Creating Meaningful Foreign Language Environment by Means of Content-based Starters

Maiia Karpushyna,Ihor Bloshchynskyi,Alona Nakonechna,Kateryna Skyba

doi:10.13189/ujer.2019.071219

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https://doi.org/10.13189/ujer.2019.071219

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Abstract

The issues of creating foreign language environment in the English class by means of content-based warm-ups at its initial stage have been revealed in the research. Having analyzed the investigations on the issues under discussion, the role of the class starters and their contribution to the general second language teaching strategy and cadets' inducement to learn a foreign language in particular, have been defined. The expectation hypothesis suggests that content-based starters will exert a beneficial influence on cadets and help improve their academic results. Four cadets' groups of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Humanities who acquire 035 Philology specialty were involved in the experiment in order to test the hypothesis. The methodology of the experiment includes qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. Special focus has been made on the professional training of the future border guards whose responsibilities presuppose the ability to interview the foreigners at the international border crossing points as well as questioning irregular migrants beyond them. The result of the experiment demonstrated the validity of our expectation: the scores of the experimental groups were 5,64 higher in comparison with the control groups' results.

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True-to-life, Subsequent Acquisition, Academic Results, Speaking Skills of adapting cadets to a new content of a lesson as well as to ‘break ice’ in communication and get them motivated for learning from the start
Taking into consideration that border checks officers should be able to switch from their native language to a foreign one in order to accomplish effectively their tasks at the international airports, sea and highway border crossing points during passport control, as well as border surveillance officers are expected to question irregular migrants, instructors are concerned about all classroom potentials in teaching fluent foreign communication
To get cadets absorbed in a foreign language performance of speaking activities at the beginning of environment is a crucial task of every instructor who is the pedagogical experiment; anxious to get them engaged in learning environment and 3

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True-to-life, Subsequent Acquisition, Academic Results, Speaking Skills of adapting cadets to a new content of a lesson as well as to ‘break ice’ in communication and get them motivated for learning from the start. Special role in performing this task is given to the lesson starters. To get cadets absorbed in a foreign language performance of speaking activities at the beginning of environment is a crucial task of every instructor who is the pedagogical experiment; anxious to get them engaged in learning environment and 3. To determine the level of academic progress of the make them excited about a topic They are conscious cadets’ achievements of both efficiency and gains in Universal Journal of Educational Research 7(12): 2710-2716, 2019 speaking performance at the end of the pedagogical experiment

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