Development Of Didactic Materials Research Articles

Innovative Strategies for English Language Learning in Ecuador: A Focus on Playful Learning

Education is a universal right that extends beyond core subjects to include cross-curricular content essential for preparing students for a competitive global landscape. In this context, English serves as a critical tool, recognized as both the first official language for 370 million users and a second language for 978 million (Eberhard et al., 2021). Despite its global importance, Ecuador faces challenges in English language proficiency, ranking low in Latin America due to inadequate methodologies and a lack of qualified teachers (Education First, 2021; Banegas & Sanchez, 2024). This project aims to implement a playful program tailored to middle school students (5th to 7th grades) at Eugenio Espejo Basic Education School, addressing their unique educational needs through the development of didactic materials and training for non-specialized teachers. A descriptive quantitative approach will guide the methodology, focusing on communicative competence through structured tutoring sessions that utilize reusable educational resources. The study will assess students' prior knowledge through a pre-test, which will inform the creation of a tailored curriculum designed to enhance vocabulary and overall language skills. This initiative not only seeks to improve English proficiency among students but also aims to equip teachers with effective pedagogical strategies, fostering a more conducive learning environment in Ecuadorian classrooms.

Didactic Use of the Publisher Processor to Enhance Meaningful Learning in Peruvian Secondary School Students

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the course of education from face-to-face to remote. In response to this context, we investigated the positive effect of the didactic use of the Publisher processor to enhance meaningful learning in the competence "explain the physical world based on scientific knowledge about matter and energy, biodiversity, earth and universe" of the science and technology area in fifth grade students of secondary education of a Public Educational Institution of Chiclayo (Peru). For this purpose, a pre-experimental design with pre- and post-test was used with a sample of 102 students selected in a non-probabilistic way. A program based on activities incorporated in learning experiences proposed by the Ministry of Education (Peru) was applied. As a result, 72% of the students increased their academic performance after the application of the program, improving up to five (5) points compared to the initial test. Thus, the development of didactic material using the Publisher processor strengthens learning, which highlights the importance of information technologies in the achievement of active learning and the need to use them in the processes of mediation, reinforcement and teacher feedback in virtual and/or face-to-face scenarios.

EXCURSION AS METHOD OF TEACHING AND LANGUAGE ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS

The article deals with an educational excursion as a method of language and socio-cultural adaptation of foreign students. Such topical issues as development of didactic materials at diffetent levels of preparation for the excursion (pre-excursion level, during the excursion level, post-excursion level) are covered in the article.The article contains samples of texts, a system of exercises, mental maps, online-links to my own developments in the sphere of the Ukrainian language as a foreign language. There have been submitted samples of phrases necessary for study and application of them first in a playful way in the classroom and then in real life. Ivan Puluj Museum -Room in the Ternopil Ivan Puluj national technical university has become a place of special interest. A level method, personality-oriented method, descriptive methods as well as methods of analysis and systematization are leading. Theoretical and practical developments of Hanna Shvets, Nina Stankevych, Oksana Horda, Olha Rusnak, Sophia Sokolova and others have served as a methodological basis. The article presents the experience of preparation, conducting and discussing of the educational excursion within the curriculum. The emphasis is made on thorough development of educational materials, step-by-step increase in complexity of the class work. There have been highlighted a number of components that should be paid attention to while preparing for the excursion. It is emphasized on the importance of mastering common and special vocabulary, scripts, multiple viewing/listening to video or audio materials, since such skills give confidence to students during communication and perception of the information related to the professional sphere, encourage a lively discussion of the topic, relieve the emotional tension. Special «keys» have been submitted, which will help connect vocabulary and grammar with real life. The attention is focused on the fact that educational excursions help not only adapt to the language, train the skills of speaking, but also to plunge into the historical and cultural context, draw parallels with the present. Various variants of educational excursions have been modeled too: teacher - student, teacher - guide - student, student - student etc. It has been concluded about the importance of educational excursions, the necessity to tell the students about prominent personalities, to reveal the worldwide scale of Ivan Puluj’s research, to establish intercultural interaction. Key words: Ukrainian as a foreign language, excursion, adaptation, Ivan Puluj Museum, educational process, audition.

TEACHING HIGHER MATHEMATICS BASED ON COMPETENCE-BASED AND THESAURUS APPROACHES

Formulation of the problem. The requirement to increase the level of mathematical training of future engineers and reduce the number of hours devoted to teaching higher mathematics gives rise to the task of developing and improving the methodology for teaching higher mathematics. The purpose of this article is to describe the methodology for teaching higher mathematics based on the thesaurus approach. Materials and methods. The research materials are pedagogical and methodical literature, and experiences of foreign and domestic scientists. In the course of the study, general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, concretization, systematization, and generalization) were used. Results. The thesaurus approach to learning helps to clarify the mathematical competence of a particular topic, the basis of educational information is the educational thesaurus, the student's lexicon necessary for the optimal distribution of educational information by type of training session and the development of didactic materials, the choice of methods and forms of education. Conclusions. Determining the content of the educational thesaurus of a specific topic of higher mathematics helps to clearly describe the mathematical competencies of the relevant topic, the stages of its formation, analyze and clarify the necessary educational information, distribute it by type of lesson (lecture, practical lesson, self-study). Determining the student's vocabulary necessary for mastering a new topic helps to determine the methodology and means of teaching, in particular, to develop auxiliary tasks and questions for updating the student's vocabulary, to establish successive links between the educational thesaurus and the student's vocabulary, to implement a differentiated approach to learning. The proposed methodology has the properties of flexibility, additions, and modifications depending on the learning objectives and specific academic group. Further research is needed on the effective use of the thesaurus approach in the process of teaching higher mathematics.

Quantitative Assessment of Geodiversity in Ecuadorian Amazon—Case Study: Napo Sumaco Aspiring UNESCO Geopark

Geodiversity is considered the abiotic equivalent of biodiversity; it can be explained in three main fields such as scientific, educational, and tourism. In sixteen geosites of Napo Sumaco Geopark, a quantitative assessment of geodiversity was carried out using the methodology proposed by Brilha (Brilha, Geoheritage 8:119–134, 2016). This work has a field data collection phase in the geosites Shunku Rumi and Pungarayacu Quarry, where for the first time a geological sketch and stratigraphic columns were made. Regarding the quantitative assessment, it was found that the geosites Sumaco Volcano and Guagua Sumaco Lagoon and Outlook have a high scientific value, the geosite Pungarayacu Quarry has a high potential for educational use, and the Puerto Misahualli’s Bookcase has a high potential touristic use. In terms of degradation risk assessment, Pungarayacu Quarry and Hollin River geosites have a high and moderate degradation risk respectively. The remaining fourteen geosites show a low risk of degradation because there are no activities that cause degradation, and are protected by the people of communities and local guides. Finally, this work shows the need for more scientific research, improvement in the security conditions, promotion of the geosites, and development of didactic material.

A Qualitative Case Study on the Validation of Automatically Generated Multiple-Choice Questions From Science Textbooks

In a concept learning scenario, any technology-supported learning system must provide students with mechanisms that help them with the acquisition of the concepts to be learned. For the technology-supported learning systems to be successful in this task, the development of didactic material is crucial—a hard task that could be alleviated by means of an automation process. In this proposal, two systems which have been previously developed, ArikIturri and DOM-Sortze, are combined to automatically generate multiple-choice questions, based on pedagogically relevant information gathered in textbooks. Originally, the former was able to generate multiple-choice questions from plain texts; and the latter was able to elicit learning objects based on didactic material explicitly represented in electronic textbooks, i.e., definitions, examples, and exercises. This article presents an approach for the automatic generation of multiple-choice questions from learning objects extracted from textbooks. Specifically, ArikIturri uses as input the texts gathered in the learning objects elicited by DOM-Sortze and, using natural language processing techniques, generates multiple-choice questions. This way, considering domain-relevant information from the textbooks, test-type exercises which were not previously elicited by DOM-Sortze are created. In summary, this new approach is able to enrich domain modules of technology-supported learning systems. The proposal has been tested with a textbook which is written in the Basque language and the results show that the generated exercises are suitable to be used in science learning scenarios at secondary school.

Розроблення дидактичних матеріалів як умова ефективного засвоєння професійно спрямованої іноземної мови

The article analyzes the feasibility of developing didactic materials by future technical specialists during the study of business foreignlanguage. The author has noted the need to adhere to the subject-subject and personality-oriented approaches, which are the mainones in the development of didactic materials by students during the classes of foreign language of professional orientation. The articleemphasizes that the successful mastering of a professionally oriented foreign language of future technical specialists will increasesignificantly if the principles of individualization, differentiation and interactivity of foreign language teaching are followed in theprocess of development of didactic materials. The author insists that students of higher technical education institutions by themselvesshould choose the teaching techniques or methodological methods of studying of certain topics of educational material for the applicationof personality-oriented technologies of teaching foreign languages which are well-known to them for deeper mastering of material. Atthe same time, it is advisable to recommend students to choose such methodological materials and techniques that would providethe opportunity to individualize and differentiate learning, taking into account the abilities of each student. The author has createdrecommendations for students on the development of didactic material: to select the appropriate information material; to identifycommunicative tasks of speakers; to draw up a scheme of a dialogue; to choose business role-playing games to activate speech material;to formulate questions in order to have control over the understanding of the content of the text that was read; to provide other studentswith communicative guidance on working in pairs in order to encourage a dialogue by request; to organize and carry out groupdiscussions; to correct mistakes in the speech of the participants of the discussion, without disturbing the process of communication,repeating ones question, clarifying something, and so on; to comment on the answers of their peers regarding professional languagecorrectness; to evaluate the dialogue for its relevance to the communicative task. The results of an experimental study on the effectiveacquisition of professionally oriented foreign language by students during the development of didactic materials have been highlighted.

Realidade Aumentada Aplicada a Visualização Espacial de Conceitos Relacionados à Projeção Ortogonal

Este texto apresenta a avaliação de um material didático interativo, desenvolvido com a tecnologia Realidade Aumentada (RA), cujo objetivo é facilitar a visualização tridimensional de objetos e apoiar o ensino e aprendizado de conceitos de Projeções Cotadas. Na concepção do desenvolvimento do material didático, a tecnologia no ambiente escolar é considerada parte do processo de ensino e aprendizagem, não sendo tratada como complementar ao ensino como ainda presenciamos na educação brasileira. São apresentadas considerações sobre o desenvolvimento do material didático impresso e do aplicativo em RA, bem como, a avaliação de usabilidade e aceitação da tecnologia por estudantes egressos da disciplina que aborda conceitos de Projeções Cotadas no curso de bacharelado em Expressão Gráfica da Universidade Federal do Paraná. Para a avaliação da usabilidade e aceitação da RA, foram utilizados questionários nos quais os participantes expressaram suas impressões em relação à integração desta tecnologia como recurso pedagógico no processo de ensino e aprendizagem. Os resultados mostram que os participantes avaliam positivamente o uso dessa tecnologia, apontando benefícios e demonstrando a viabilidade de aplicação do material desenvolvido em turmas regulares.

MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN THE EDUCATIONAL SPACE OF SWISS CONFEDERATION AT THE TURN OF THE 20ͭth – 21th centuries

The aim of the research is to compare different cantonal models of relations of secular authorities with religious organizations, to study the peculiarities of implementing needs of Muslim students and employees in state schools of Switzerland, to analyze the attempts to implement lessons of Islamic religious education in the cantons of St. Gallen, Lucerne and Thurgau and to assess the federal and cantonal initiatives, aimed at preparation of qualified teachers of Islamic studies, in order to research the perspectives of Islamic religious education development in Switzerland. The research methodology is defined by an interdisciplinary nature of approaches (history, law, Islamic studies). The scientific novelty of the research consists in the fact that it was the first time that on the basis of different groups of sources – regulatory and legislative acts, reports and press organs of organizations and profile commissions, as well as didactic materials for school administration, the place of Islamic community in the educational space of Switzerland was analyzed. The Conclusions . In spite of the fact that according to the Constitution of Swiss Confederation, the issues on education and religion were transferred to the cantonal level, the state, through decisions of the Federal Court of the national level, assisted to protection of religious freedoms of Muslim students (permission for visible religious attributes, special-purpose arrangements for swimming lessons, possible absence at the classes during the biggest religious holidays). It was established that the policy of cantons regarding Muslim community was often defined by external tendencies (the discussion on visible religious attributes and introduction of the course “Religions and Humanitarian Culture” concerned, first of all, French-speaking cantons while the attempts to introduce the system of Islamic religious education concern a range of German-speaking cantons). The pilot projects of IRE in St. Gallen, Lucerne and Thurgau revealed the need in establishing, in Switzerland, the correspondent system for preparing teachers of this direction and elaboration of didactic materials. The Confederation responded to this urgent need with creation, in 2015, of a profile branch by the University of Fribourg – Swiss Centre for Islam and Society. The perspective direction of the research is still the comparison of Swiss, German and Austrian approaches to preparation of IRE teachers and development of didactic materials.

THE USE OF MODULAR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

The article discusses the issues of modular training, the purpose, principles and stages of creating a training module, the sequential analysis of training material, identification of identification goals, the development of didactic material and the experimental verification of planning and compliance of the achieved results with the goals set in the module, as well as the problems that teachers face during the preparation of the training module, recommendations were developed.

СУЧАСНІ ТЕНДЕНЦІЇ ОРГАНІЗАЦІЇ ОСВІТНЬОГО ПРОЦЕСУ З ФІЗИКИ НА ЗАСАДАХ СТАЛОГО РОЗВИТКУ

In the article the author analyzes the reasons for the transition of society to the principles of sustainable development, the most promising ideology of the third millennium, which can be described as a new socio-economic paradigm. It is noted that sustainable development cannot be achieved without fundamental changes in the organization of science and education, which should take a special place among the means of implementing the above provisions. It is emphasized that in Ukraine there are some positive changes in the implementation of sustainable development ideas in education and determines the current state of penetration of sustainable development ideas into the educational process of general secondary education. Attention is paid to the regulatory framework that regulates the goals, objectives and principles of sustainable development. It is noted that in Ukraine at the state level there is a certain understanding and preconditions for the implementation of education for sustainable development. Particular emphasis is placed on the adoption of the Law "On Education", which contributed to the implementation of the educational project "New Ukrainian School", the concept of which is ideologically very close to the global concept of education for sustainable development. It emphasizes some success in promoting education for sustainable development in the field of non-formal education at the initiative of environmental NGOs, outlines the vector of their movement. The issue of implementing the principles of sustainable development in the study of physics is covered quite thoroughly. Particular attention is paid to the mechanism of formation in the process of studying the physics of key competencies and the importance of implementing semantic lines that reveal the purpose of sustainable development. Prospects for further scientific research in the development of didactic materials, which are permeated by the concept of sustainable development and the introduction of monitoring tools to assess their effectiveness, are outlined.

Rapid Automatized Picture Naming as a Proficiency Assessment for Endangered Language Contexts: Results from Wilamowice

This paper discusses the use of rapid automatized picture naming (RAN) in the assessment of proficiency among new speakers of endangered languages. Despite the fact that measuring proficiency among new speakers is crucial vis-à-vis the development of didactic materials and understanding language change, there are often a number of practical issues that reduce the practicality of traditional language evaluation methods. This paper investigates the potential of RAN assessments to provide a suitable indication of language proficiency by means of accuracy (ability to name pictures), speed (how quickly a verbal response is produced), and cognitive control (how well the speaker mediates cognitive load while performing the task). Results from RAN assessments administered among new speakers of Wymysorys, in concert with other data collection procedures, indicate that this type of task provides accurate insight into speakers’ proficiency. Latencies in the bilingual picture naming allow accurate insight into speakers’ proficiency as a function of the relative degrees of language entrenchment. However, increasing cognitive load during the assessment via speed of cue stimulus and frequently switching trial language showed no effect relative to the proficiency rank order established by naming accuracy and speed.

Development of Didactic Materials for Preschool Children with Different Sensory Perceptions

This article discusses the universal design in the subject environment. Universal design in the sphere of subject environment is a developing direction, which is necessary, especially in the field of education. Development of didactic materials for children with different sensory perceptions is proposed.

Development of didactic materials and activities on interdisciplinary bases: an example for oil an

Although the subject “Oil and Gas” is not usually present in the Secondary School Curriculum, it is of interest to students due to its obvious relationships with everyday life, and has been selected to design a series of teaching resources. Not only natural sciences such as Geology, Biology and Chemistry are embedded in the formation and accumulation of petroleum, but also con-stant references to History, Geography and Technology are present when linking together its discovery, exploitation, industrial-ization and use. The materials being produced cover three categories: a reference text to be available in printed and PDF file versions, a portfolio of teaching resources and a website. The first two are described and exemplified. The portfolio also in-cludes examples of published materials, which contain conceptual errors proposing their use to explore misconceptions if used at the beginning of the presentation of the subject in class, or to identify levels of understanding if used at the end.

10.5937/kultura1442262n = Specific purposes of French language teaching to fine arts students

Studying French language as part of a standard curriculum of fine arts undergraduate studies can be considered a special form of foreign language teaching, which is also known as FSP (French for Specific Purposes). The FSP in this context refers to a language course designed for students aimed at preparing them for those situations that typically would arise in a professional and a higher education context in fine arts. Implementation of such a program requires a number of preparatory didactical steps, namely: needs analysis, data collection and development of didactic materials. Bearing in mind the lack of specialized French language textbooks for fine arts students, a teacher of French language has to analyze target situations and in line with the set communication, lexical, grammatical and intercultural learning targets and create didactic materials on his/her own. The goal of this form of teaching is to integrate fine arts content with French language learning by the selection of special didactical materials and methods.