achieve this purpose of foreign language education. One of their attempts is Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). The paper reveals: the history and the origins of CLIL. According to C. Nieminen it includes the method of immersion, created and widely used in Canada. This research also outlines the advantages and factors limiting the usage of CLIL, as well as the prospects for further implementation of this approach to the study of foreign languages in different countries. In Ukraine this training method has not yet become widely applied, only some cases of CLIL implementation take place in specialized schools and in higher education institutions at foreign language departments. Therefore, according to national scholars Ukraine focuses on improving the level of foreign language proficiency, profound research and implementation of the CLIL methodology in schools and higher education institutions all over the country.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SYSTEM OF FORMING FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Iryna Pinchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers

Ensuring quality training for qualified teachers is one of the priorities of national education. The purpose of this article is to analyse and systematize the conditions for the formation of foreign language communicative competence, which make it possible to implement the aims of reforming and modernizing the professional training of future primary school teachers. An important component of ensuring the practical implementation of the professional training for future primary school teachers is to determine the organizational and methodological conditions that help increase the levels of the above-mentioned competence, indicated in the article. During the survey, experts were asked to rank 18 specific organizational and methodological conditions aimed at forming foreign language communicative competence. The study revealed certain organizational and methodological conditions: 1) creating a foreign language professionally oriented interactive educational environment as a means of increasing the motivation of foreign languages professional training; 2) interdisciplinary integration of foreign language education content based on the systematic updating and modernization of future primary school teachers’ professional training; 3) activation of students’ foreign language communicative activity by developing critical and creative thinking; 4) ensuring the constant foreign language support for pedagogical practices. According to the first condition, the process of forming a foreign language communicative competence is based on the immersion of students in an interactive foreign language environment, individualization of training through academic counselling (training), mentoring, and tutoring. The development of international relations and cooperation of the university in the context of integration into the global and European educational environment is one of the components encouraging the creation of a professionally oriented foreign language interactive educational environment. The second condition provides for the interdisciplinary integration of the foreign language education content on the basis of systematic updating and modernization of professional training for future primary school teachers, the implementation of interdisciplinary links within the cycles of general and professional training by deepening and systematizing foreign language knowledge. In order to intensify the foreign language communicative activity of students in a foreign language, a systematic, critical and creative thinking of future specialists was developed through the use of problem learning, innovative active and interactive technologies of collaboration, methods, techniques and group forms of organizing activities; thanks to the optimal combination of verbal and computer means of professional communication in a foreign language based on blended learning technology and the widespread use of ICT. Ensuring a continuous foreign language support for pedagogical practices was carried out by enriching the pedagogical practices program with the tasks aimed at forming the foreign language communicative competence of future primary school teachers.

scholarly journals WAYS OF FORMATION OF STATEMENTS IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE// International Journal of Educational and Scientific Research 4(12), 2021/ Chief Editor K. Kumpulainen /OEAPS OU - Tallinn, Estonia (Open European Academy of Public Sciences). Vienna, Austria 30.04.2021: OEAPS OU., 2021. P. 21-24.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulzhamilya Bibatyrovna Serikbayeva ◽  
Zhanna Borisovna Erzhanova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Methodological Principles

The purpose of the article is to offer a solution to the problem of development of communicative competence of students of non – linguistic faculties. The importance of establishing common goals and objectives by both sides of the educational process is shown. The problems faced by teachers and students in teaching a foreign language due to the lack of understanding of the structure of the studied language by students, their inability to develop an algorithm for the formation of foreign language statements. The importance of developing students ‘ strategic thinking in learning a foreign language is demonstrated. The General methodological principles underlying the tasks and exercises on the formation of the functional structural model of the studied language in the minds of students are formulated. The assessment of the state of foreign language education at the present stage is given. The necessity of changes in the guidelines for teaching students of creative specialties to obtain the expected results is proved. The main scientific result is the authors ‘ proposal on the formation of communicative competence through the development of existential and strategic competencies, as well as the development of an algorithm for the assimilation of knowledge about the structure of the studied language and their application in speech activity.

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