Language Teaching System Research Articles

Edutocracy: The New West Indian Plantocracy?

Despite pedagogical, technological, and curricular advancements in the West Indian education system, there has been little success in constructively addressing the pervasive regional English language examination failures. I contend that most researchers address these second language acquisition failures by focusing on symptoms rather than causes. However, this study seeks a novel way of tackling the problem, by employing the WordTree design by analogy method, typically used in the engineering field, but adapted for this social science enquiry. The method is used to generate a fitting analogy for the current failing language education system to provide insights into underlying issues, which assist in better understanding and addressing this failure. This method finds that the failing system is analogous to that of the plantocratic system of colonial times based on their strikingly similar ideologies, practices, and attendant outcomes. Resultantly, I term this language education system, an edutocracy.1 This study expands on scholarly works in the advancing areas of curriculum as cultural practice and colonial imagination to provide a different, deeper perspective of this West Indian problem, while exploring the implications of the analogous relationship.

Implementation of the Sheltered Instructional Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model in the Saudi Classroom: EFL Teachers’ Perspectives

This study evaluates the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model and its application in the Saudi classroom from the English language teachers’ perspective. The study used a descriptive study design, with a selected sample of 300 male and female English language teachers from elementary and middle schools. The research conducted a group-wide comparison using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Findings illustrate that educational qualification, career status, job experience and training courses substantially affect application of the SIOP model in the classroom. Results also show that technical, financial capabilities and teachers' qualifications enable the SIOP implementation in the Saudi classroom. The study suggests the implementation of the SIOP model for the sake of transitioning from the traditional English language education system to more advanced methods concerned with the systematic evaluation of English language teachers and classroom environment standards. The recommendation includes training teachers on the SIOP model and emphasizes providing other countries with the guidelines related to SIOP implementation in the English classroom.

Mobile Technology Usage: The Shift of Focus to Cultivate High Level Thinking Skills (HOTS) in the Malay Language Education System

The rapid growth of information and communication technology has also affected the current education world. Teachers as individuals in charge of teaching and guiding pupils in the classroom need to undertake a paradigm shift related to pedagogy conducted. Teachers should be wise in balancing between the content of knowledge and information to be conveyed and then combine it with other skills, especially the skill of high order thinking (HOTs) by using mobile technology. The use of mobile technology is now increasingly gaining attention in the world community in all matters. Hence, the educational system is able to offer chances and opportunities to embrace high-level thinking by making mobile technology a device that brings about and facilitates teachers to deliver knowledge and skills to pupils of generation Z.

An integrative model of a methodological system of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language to English-speaking applicants for higher medical education

For foreign medical students, their command of the Ukrainian language determines not only the process of socialization, integration of a communicative personality into the academic and socio-cultural environment, but also is a means of forming the skills of their professional communication as future specialists. The lack of an integral integrative system of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language (UFL) to English-speaking academic contingent of foreign medical students causes disagreement between the tasks and content of language education, theory and practice of teaching UFL, as well as the lack of phasing and succession in the formation of the professional and communicative image of future foreign doctors, who receive higher education in Ukrainian medical universities in English. The author proposes an integrative model of the Ukrainian language teaching system for English-speaking applicants for higher medical education in Ukraine. The basis for the development of an integrative methodological system was the identification and analysis of the specific communicative needs of the English-speaking contingent of foreign students of Ukrainian medical universities, the characteristics of the methodological parameters for the implementation of urgent communication needs; systematic analysis of innovative development trends and structural and content features of the paradigm of language education, software and educational-methodological support of teaching UFL to foreign students in compliance with the requirements of the modern paradigm of language education; personal experience of teaching in an English-speaking foreign audience and the experience of the Language Training Department 1 of the Institute of International Education for Study and Research of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in providing language education services to such a contingent of students.

Історико-педагогічні особливості викладання іноземної мови в Радянському Союзі (50–80-ті роки хх століття)

One of the urgent problems of the modern education system is the problem of its compliance with the strategic tasks facing the country. The development of international relations of Ukraine, as an integral part of our global strategy, is impossible without extensive intercultural communications. At the same time, modern realities require the intensification of this sphere of education. Considering the mentioned material, it can be concluded that the formation of approaches and methods for learning a foreign language in the twentieth century was a long process. Accordingly, it enables a thorough study of the peculiarities of teaching and learning aviation English. Currently, vocational training of foreign languages in higher technical education institutions, in particular aviation, has become a priority at the current stage of globalization and internationalization of the educational process, and is reflected in state documents. The purpose of the article is to analyze the development of intensive foreign language teaching systems in Soviet Union practice. The main tasks: studying the development of teaching a foreign language in 50-80s; consideration of the evolution of teaching a foreign language in the USSR. The need to improve the quality of higher technical education in the 50s – 80s of the XX century. Contributed to the return of foreign languages in the curriculum of technical universities. Various aspects of the organizational orientation of teaching foreign languages were studied and as a result it was found out that throughout the Soviet period the content of higher professional education of a specialist was determined, first of all, by the needs of the state and only then by the demands of the individual himself. Later and nowadays in independend Ukraine the question is raised about the interests and comprehensive personal development of a person and a specialist. It becomes a very actual point to train a highly qualified multilaterally developed specialists.

Design of cloud computing-based foreign language teaching management system based on parallel computing

In view of the long response time of the traditional foreign language teaching management system and the inability to guide students to improve their learning interest, a foreign language teaching management system based on parallel computing is proposed. In this method, the cloud architecture of the foreign language teaching system is given under the cloud computing environment, on which the parallel computing method is adopted to design the foreign language teaching management system hardware, which is scalable and flexible. The parallel algorithm is designed and the communication between the modules of the system is implemented with C# language. The experimental results show that response time for each of the four scores of 'Zhang' is 1s in reference (Huang, 2017), the response time for each of them is only 0.6 s in this paper. The system can shorten the response time for query and improve the development speed of web-based foreign language teaching, effectively promotes the development of web-based foreign language teaching and students' interests in foreign language learning.

Design of cloud computing-based foreign language teaching management system based on parallel computing

In view of the long response time of the traditional foreign language teaching management system and the inability to guide students to improve their learning interest, a foreign language teaching management system based on parallel computing is proposed. In this method, the cloud architecture of the foreign language teaching system is given under the cloud computing environment, on which the parallel computing method is adopted to design the foreign language teaching management system hardware, which is scalable and flexible. The parallel algorithm is designed and the communication between the modules of the system is implemented with C# language. The experimental results show that response time for each of the four scores of 'Zhang' is 1s in reference (Huang, 2017), the response time for each of them is only 0.6 s in this paper. The system can shorten the response time for query and improve the development speed of web-based foreign language teaching, effectively promotes the development of web-based foreign language teaching and students' interests in foreign language learning.

Computer Linguodidactics in the System of Innovative Language Education

One of the most important tasks of innovative language education and language policy of Russia is to comprehend the Russian language as a powerful factor that forms a sense of human involvement in the socio-cultural creation, as well as the civilizational transformation of Russia and the world. The Russian language and culture preservation, development, and dissemination (both in arts, the cultural sector, as well as science and technology) is according to the authors an imperative of stability, security, and competitiveness of Russia in the globalizing world. A special role in determining strategies and tactics of teaching the Russian language in the paradigm of a new lifestyle of mankind and the global educational environment belongs to electronic, digital, and telecommunication technologies. The subject of the present study is the educational language process, organized based on computer (digital) technologies and the optimal implementation of the linguistic and didactic qualities of electronic learning tools. The objective of the study is to determine the goals, subject matter, methods, forms, and means of computer linguodidactics, aimed at substantiating the laws and determining effective ways of language learning by means of info-communication resources. The paper outlines the research methods of the innovative language education system as well as linguo-didactic abilities of computer tools in the formation of multilevel Russian-language communicative competence and its individual components in students. The authors suggest the ways and means of updating and enrichment of professional-pedagogical competence of the Russian language teachers in the use of information and communication technologies, as well as in defining the prospects in the educational interaction (electronic, network) of teachers and students, contributing to maintaining the competitiveness of domestic language education and the pedagogical community.

Responsive Web-based Korean Language Education System

Responsive Web-based Korean Language Education System

The Study of Adjustment Issues of University Students in Turkey under the Globalization of Education

Globally the mobilization of students tented from east to west where students prefer to travel and enroll in modern and advanced universities of west. They try to adapt the language, culture and new education system. Such trends happen in Turkey also in recent times and the universities in Turkey had seen a huge rise of enrolment of international students. The strength of International student’s in higher education within the Turkey has increased considerably in the last few years with the help of different Turkish Scholarship Programs. The relevance of this work is determined by the adjustment issues of foreign student’s adaptation to the educational environment of Turkish Universities. The study revealed that international students faces many challenges, which are categorized under academic challenges, social isolation, and cultural adjustment. In order to overcome these hurdles, challenges and barriers students have adopted and acclimatized different resources, which mainly are derived from the universities and outside universities in order to overcome all these challenges.

Construction of Multi-evaluation System of Practical Tourism Korean Flip Classroom Teaching Based on CIPP

The reversed classroom teaching mode has attracted much attention because of its subversion of the teaching process and the cultivation of students’ various abilities. Due to the free learning environment and perfect resource support, the reversal of classroom teaching mode has achieved fruitful results. In the process of implementation and promotion of tourism Korean flip classroom, some problems have gradually emerged. The lack of evaluation criteria has become a major problem faced by tourism Korean flip classroom teaching mode. CIPP evaluation model, which emphasizes process improvement and process evaluation, and teaching feedback, is especially suitable for the needs of educational reform activities for educational evaluation, and also fits in with the characteristics of overturning the diversity of classroom teaching objectives and the advancement of teaching process. This paper studies the evaluation system of tourism Korean language teaching based on flipped classroom, constructs a multi-evaluation system of students’ learning in flipped classroom based on CIPP, probes into the meaning and classification of tourism Korean language teaching evaluation, and analyses the multi-evaluation model.

Development language independence formation as a factor of professional training effectiveness

Introduction:orientation to the international cooperation in the context of carrying out missions on providing national and common security, integration of actions at struggle with terrorism transform requirements revealed to the military specialists professional training and determine the National Guard troops need for servicemen who know the international language and able to perform service and fighting missions up to the world standard. The potential of foreign language learning can implemented to the full extent and contributed greatly to the future military specialist personality development, if foreign language training is based on cadet’s foreign language formation. So cadet’s foreign language formation is the means to increase professional training effectiveness. It is the factor influencing the future officer’s readiness to integration to the international professional community.Materials and methods:study and survey of scientific literature, generalization of domestic and foreign experience on the theme, conversation with cadets and their direct commanders, overseeing the cadets’ independent work organization on foreign language learning permit to conclude the following. Cadets do not possess foreign language independence and demonstrate low capability to carry out their independent work. It is demonstrated in difficulties with their independent foreign language activities planning. Future officers are not able to set a goal, determine work stages, distribute time for their reasonable performing, choose means and ways, control. The purpose of methodic experiment is to detect and approve effective means of foreign language formation in the conditions of systematic and goal-oriented independent work organization.Results:as the result of conducted experiment a methods of foreign language formation is developed and approved. The methods developed in the course of studies are an algorithm of education that includes some structured blocks. They are the goal setting block, the theoretical block, the technological block and the assessment block.Discussion and Conclusions:in the course of methodical experiment positive effect of systematically organized independent work on future officers’ foreign language independence formation is approved. Quantitative indicators of foreign language independence formation, received in the course of the experiment, are approved in real qualitative changes demonstrated by cadets. Overseeing cadets at the education process and communication with them prove practical independence using that resulting in future officers’ capability to organize their independent work in the context of foreign language learning. Cadets employ formed foreign language independence at lessons and extracurricular classes. With the foundation on theoretical and practical development on cadet’s foreign language independence formation it is possible to revise the system of foreign language teaching and change it according to the social and governmental order.

빅데이터 기법을 활용한 국내 ‘중국어교육’에 대한 사회 인식 연구

Currently, Korea’s Chinese education academia need to make rapid adjustment efforts to switch to a Chinese language education system that trains suitable talent in the era of the fourth industrial revolution demanded by the future society. However, the most important task to precede before attempting these changes and innovations will be to first accurately analyze the needs of the era associated with Chinese language and the current social cognitions and trends of each educational element in our country, and then set the direction and specific methods of change and innovation based on the results.BR It is the ’big data analysis method’ that has emerged as the most powerful and scientific method of analysis in solving these social cognitions and social issues.BR In this study, we intend to use these big data analysis methods to accurately analyze the current social awareness of Chinese language in our country and set the pre-preparation and direction of future Chinese education.BR In order to analyze the concept of our society’s cognitions of Chinese education more specifically and systematically using these text mining techniques and social network analysis methods, we will first conduct a big data collection to include all three aspects of education: ‘Professor,’ ‘student’ and ‘media’. The collection period was set at five years from March 1, 2014 to March 1, 2019, and the data collection channels were included in the collection data from the headquarters of the country’s largest portal sites, ‘NAVER’ and ‘DAUM’, as well as the two-way social media channels, ‘YOUTUBE’ and ‘FACEBOOK’. The collection method set “Chinese” as an essential inclusion word within the above collection channel, selected “education” as a word that could represent “professor,” “learning” as a word that could represent “student,” and “teaching” as a word that could represent “media” to extract all data that contained these words and analyze social networks. BR Finally, based on this, we discussed the future direction of Chinese education starting from the perspective of social demand for Chinese education.

ІНШОМОВНА ОСВІТА ДОРОСЛИХ У ШВЕЦІЇ

The Swedish foreign language education system deserves the attention of Ukrainian scholars as it incorporates advanced trends of contemporary pedagogical practice and preserves the traditions of folk high schools as the basis for creation of educational paths for adults in Europe. The first position in the world, according to indicators of foreign language literacy (EPI), shows the effectiveness of national strategy of Sweden in this field. Multinationality, which leads to cultural diversity of Swedish society, the state and problematics of Swedish language functioning with English as academic lingua franca, speak about the common challenges faced by nation in the context of globalization and migration. The exchange of experience between Ukraine and Sweden is extremely important, because the challenges faced by modern Swedish foreign languge education need some Classic approach when teaching to those who come with low competence. This classic practice is widely used in Ukraine which needs instructions on implementing interactive communicational methods. The goals which pursue the adults and age form the demand and urge the creation of a new content and study forms: foreign language by profession, specialization; business foreign language, foreign language for specific purposes etc. The traditional high level of language competence among Swedish students makes it possible to apply different interactive methods in study process while the newcomers from other countries need some classic approach to form basic skills. State support of multilingualism in Sweden may be observed in the support of informal learning environment, the absence of dubbed foreign language films, talk shows, documentaries, radio broadcasts, periodicals (mostly in English). Swedish cultural philosophy considers the act of barbarity if the original, authentic, foreign-language materials are translated, being mostly accompanied by subtitles in Swedish. Many travel agencies advertise Sweden in their travel booklets, emphasizing it as a country where 90% of the population speak English very well, and therefore it is a comfortable and productive place for foreigners to stay (for example, for study). There’s a common national practice to teach subjects in English, for example, a geography teacher speaks English at a lesson. The content of adult learning in Sweden is characterized by interdependence with labor market demand; still the national adult education system can cover levels that are not related to professional development only. There’s a support of any educational goals in adulthood, unless you do not mark them as hobby. The content of courses in private schools is person-oriented, and should meet the needs of those who want to study – these are mostly specialists who need specific, carrier-centered foreign language skills, for example: English for managers, economists, physicians, engineers; English for those who migrate to India, China, America, and others.

Fastering Humanistic Language Teaching

Language teaching systems (especially in Indonesia) are generally still dominative. Teachers still dominate teaching process, both regarding the communication pattern, material presentation, and evaluation system used. In fact, education experts, such as John Dewey and Paulo Freire, emphasize the importance of developing a humanistic teaching climate. In this teaching climate, teachers place students as human beings who prepare their future critically and creatively. Teachers’ domination means killing students' criticality and creativity. Humanization of language teaching can be represented in various aspects of teaching, including in the process of preparing teaching materials, processes, and evaluation.

Использование технологии Lapbook на занятиях по иностранному языку в системе высшего иноязычного образования

The study discusses the implementation of the activity-based approach in modern educational process. Lapbook technology is a fresh language teaching technique in Russia that appeals to the creative activity of the students’ personalities, helps develop a number of skills in students, and involves their knowledge of other subjects and relevant abilities. The authors define the term ‘lapbook technology’ and provide a detailed algorithm for creating lapbooks and using them in the higher foreign language education system. Its elements and advantages are identified, and its characteristics are described as comprehensive development tools for all types of speech activity in a foreign language. The paper demonstrates the practicability of the lapbook technology in German classes in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education. The research findings can be used when teaching languages at Russian universities. Based on personal teaching experience and international studies, the authors conclude that lapbook technology is an effective foreign language teaching technique while studying and using authentic materials in the educational process.

Challenges of English Language Teaching in High Schools in Turkey and Possible Suggestions to Overcome Them

The English language curriculum prepared by the Ministry of National Education for high schools in Turkey seems to be satisfactory in theory, but the related studies about the attitudes of actual practitioners towards English classes in high schools are not detailed and comprehensive enough. This study aims to fill this gap. To do so, qualitative research was conducted with 13 English language teachers and 55 high school students from different parts of Turkey. They were asked for their opinions, applications, observations, and challenges of the English language teaching system in their high schools and some suggestions for the problematic issues were requested from them via open-ended questions. The data were analyzed descriptively; the results showed that most teachers are not satisfied with the coursebooks, crowded classes, quite limited class hours, and unmotivated students. Their main suggestions cover the privatization of education, having language libraries, labs, speaking clubs, and more lesson hours for English and decreasing the number of students in each classroom. Additionally, teachers want to attend international seminars to become aware of the latest methods/sources. Students have some valuable suggestions for the improvements as well. Nearly all of the students are unhappy about the coursebooks; thus, they suggest them to be revised. They also want to join international projects and improve their language skills. As a result of the study, suggestions covering many issues like coursebooks, assessment, teacher training, and European projects were proposed with an aim to diminish the gap between theories and applications in real classes.

Use of Web 2.0 technology tool – educational blog – in the system of foreign language teaching

This paper discusses the use of a Web 2.0 technology tool – educational blog – in the system of teaching foreign languages for enhancement of teaching effectiveness and optimization of students’ performance. The authors describe the content, characteristics and didactic properties of an educational blog as an alternative or auxiliary educational environment, define its methodological objectives and list a number of advantages of this approach versus conventional teaching model. The effectiveness of the above-mentioned Web 2.0 technology tool was confirmed by the experiment which showed that an educational blog integrated in a foreign language teaching system contributed to optimization of the process of teaching and learning, development of foreign language communicative competence of students and thereby allowed them to acquire not only communicative but also technological skills.

Współczesne koncepcje specjalistycznej edukacji językowej studentów prawa w Polsce i w Niemczech w stronę profesjonalizacji kształcenia

Glottodydaktyka europejska i polska podążają za zmieniającą się rzeczywistością kształcenia językowego, na którą wpływ mają propagowane przez Radę Europy i Unię Europejską idee różnojęzyczności i wielojęzyczności. Analiza systemu kształcenia językowego na wydziałach prawa w Polsce i w Niemczech ma na celu poznanie koncepcji kształcenia językowego polskich i niemieckich studentów prawa, szukanie nowatorskich rozwiązań dydaktyczno-metodycznych oraz sposobu wdrażania przez uczelnie standardów europejskich. Wykazanie podobieństw i różnic programowych w zakresie nauczania języków obcych na tle regulacji prawnych, dokonujących się w systemach akademickich, sprzyja wypracowaniu nowych rozwiązań dydaktycznych oraz skłania do głębszej refleksji na sposobami profesjonalnego kształcenia.

The peculiarities of teaching the language of learning to foreigners at the third level of higher education

The article highlights the peculiarities of teaching the language of learning to foreigners at the third level of higher education, which involves obtaining certain knowledge, skills, sufficient for conducting scientific research while taking a post graduate course. The communication needs and specificity of cognitive activity of graduate foreign students have been described. Teaching the language of foreign graduate students is based on the study of scientific speech, which serves the field of modern scientific activities and serves to convey objective information about the world around. The specificity of the scientific style of speech is determined by the peculiarities of the way of thinking under lying this functional style and the peculiarities of communication in the scientific sphere, the characteristics of which are objectivity, uniqueness, clarity, accuracy, logic, which can be the hallmarks of style at all its linguistic levels. Features of the scientific style of speech at the lexical and syntactic levels (deaganality, polyproposability, complexity of syntactic structures) have been considered. The genres of scientific speech (articles, dissertation, abstracts, abstract, annotations in written and oral speech speeh) and types of texts on the basis of which the training of the professional language of the specified contingent of students have been conducted. The place of abstract reading in the system of language teaching of post graduates have been considered. Abstract reading combines research and information activities and is the main type of reading while conducting scientific research, since it is directly implemented during the scholar's current state of the subject under study, the definition of a range of outstanding issues, and helps producing an informative message about the course of his own scientific work. The content for all education (report, participation in discussions) and written (writing informative and indicative abstracts, annotations, summaries, compilation of bibliographic description and list of literature) of speech at the third level of higher education have been described.