Every year the problem of higher educational establishments’ modernization, introduction of the newest methods and strategies of educational process reorganization, estimation of achievements in the context of information technologies becomes more and more urgent. The situation with the COVID-2019 pandemic has demonstrated the need to involve additional information approaches to teaching within the system of blended learning in higher educational establishments. As a result, the question arises: what mechanisms can be used to make learning effective? The article reveals the concept of “microlearning” as the latest approach in education and identifies its key tools in formation of English-language competencies in university students. The study found that microlearning can be an effective complement to traditional learning, as it extends the learning process beyond the classroom on the basis of information technology, allows consolidating virtually and deepening the knowledge gained during practical classes, and provokes students to daily communication outside the establishment through social network. Moreover, we propose a strategy for implementation of microlearning on the example of the educational process at Kherson State Maritime Academy through interaction of practical classes in the line of communicative-competency approach, virtual and online learning on the principle of rotation.
The article substantiates that large-scale implementation of information technologies will facilitate methodological support of future foreign language teachers' linguistic self-education. The main functions and advantages of the author's multimedia training package "English for Self-Education", designed to support future foreign language teachers' linguistic self-educational activities, are characterized. It is defined that the package is an open-ended multipurpose programmatic learning system, containing didactic, methodological, informational and reference materials. The package is based on general pedagogical, ergonomic and specific principles of informatization of education. It has a dual structure, which includes two levels. The first level contains 1) lexical-informational component that provides working with lexical and theoretical material, 2) training element, which enables practicing knowledge and skills, as well as mastering methods and means of autonomous managing, regulating and correcting the process of linguistic self-education, 3) control aspect, which allows realizing independent monitoring and evaluating the degree and quality of acquired knowledge and skills. The second level considerably extends didactic possibilities and educational resources of the package. It covers a wide range of extra learning materials of theoretical and practical nature that are available both in the package itself and beyond its limits through providing the access to the "virtual reality" within external resources of global network. All the above not only makes for activating students' cognitive activity but also significantly enriches their language and sociocultural practice. The package enables comprehensive independent study of a foreign language, exercising selfdiagnostics in order to detect gaps in the student's foreign-language competence, performing intensive linguistic self-educational activities, constant monitoring the level of autonomously mastered foreign-language material, carrying out search for information, etc. Thus, the package provides optimal conditions for future foreign language teachers' linguistic selfeducational activities. Students have an opportunity to actualize the adaptive algorithm of building the individual trajectory of linguistic self-education in accordance with their psychological features and personal educational needs. It is shown that working with the package results in students' receiving an external and internal educational products, namely improving foreign-language knowledge and skills, along with gaining personal experience of linguistic self-educational activities. It is grounded by the example of the proposed package that comprehensive use of IT significantly optimizes the process of linguistic self-education.
The paper provides a retrospective analysis of foreign experience of linguistic self-education in the second half of the 20th century. It is shown that reaching the current level of students’ training for life-long linguistic self-education requires understanding of socio-historical, pedagogical and practical experience, which reveals the logic of development and formation of linguistic self-education as an educational phenomenon, as well as determinants and factors which have been influencing this development. Having studied a wide range of sources, we can state that the issues concerning self-education have always been topical problems of scientific knowledge. However, for many centuries in the world pedagogical theory and practice linguistic self-education as such was not regarded as a separate pedagogical phenomenon, but instead, it was only the applied and general educational value of learning foreign languages which was taken into consideration. We have defined that the essence and forms of linguistic self-education depending on historical, economic, political and social factors changed in different years and determined both by the logic of educational development in general and the needs of the society as whole as well as certain individuals to master foreign languages. The period from the middle of the 20th to the beginning of the 21st century became a revolutionary stage in the development of the theory and practice of foreign language self-education. We found that the impetus for the intensive development of a methodology for adults’ self-instruction in foreign languages was the historic events of World War II. The method of “on-the-spot linguistic analysis” was introduced. This method became the basis for special research on autonomous learning of foreign languages by adults, and later – for linguistic self-education. In the 50-60s of the 20th century, foreign language and sociocultural training was first recognized at the international legislative level. Audiolingual and audiovisual methods became widespread back then. In the 70s and 80s of the 20th century, theoretical developments and practical experience in the field of independent study of foreign languages, as well as singling out the concept of “autonomous learning” as a separate pedagogical category became a driving force for the formation and development of linguistic self-education. Since the 80s of the 20th century, along with the theoretical developments, the practice of foreign language self-education has been actively developing and improving. In the present-day system of higher education in Western countries, self-educational activities in learning foreign languages are equated to traditional organizational forms of educational activities. At the beginning of the 21st century, the innovative methods of self-instruction of foreign languages are gradually being introduced into the educational process at a number of European universities. Thus, having implemented the retrospective analysis of foreign experience in foreign language selfeducation we can conclude that in the second half of the 20th century important prerequisites were created for distinguishing the concept of linguistic self-education into a separate category of language didactics and a specific type of educational activities.
The article substantiates that in modern conditions the core didactic principle of higher education should be the transition from teaching to self-education, which is regarded by contemporary native researchers as the highest stage of education. Social trends in the world have, in their turn, actualized the need to revise the conceptual system of views on the theory and practice of language self-instruction. The result of expanding the range of research issues of training students for independent acquisition of foreign language knowledge, as a kind of alternative to institutional education, was the introduction into scientific circulation of new categories, concepts and terms. Along with theoretical developments, the practice of linguistic self-education is being actively improved. New and already known methods of independent mastering foreign languages are emerging. It is typical of foreign higher education that productive self-educational activities increasingly permeate all the basic elements of the educational process and become its defining feature. In particular, special courses on linguistic autodidactics are introduced in higher educational establishments, the so-called “independent study” becomes widespread, students develop their own individual curriculum, which is carried out through the student’s free organization of his/her educational process and so on. Thus, a new dimension in teaching foreign languages has been introduced into existing educational technologies, namely: “learning to learn”, which meets the recommendations of the Council of Europe. Up to date the fundamental scientific and theoretical base, which covers important aspects of theory and practice of foreign language self-education, has been formed in native pedagogical science. Contemporary researchers recognize the training of future professionals for lifelong learning as one of the main factors of implementing the latest paradigm of higher education. With that self-education in the field of foreign languages is considered as the basic factor of forming the secondary language personality. It is particularly important to work out methodological support and appropriate technologies of “learning to learn”, aimed at equipping students with necessary skills of foreign language self-education. Researchers also comprehensively study the peculiarities of the organization and modern methods of autonomous mastering foreign languages.
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