Application of Mobile Technologies in Foreign Language Learners’ Project Activity

Rimma Ivanova,Zhanna Nikonova,Andrey Ivanov

doi:10.3991/ijim.v14i21.18471

Abstract

<p class="0abstract">The article analyzes the specific features of project work organization in English classes with blended mobile learning with the participation of students who previously haven't studied foreign languages or had school experience in learning other foreign languages – German or French. The relevance of the proposed work is caused by the application of the project method on the basis of mobile technologies that promotes the development of oral communication skills in the most effective way, taking into account the individual characteristics of the student and allows him in the future conducting a free conversation in a foreign language. The novelty of the methodology used lies in the complex application of systemic and integrative approaches using mobile technologies to the formation of oral skills in a foreign language. The hypothesis of the study that the application of the proposed teaching method contributes to a stable average for all students to improve the quality of knowledge throughout the entire period of study was fully confirmed. Student’s participation in the project work and the use of mobile technology to share information and knowledge are an independent creative activity that ends with the creation of a fully communicative and linguistically correct speech message. Free speech in a foreign language based on students own multimedia product is considered as a practical result of using an intensive method of teaching a foreign language from scratch.</p>

Highlights

An important feature of modern language training in higher education is its innovativeness, which implies the development of new language professional and cultural experience among students on the basis of creative and critical thinking, mobile and web-technologies, cognitive activity, problematic, dialogue-role modeling in the learning process
In modern conditions an intensive method of teaching foreign languages on base of mobile learning, which provides a significant improvement in the quality of education, compared to traditional methods [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
A specific feature of the methodology used in teaching a foreign language from scratch in Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University is that in a short time, through the involvement of students in broad educational project activities, using multimedia tools, iJIM ‒ Vol 14, No 21, 2020

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Introduction

An important feature of modern language training in higher education is its innovativeness, which implies the development of new language professional and cultural experience among students on the basis of creative and critical thinking, mobile and web-technologies, cognitive activity, problematic, dialogue-role modeling in the learning process. The basis for organizing the process of teaching foreign languages should be a complex methodology that stimulates the project activities of students, the effectiveness of which largely depends on the mobile technology, used during the training. Subjective, but not less essential, the independence and motivation of first-year students, being the condition for successful project activity [16,17,18,19,20,21] In this connection, the use mobile student generated content in the project work stimulates the independence of students and motivates them to situational and context-conditioned formatting of foreign speech, explicable in the mode of monological or dialogical statement [22,23,24,25,26]

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