The paper deals with foreign language teaching methodology. It especially focuses on the ways of optimization of educational process for foreigners learning the Russian language. The goal of this ...article is the teaching of humorous texts as one of the ways to motivate students while mastering a foreign language. The paper includes an analysis of Russian educational material with a humorous component. The author explores the main difficulties of implementing humorous texts in the educational process and pays special attention to humour in animated movies. The conclusion is that an appropriately chosen humorous text motivates students to learn a foreign language, contributes to the development of linguistic, sociolinguistic and sociocultural competencies, and helps to overcome the communication barrier.
This paper explores the correlation between the use of several types of equivalence (e.g., linguistic, paradigmatic, semantic) for ELT purposes and the acquisition of terms and concepts pertaining to ...the fields of science and technology. It builds on previous research concerning the questionable use of interlingual equivalence (namely foreign language – mother tongue) when seeking vocabulary enhancement on the part of ELLs (English language learners). In order to gain significant insight, mixed research methods have been employed, most notably overt observation carried out among two groups of undergraduates (Architecture and Civil Engineering) paired with assessment strategies.
Empathy is a key factor in teaching foreign languages, making it possible to establish an emotional connection both between the teacher and students and between students themselves, as well as ...between students and a target language, which has a positive effect on learning outcomes. The distance learning format is no exception, but it requires more attention to this factor, since there are objective obstacles to the emergence of empathy in a natural way, which often occurs in face-to-face training and requires certain awareness when it is introduced into the educational process by the teacher. The research purpose is to develop practical recommendations for language teachers at universities on the introduction of psychological-methodological elements that contribute to an increase in the empathy of all participants in distance and hybrid classes to improve the effectiveness of learning. The research methodology includes an experiment, observation, deduction, survey, post-analysis. As a result of the study, specific recommendations were formulated to build an emotional connection in distance classes in a foreign language. Thus, it is recommended to use methodological and psychological tools, gamification, and discussion format of classes, to control the dynamics of seminars. Establishing an empathic connection is facilitated by less formal and more benevolent communication at distance seminars, preferably a targeted appeal to students, to the whole group, keeping the camera on and enriching seminars with various emotionally charged and substantive elements, the teacher’s active presence in social networks during off-hours, engaging all types of work in real time: interactive whiteboard, editing shared documents.
English language, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is immovably related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch (in Belgium called Flemish) tongues. English began in England ...and is the transcendent language of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and diverse island nations in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. It's anything but's a position language of India, the Philippines, Singapore, and various countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa. English is the most ideal alternative of obscure tongue in most various countries of the world, and it is that status that has given it the circumstance of an overall most generally utilized language. It is surveyed that about 33% of the complete people, around two billion individuals, as of now use English ow various countries in the world convey in English? Knowing this helps you with understanding why study English.
The goal of the research is to explain the reasonability of including humorous texts in study materials for the Ukrainian language, and to work out a methodically correct systemof using them with a ...foreign audience. Observational methods were used to find out how foreign students react to jokes during the study process, hypothetical and inductive experiment – to define the didactic and linguocultural potential of proposed texts and methodic experiment – to prove the educational efficiency of humorous texts. The research results confirm that creative work with short humorous texts will stimulate students to work actively in the classroom, motivate them to communicate in Ukrainian, and positively influence the level of communication proficiency.
In this article we observe various methods of teaching foreign language in oral form within a certain situation. We claim, that when learning a second language, in addition to phonological and ...lexical-grammatical knowledge, students need to master the ways of communicating with other people. We stress on the need to form an integrated approach in the preparation and realization of classes and tasks for the effective development of students’ oral speech skills. We also examine the methodology known as Communicative Language Teaching or CLT and explore its origins and evolution since it was first proposed in the 1970s, and how it has influenced approaches to language teaching today. The research consists of the 6 main sections (abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion and references).
The article presents a mixed-methods study that examines how undergraduate students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) sustain their practices of learning English during the ongoing ...Russo-Ukrainian war in 20222023. In total, 33 undergraduate EFL students (henceforth participants) took part in the study. In order to gain insight into their sustainable learning practices, the participants were requested to write a short reflective essay titled My Thoughts on How I Learn English during the War. The participants were instructed to write their essays in English within a one-week timeframe. Seeking to identify and classify a range of sustainable practices related to the ways the participants learnt English during the Russo-Ukrainian war, their reflective essays were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively. The analysis of the participants essays revealed the following learning practices that, according to the participants, helped them to sustain their EFL learning trajectory in the wartime EFL contexts: (i) participation in online EFL courses, (ii) communication with the native speakers of English on social networking sites (e.g., Instagram), and (iii) the combination of EFL learning activities offered at the participants university. The findings are discussed in detail further in the article through the lens of sustainable multilingualism development. Specifically, we argue that the development of multilingualism in the time of crises is feasible and sustainable, especially if it is coupled with an EFL learners inner psychological factors that are further facilitated by the external support offered by the digital learning environments that are (i) institutionalised and systematic, and (ii) extra-mural and unstructured (in other words, digitally wild).
This paper aims to present the importance of speaking and listening and to improve the art of communication in Italian language. Listening is an immediate and spontaneous activity, exercised by the ...man from the first moments of life. Furthermore, in the modern world, oral communication is the most widespread form of information transmission, so it is very important to refine our ability in listening and to be able understand the various types of information that we receive. Speaking is a daily activity. Listening and speaking skills allow us to communicate effectively with others. Communication involves more than the ability to simply talk and hear other people. It is essential to have good listening and speaking skills, as this will allow us to adapt our language to suit certain situations and improve our ability to successfully share our thoughts while also considering the views of others.
Considering a great number of expressions with get, teachers do not have to avoid them while teaching English Language. In teaching process, however the mere attention of expressions with get is ...enough to incite confusion among the students. While teaching students, they do not always understand different patterns and meanings of the verb get and therefore they are not accessible to them. The scope of the article is to investigate expressions with verb get (get combined with different parts of speech, collocations, phrasal verbs, etc.) in order to help teachers better clarify the problematic topic, identify such expressions, understand, learn and use them more effectively in teaching process.
The language competences in the Polish of teenage heritage language learners so far have not been compared to the skills of their Polish peers. Such an attempt was made at the Institute of Polish ...Language and Culture for Foreigners. For the purposes of this project (Heritage vs. Native Language Comparison of Language Competences of Polish Native and Heritage Language Learners), a comprehensive tool for measuring language skills of bilingual youth was developed. The level of their language was assessed on the basis of a written test with a structure and content similar to the primary school competence graduation exam. The test involved two groups, bilingual teenagers and monolingual Polish peers. The article will present the background of the project and the quantitative analysis of its results. We will focus on the scores from writing and reading (language skills), as well as on vocabulary and spelling. We will also present the conclusions drawn from the project.
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