The Journal of Language Research and Teaching Practice

Opportunities for change and Daring Greatly through the prism of Action Research Study

2019-06-17T07:00:59+00:00

The article deals with the result of the action research study aimed at exploring the impact of the epistemic position of the opportunity for the self-development critical and critical thinking, task-based performance, strategy training and reflection on the academic achievement of PhD students and development of their self-determined scientific-research competence in the educational process on the basis of the Matrix Programme. The participants were 33 PhD first-year students of Abylai khan Kazakh University and World Languages. The data obtained in the action research deepened our understanding of how the incorporation and increase of self-dependent work contribute to the development of PhD students' professional and scientific research competence, keen focus on the strategies and self-evaluation in the framework of cognitive linguacultural paradigm. Qualitatively all the students made a noticeable improvement in the course study. The results obtained confirmed our assumption that the most significant thing is daring greatly for changes and innovations that can provide high quality in FL education.

Some features of a case method in the formation of foreign language communicative competence of students

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The relevance of the article touches upon the issue of professional training of specialists. From this point of view in the educational curriculum of the specialty 5В011900 “Foreign language: two foreign languages” the foreign language is positioned as one of the priority disciplines. The methods of case are considered as an effective means of teaching a professional oriented foreign language in a non-linguistic university. The advantages of using the case methods in teaching professional oriented foreign language in a non-linguistic university are considered in the article.

The role of digital educational resources (DER) in the field of education in teaching a foreign language in a new paradigm of education

2019-06-17T07:00:59+00:00

The article is devoted to the use of the digital educational resources (DER) in modern realities as an effective teaching tool, which activates the mental activity of students, makes it possible to make the learning process attractive and interesting. This is a powerful incentive to increase motivation to master a foreign language. The article is based on the idea of using modern technologies and digital educational resources in teaching foreign language.

The formation of pedagogical specialties students’ discursive competence in the language higher educational institution within dialogue discourse using communicative situations on foreign language practical classes

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The article discusses the essential characteristics of discourse, dialogue discourse and discursive competence. At the present stage of development of the methodology of foreign language education, the formation of discursive competence in the framework of dialogue discourse occupies a special place. Dialogue turns from a certain type of communication into a dialogic type of culture, which is constantly evolving and undergoing some changes. Therefore, the dialogue discourse is of particular interest to the authors of the article, and describes the method of forming discursive competence in the framework of dialogue discourse using communicative situations in practical classes of foreign language. The degree of the students’ intercultural und communicative competence formation depends on the level of the discursive competence formation, which is the aim of foreign language education in Kazakhstan at the present stage of the development of methodological thought.

Practical application and advantages of information technology training in the educational process of higher education

2019-06-17T07:00:59+00:00

The article considers possibilities of application of information and communication technologies in higher education. The main objective of the article is to justify and substantiate distance learning as a new form of learning. In the article the analysis of forms of education, the main directions of development of distance learning, the differences of distance learning from the traditional. Highlighted problems to be solved by students and teachers in distance education. It is shown that the effectiveness of distance learning is determined by the use of pedagogical techniques that underlie the design and implementation of online courses. It is concluded that distance learning can be considered as an independent form of learning.

The innovations in “foreign language” educational area within the context of the modern educational paradigm

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This article examines the theoretical aspects of the innovations in foreign language education within the modern educational paradigm.

The digital technology: past, present and future

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This article examines the notion of the term “digital technology”. And the authors aim to analyze and discuss the usage of technology in the past, present and future. Three main stages of using computer technologies in the teaching of foreign languages are discussed in this article. Also it is reviewed how today digital technology should be used by educators in the classroom, as a resource for teaching EFL. This discussion arose from the analysis by the second year students of the Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages (KazUIR&WL) at which the digital technology (online tool) has gained recognition of its potential by students. And types of digital technologies of future are discussed as well.

Postmodernity and proactive educational environment

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We live in a time that is marked by the characteristics of a society that most modern researchers call postmodernity (Sarup, 1993). This trend, which emerged as an eclectic movement in aesthetics and philosophy, today manifests in all spheres of humanities and life - philosophy, psychology, sociology, ethnology, demography, etc.

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in the proactive educational environment

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Learning as the main activity of the learner (student, postgraduate, enhancing its qualification, etc.) is a defining concept of "environment for learning "," learning environment "," engaging learning environments ", etc.

Text and Discourse in Nominative Grammar and Communicative Grammar

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The article examines the problem of text and discourse which became central to contemporary linguistics. This issue is crucial and became subject of linguistics since resolving it will affect not just the understanding of language but also the disciplinary structure of linguistics. General study of text and discourse is related to various approaches to them and reflects identification of attributes which differentiate and combine them. The latter includes recognition of a connection between text and discourse with speech activity. Simultaneously, concept of “discourse” is broader than concept of “text”. Discourse represents “live”, dynamic meaning creation and generation of original text within speech activity. Text outside of discourse is abstracted from speech activity but still related as a preserved in memory, reproducible secondary artifact. The principal process of discourse is meaning creation and transfer of its products – communicative function. Text preserves and accumulates the results of learning; therefore, nominative function becomes primary. Functional divergence of text and discourse is ensured by use of different language means and models which dictates division of grammar onto nominative branch, which is services text along with other nominative units, and communicative one, which services discourse and speech outcomes. Functional divergence of text and discourse is also demonstrated by their typology, speech registers and register variants, forming nominative and communicative register paradigms.