Comparative analysis of oral and computer based types of assessment in teaching English for students of economics, business and finance

Grigorieva, Elena V.; Ismagilova, Liliya R.; Solodkova, Irina M.

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20162601131

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“…Thus, the students' audience is more diverse as well as their needs and expectations, which may vary in accordance with cultural and educational background, language knowledge and attitude towards education on the whole (Grigorieva et al, 2015). Under these circumstances there is a growing necessity for academic teachers to revise their teaching practices to provide high quality tertiary education and engage students into the learning process.…”

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Time For A Change: Defining The Academic Teacher’s Brand Pillars

Sungatullina¹

2017

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Tertiary education worldwide has undergone profound changes recently stemming from internationalization, significant academic migration and transformed students community. Transforming environment sets new requirements not only for the curriculum, but for the people, delivering the contents of academic disciplines. The idea of the research, conducted among teachers and students of the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance (IMEF), Kazan Federal University (KFU), is to explore the teacher's perception of their classroom performance as well as the students' attitude to teachers with the view to develop the pillars for a competent tertiary teacher's brand.The results of the undertaken research prove that the corner stone of the problem is the teaching competences of the academics or pillars as we describe them. The challenge here is that most of the tertiary teachers who work in Russian higher educational institutions (HEIs) lack a degree in education, which predetermines pedagogic content knowledge along with subject matter knowledge. However, most of respondents participating in the survey highlight the importance of the former for a successful teaching career.Therefore, the students of the IMEF as well as the teachers feel the necessity to transform the teaching process at the university and to define the pillars of teacher's brand that would contribute to the global recognition of the whole university.

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Time For A Change: Defining The Academic Teacher’s Brand Pillars

Sungatullina¹

2017

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…At the next stage, students receive information about the system of the British and American economy. The main thing in the forming motivation to study FL in a non-linguistic institution is to demonstrate the practical importance of knowledge, the possibility to use it in future professional activities (Grigorieva et al, 2015). While learning FL students participate in round table discussions, scientific and practical conferences, develop collective and individual projects along with accomplishing practical exercises (Ismagilova & Polyakova, 2016).…”

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What Drives Students of Vocational Training Program? An Investigation on the Significance of Foreign Language Acquisition

Solodkova¹,

Grigorieva²,

Ismagilova³

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The paper dwells on the distinguishing the motives that drive students of vocational training program in terms of foreign language acquisition being the main component of future employment success. In fastchanging world which is teemed with new challenges and career patterns foreign language acquisition is viewed as a foremost aspects of promotion. The aim of the current study was to identify the main motives that drive students of vocational training program for foreign language acquisition and later equip higher education authorities and teaching staff with the data to improve language education complying with the students' requirements. To find out internal and external motives of the students enrolled to the program at The Educational Center for Professional Communicative Training of Kazan Federal University a questionnaire survey was organized. The results of the research identify that there are differences in students' priorities of external and internal motives and there is a prevalence of the internal ones. It is accounted for by the fact that students of the program realize the significance of foreign language acquisition for their personal needs and future professional activity. But practically all of them emphasized the same personal and interpersonal factors of internal motivation. The obtained findings will be exploited as recommendations in designing the syllabus and will be of great help in choosing the appropriate forms and techniques in carrying out the course.

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“…Students' screen literacy advocate for the quality of language education (Grigorieva, Elena V., et al, 2016). Following this idea, English language teachers must construct the syllabus and a concrete lesson plan on those teaching strategies which appeal to the discussed generation of students.…”

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Acquisition of Socio-Cultural Competence via Dynamic Learning Environment

Solodkova¹,

Ismagilova²

2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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The global, political, and business processes raised the problem of socio-cultural competence and the formation of tolerance in cross-cultural communication. The issue gets its importance due to technological development and the necessity for specialists to be involved in constant relations. Foreign language skill is an integral component of the attractiveness of vocational specialist and the tool that helps one to move ahead quickly in today's business world. It is also a method to build professional culture, to develop a broad, holistic and encyclopedic viewpoint. The introduction of socio-cultural competence in teaching Business English will help students to have the idea about socio-cultural peculiarities in overseas business activities, thereby, providing opportunity to be fitted in the international business community. This paper aims to give a comprehensive account of dynamic learning environment (DLE) in teaching socio-cultural capabilities and its benefits to knowledge durability. DLE enables students to be immersed in the study material, and observe the situations of real business communication practices. The experiment was conducted with undergraduates (aged 18-19) of KFU within English language classes. The groups were taught with and without DLE involvement. Real groups observation, questionnaires, comparative analysis of Moodle and common classroom practices provided data for the research. The experiment proved that acquisition of socio-cultural capabilities is organized more efficiently via DLE. The authors also combine the results with the peculiarities of subjects who represent the new generation of computer and gadget literate community. Exploiting the specificity of new generation perception, the authors recommend to use the findings for the construction of syllabuses.

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Comparative analysis of oral and computer based types of assessment in teaching English for students of economics, business and finance

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Time For A Change: Defining The Academic Teacher’s Brand Pillars

Time For A Change: Defining The Academic Teacher’s Brand Pillars

What Drives Students of Vocational Training Program? An Investigation on the Significance of Foreign Language Acquisition

Acquisition of Socio-Cultural Competence via Dynamic Learning Environment

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