The Effect of Using Digital Stories in Teaching English as a Second Language

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-208
Author(s):  
Fatma Gizem Karaoglan Yilmaz ◽  
Busra Koseoglu ◽  
Cansu Ayvali ◽  
Tugba Ozturk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
State University ◽  
Digital Stories ◽  
Motivation And Learning ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Development Of Students

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of using digital storytelling on motivation and learning strategies in foreign language teaching. This study was conducted with 20 students enrolled in the preparatory class to learn English as a foreign language for a year in 2018-2019 academic year in a state university in Turkey. Motivation scale and learning strategies scale were used to obtain data. According to the result, there was no significant distinction between digital storytelling and the use of learning strategies in foreign language teaching. This study indicates that the use of digital storytelling in foreign language teaching had no effect on the development of students' use of learning strategies.

Pedagogical conditions for professional foreign language teaching to students of “Agricultural Engineering” programme based on the model of content and language integrated learning

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Baydikova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Agricultural Engineering ◽  
Grouping Students ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Engineering Programme ◽  
Development Of Students

Currently, content and language integrated learning is becoming more widespread in the teaching of agrarian university students. For university pedagogy, this is a fairly new and innovative approach aimed at achieving two goals at the same time: 1) the further development of students’ foreign language communicative competence; 2) the further development of professional competencies by means of a foreign language. The dual purpose testifies to the fact that with this approach, a foreign language is both the teaching goal and a mean of professional development of students. However, the effectiveness of the teaching methods will depend on the consideration of a number of pedagogical conditions. In this work we identify and substantiate six pedagogical conditions, the consideration of which, when developing the appropriate teaching methods, will contribute to the effectiveness of the process of professional foreign language teaching in an agrarian university students of the “Agricultural Engineering” programme. These conditions include: a) the selection of subject content of teaching is carried out on the basis of the implementation of intersubject communications reliance principle; b) in the learning process, problem speech tasks are used, as well as tasks that reflect the specifics of the students’ future professional activities; c) the minimum level of foreign language proficiency by students is B1-B2; d) grouping students by level of knowledge of a foreign language; e) grouping students according to their study profiles within the framework of the programme; f) the competence of the teacher in the field of foreign language, profile specialty and methods of teaching them. The work describes in detail each of the selected conditions.

Message from Editor

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. I
Author(s):  
Jesus Laborda Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Related Field ◽  
Efl Learners

Dear Readers,It is a great honor for us to publish 8th volume, 4th issue of Global Journal of Foreign LanguageTeaching (GJFLT).Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (GJFLT) welcomes original empirical investigations andcomprehensive literature review articles focusing on foreign language teaching and topics related tolinguistics. The journal is an international journal published quarterly and it is a platform forpresenting and discussing the emerging developments in foreign language teaching in aninternational arena.A total number of eleven (11) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has beensubjected to double-blind peer review process by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At theend of the review process, a total number of five (5) high quality research papers were selected andaccepted for publication.Aim of this issue is to give the researchers an opportunity to share the results of their academicstudies. There are different research topics discussed in the articles. For example, SeyedehMaryam Mousavi, Laya Heidari Darani, Effect of collocations on Iranian EFL learners’ writing:Attitude in focus, Anteneh Kebede Lakew, Words: Are we really teaching them? The case of twoEFL teachers in Ethiopia, Jeannette Valencia Robles, Current perspectives of teaching Englishthrough affective learning strategies, Özgür Çelik, A Review of Research on the Effect of the Useof Web-based Tools on Speaking Motivation, Shahram Alipour, The Effect of Engagement inSocial Networking Application on Iranian EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate in English.The topics of the next issue will be different. We are trying to serve you with our journal with a richknowledge through which different kinds of topics will be discussed in 2018 issues.We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.Best regards,Prof. Jesus Laborda GarciaEditor – in Chief

scholarly journals Digital educational media in foreign language teaching and learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 12018
Author(s):  
Svetlana Kodrle ◽  
Anna Savchenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
State University ◽  
Educational Media ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Definition Of

The article considers the ways of exploiting digital educational media in foreign language teaching at Kuban State University. The authors propose a comprehensive definition of digital educational media, which is an umbrella term for Internet-based media, computer-based media and mobile media used for educational purposes. The digital educational media exploited in foreign language teaching are classified into narrative, interactive, adaptive, communicative and productive according to the function they fulfil and the learning experience they support. The article outlines effective ways of incorporating podcasting, multimedia presentations, digital storytelling and other Internet-based media in foreign language teaching. The authors demonstrate that the ways modern media are applied in teaching English are determined by the teacher and depend on the learning objectives. The findings indicate that modern media can be effectively exploited for curricular purposes and assist in developing both foreign language skills and general learning skills. The research done shows that integration of media education and foreign language teaching proves to be the most promising innovative educational technology employed in modern universities today.

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 TEACHING TECHNOLOGIES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-97
Author(s):  
Y. KOZACHENKO
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Research Activities

The article identifies the main learning technologies used to teach students in higher medical education. Learning technologies have been found to help improve the learning process and improve learning outcomes. The main learning technologies used in working with students of higher medical educational institutions are analyzed. It is investigated that learning technologies influence the teaching of foreign languages. It was found that the use of research, simulation, information, problem-based learning and heuristic are common and used in foreign language teaching. It is concluded that for the effective use of technology it is important to pay attention to what technology may be suitable for each individual student group. The use of modern teaching aids is part of information and communication technology. It is this technology that reveals the full range of ICT applications. Search technologies allow to actively involve students in research activities due to motivation to learn a foreign language and search for new resources and sources of information. Heuristic technology is one of the most used today, it allows to involve all students in active interaction in the classroom, to make associations between clinical disciplines and English and to be as ready as possible for interactive tasks. Simulation and dialogue technologies give students the opportunity to feel like real doctors, gain experience in communication in different situations and develop their communication skills. In the future, we plan to explore learning strategies that should be used in foreign language classes.

scholarly journals Nominative – Communicative Research on Teaching Word-Formation

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 7638-7640
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Research On Teaching ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Communicative Approach ◽  
Creative Subject ◽  
Development Of Students

This article studies the communicative approach which has been holding a leading position in the field of theory and methodology of foreign language teaching for several years. Why is the communicative approach so popular? The communicative approach of foreign language teaching focuses on the subject-to-subject scheme of communication, that is, the student acts as an active, creative subject of educational activities controlled by the teacher; it promotes the development of students’ creativity and their ability to creative search.

scholarly journals Method of introducing difficult professional situations for the development of foreign language communicative competence

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Elena A. Yukhmina ◽  
Daria V. Shlykova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
First Year ◽  
State University ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Difficult Situations

The paper considers an important pedagogical problem in the sphere of foreign language teaching, i.e. increasing the level of students communicative competence. Case study is a tool for solving this task. The research aim is to develop a set of communicative cases in English for solving difficult professional situations, the implementation of which will contribute to the development of students communicative competence. The following methods are used in the research: analysis of modern scientific and methodological literature on the problem of research; testing; monitoring the effectiveness of students work when using the developed set of communicative cases; statistical data processing. There were elaborated and tested four cases. The unifying topic of them is Difficult professional situations. The choice of the topic can be explained by a stimulating effect of difficult situations in a persons life. The content of each case embraces both productive and receptive skills. The approbation took place at Chelyabinsk State University within the framework of the discipline Foreign language (Applied Mathematics and Informatics group of specialties, the profile of Information and Management Technologies). The testees are the first-year students. One of the cases is presented here as a sample. A particular attention is paid to the study of the influence of difficult situations on human behavior. The paper contains a description of the stages of work on a case, criteria for the materials of cases, an analysis of the skills and abilities being formed, as well as recommendations for working with them. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that the results of the research can make foreign language teaching more effective.

Psychological and pedagogical conditions of collocational competence development of students based on the complex task “Dictogloss”

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Inga N. Aksenova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Development Of Students

The main goal of foreign language teaching is the development of foreign language communicative competence that implies the development of speech skills. Due to the prevalence of the competency-based approach in the methods, as well as based on the lexical approach, special attention is paid to the collocational competence development. Since the vocabulary acquisition is founded on the acquisition of the compatibility of words and phrases, and collocations are certain words in the language that tend to be used together, we should talk about the inclusion of collocational competence into the communicative competence. Informatization of education influences the methods of foreign language teaching. For the successful implementation of educational process in the modern world, the development of linguocomputer competence is necessary for both students and the teacher. Analysis of the methodic literature showed that the issue of the psychological and pedagogical conditions for the collocational competence development of students is not well covered in domestic and foreign methodic literature, and requires a more detailed study. In the presented study: 1) we conduct an analysis of the domestic and foreign scientists works on the psychological and pedagogical conditions for the competencies development; 2) we prove the importance of collocation competence development of students; 3) we study the issue of linguocomputer competence development of both students and teachers; 4) we identify the key place of the complex task “dictogloss” as a mean of collocational competence development, as well as a mean of linguocomputer competence formation and development.

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