The paper details on the use of TED video-based material as a didactic tool in developing subtitling skills in university students. Focus is laid on the training of language specialists in ...audiovisual translation courses taught at G.E. Palade UMPhST of Targu Mures, with a triggered civic engagement by means of taking part in a community subtitling project while contributing to making “ideas worth spreading” accessible to viewership.
This paper aims at corroborating the mythological symmetry between two literary products, which functions as a core in the development of the interculturality in language learning. It also ...particularizes, by way of specific objectives, the different cultural referents that are explicitly stated in two literary works as good examples of the universal culture. It explores some mythological allusions in Shakespeare‟s “Puck” and in Guillén“Güije”, as a didactic tool of great value for the students‟ cultural and communicative development. Some mythological, cultural, and communicative-based activities are proposed for third year students of foreign languages at Camagüey University.The activities are devised from the integration of two subjects: English Practice and History of English speaking countries.
El presente trabajo tiene como propósito corroborar la simetría mitológica entre culturas supuestamente diferentes en dos productos literarios, la cual funciona como eje vertebrador del desarrollo de la interculturalidad en lenguas, además de especificar, a modo de objetivos específicos, los distintos referentes culturales que se explicitan en dos obras literarias como ejemplos representativos de la cultura universal.Explora algunas alusiones mitológicas a partir del “Puck” de Shakespeare y el “Güije” de Guillén, como una herramienta didáctica de gran valor para el desarrollo lingüístico, cultural e identitario en los estudiantes. Como principal resultado se propone un conjunto de actividades para el trabajo con el elemento cultural, mitológico ycomunicativo en estudiantes de tercer año de lenguas extranjeras de la Universidad de Camagüey, a partir de la integración de asignaturas de práctica de la lengua y de historia de la cultura.
This article presents the results of studies devoted to assessing the survival of students' knowledge, regardless of their basic training. The study was conducted based on two groups of specialists, ...recertified under the program "Pharmacy management and economics" at the Pharmacy Department of Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Some of the specialists of the experimental groups had been previously trained at the Pharmacy Department of Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University in 2012-2013 using a new developed didactic tool named "Activity Book". According to the results obtained, the skills acquired by the specialists trained using on "Activity Book" in 2012-2013, were characterized by higher "survivability".
Since its emergence in the 1960s, the use of virtual reality (VR) has grown progressively. This wide dissemination of VR has allowed its application in an increasing number of disciplines, including ...education. It is well known that virtual laboratories (VLs), which base their use in VR technology, are very useful tools in both university and professional training. In this article, the main advantages and disadvantages of the use of modern VLs in teaching are analyzed. In addition, the design and development process that must be followed to appropriately create these VLs is described in detail, as well as a small-scale study of the perception that university teachers have about the use of VR in education. Lastly, the reasons why the implementation of VR is not currently as broad as it would be expected, given its proven potential in different fields, are discussed.
In this paper, we describe an educational experience involving the use of the jigsaw method on the Medicinal Chemistry course at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. The goal of this proposal was to ...investigate acceptance and contributions of the method to undergraduate chemistry teaching. Feedback on the jigsaw method collected from the focus groups and questionnaires showed that participants generally acknowledged the advantages of the jigsaw method in helping them learn the Medicinal Chemistry subject. Suggestions for improving the jigsaw method were also received from participants.
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