Technology for Distant Examinations in a Foreign Language at a University

Asten, Tamara; Rynkevich, Anna; Карпова, А В

doi:10.21125/iceri.2020.0012

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“…Understanding performance expectations is the key to achieving satisfaction of educational needs in the tourism industry. Good oral and written communication skills are the main skills important for everyday practice and professional activity in the field of tourism at various positions and levels [1][2][3][4]. In this regard, tourism and hospitality play a significant role, and intercultural contacts contribute to the development of intercultural dialogue.…”

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Discourse approach in teaching foreign language professional communication

Asten

2022

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This study presents the most important conceptual foundations of the organization of teaching a foreign language to university students regarding the improvement of the quality, efficacy of the content and the basic components of the system used for its implementation in order to form and develop the necessary level of competency. The purpose of the research is to develop and verify the educational system of organizing foreign language teaching for specific purposes of university students using a discourse approach that includes the use of features of professional, academic, official-business and pragmatic discourses. To achieve the aim, the following objectives were set up and solved: 1) to analyze the types of discourse and present a descriptive model of the discursive approach in teaching a foreign language to students of a technical university for specific purposes; 2) to conduct an aspect analysis of the educational discourse on a foreign language for specific purposes of students of a technical university; 3) to organize experimental work related to obtaining an evidence base regarding the effectiveness of the proposed comprehensive system of organizing foreign language teaching for special specific purposes of students of a technical university on the basis of a discourse approach. The methodology of the research covers the pedagogical foundations of the technological approach to the educational process and its organization; the concept of professional competence and intercultural communication; the provisions of discursive discourse linguistics; scientific works in the field of continuing education. The study presents didactic units for inclusion in the content of training, educational programs, teaching aids and textbooks on a foreign language for specific purposes. The results of theoretical research made it possible to develop and apply in the experimental part of the study the authors’ course, a training program and an educational and methodological manual for students.

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Discourse approach in teaching foreign language professional communication

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2022

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“…Pedagogy refers to the science of education, involving the design of learning environments and the study of their relative effectiveness. It is also used to define different approaches to teaching and learning, such as constructivist pedagogy [1,2,3,4]. Constructivism is a theory that states that learning occurs as a dialogue between prior knowledge and new material.…”

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Content and structure of massive open online courses technologies in the context of trends in the organization teaching in higher education institutions

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Egorova

2021

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The purpose of this study is to compile an analytical review of the technologies of mass open online courses: their goals, objectives, pedagogical and technical features of the organization in order to use them as an additional educational resource for foreign language teaching of university students. The objectives of the study are to conduct a content analysis, classification and generalization of the results regarding the pedagogical conditions and characteristics of the most representative examples of mass open online courses in the Russian and international segment of educational Internet resources. The research methodology is based on the provisions of the competence-based and personality-oriented approaches to foreign language education at the university. For this purpose, the study examined the organizational and methodological features of the language courses Udemy, Coursera, edX, Stepik, Lectorium, Universarium and some other open education platforms. The analysis made it possible to systematize, summarize and present the main organizational and methodological characteristics of educational platforms in terms of the organization of training and the content of language courses.The study involved 852 students and 14 teachers who used mass open online courses in teaching non-linguistic students a foreign language for two semesters as an additional Internet resource. As a result of the conducted research, the components of the model of using a mass open online course in the organization of distance learning and as an additional training course to the main content of the educational material on the discipline «Foreign Language» at the university were developed and refined.

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