WebQuests are increasingly becoming popular in teaching English as a foreign language since they provide learners with authentic and collaborative tasks. The aim of this study was to explore whether using WebQuests is effective in enhancing writing and reading performance of students at a university level. The experimental groups were taught through traditional instruction with the elements of WebQuests as additional reading and writing activities. The control groups had the traditional ESL lessons only. Significant differences occurred in the experimental groups in reading and writing performance in the post-tests.Comparing these results with those of the pre-tests, the authors draw a conclusion that using WebQuests can enhance students’ reading and writing performance. The findings of this study indicate that WebQuests have potential in enhancing reading and writing abilities of students.
The article reveals conceptual principles of creating technology for designing transport and logistics schemes for harvesting, reloading and transportation of grain crops with their flexible adaptation to specific agronomic, technical, natural production, economic and numerous conditions during their harvest. The authors presented the results of system-analytical studies of problem, which formed practical consulting document, which allows the offender in specific conditions to determine choice of optimal transport and logistics schemes for harvesting and transporting crops to granaries. The concept of developing such a document for synthesis of logistics technologies for harvesting and transporting grain involves three stages. The authors described the technology to achieve the result, which does not require without great need to conduct complex, long-term and costly field experiments. In addition, the article made it clear that this approach should be used to solve complex problems, to implement intelligent projects of high complexity. The problem posed in article undoubtedly belongs to this class of problems. The main emphasis is placed on conceptual nature of work and at least the results of first stage of inductive technologies of system information-analytical research are given. The authors, based on complexity and significant lack of initial information base, planned to implement the project on inductive technology.
Tasks, questions and practical tasks is an effective didactic way, which makes active creative activity of the person. The constructive thinking carried out at the decision of creative tasks is considered.
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