The paper is devoted to one of the main multifunctional elements of any foreign language training course–multimedia presentation. The authors describe basic requirements to a presentation, its aims and advantages, consider different types of presentation tasks. Special attention is paid to the analysis of using presentations in their practical experience and feedback from students. The study allowed to examine students’ attitude to presentations considering 5 aspects such as the choice of presentation topics, students’ willingness to do this task, their self-assessment, the level of PC skills, literacy and speech competences. The questionnaire was used to analyze effectiveness of this task in different periods of time (2008-2010, 2018-2020), to prove the influence of computerization of higher education on students’ scientific and academic work, to identify the main difficulties for students in creating presentations and offer possible ways of overcoming them. The intensive use of information technologies contributes to the formation of an intellectually developed creative personality, well-oriented in the information space, ready for self-development and application of this knowledge in their future professional activities.
The project was made for students studying German as the first language at IFL PetrSU, and students of Tübingen (students and schoolchildren) and consisted of a number of online meetings with the aim of getting acquainted with the sights of twin cities, the culture of the country of the studied language and improving their speech competencies in German. One of the initiators of the meeting was the Karelian Fund for the Development of People’s Diplomacy, headed by N.V. Lavrushina. The meeting was moderated by Stephan Klingebiel, an expert of the Department of International Relations of the City Hall of Tübingen.
The article investigates the effectiveness of using television genres in promoting cross-cultural competence. The educational potential of talk shows and stand-up comedies is found to be significant as they display a wide range of features of spontaneous communication and high level of ethnic specificity, while presenting a good opportunity for organizing classroom role-playing simulations.
IntroductionDuring the pandemic, many surveys studied people’s attitude to COVID-19. However, less information is available about the peculiarities of such attitude of the most vulnerable groups including chronic somatic patients who are in need of operative treatment.ObjectivesTo identify the specificity of preoperative cardiac surgery patients’ attitudes toward COVID-19 as compared to that of healthy people.MethodsWe used the Attitudes towards COVID-19 questionnaire (Nikolaev E.) to survey 60 preoperative cardiac patients and 327 healthy university students. Difference validity was assessed with significance level of p<0.05.ResultsCardiac patients are more likely to trust the government measures to fight COVID-19 (t=3.131; p=.002), and their COVID-19-related fears for their life are higher (t=2.793; p=.005). As compared to healthy people, patients are less likely to think that pandemic broke their customary way of life (t=-2.793; p=.005) and plans for the future (t=-3.337; p=.000). Credibly more often than healthy people, cardiac surgery patients consider that it is useless to wear a mask and limit contacts, as any person will eventually catch the virus (t=2.401; p=.017). We did not reveal any more evidently expressed COVID-19-related anxiety in preoperative cardiac surgery patients.ConclusionsAttitudes of cardiac surgery patients toward COVID-19 manifest in an adequate assessment of threat to their personal health, trust in the government measures, and readiness to change their daily plans. It is latent fatalistic ideas about ultimate uselessness of restrictive measures that pose threat to people’s own health and the health of the people around them, which health professionals should remember in their preventive actions.DisclosureNo significant relationships.
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