Work with Foreign Scientific Editions as an Effective Factor in Motivating Undergraduates to Improve their Foreign Language Competency

• Authors: Iryne O. Mazaikina , Dmytro I. Kolomiiets

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to the problem of increase of the pedagogical universities undergraduates’ motivation to develop their foreign language competency. The main reasons necessitating continuous increase of the foreign language competence level have been determined. Utilizing such research methods as the focus group survey, theoretical generalization, comparison and pedagogical experiment, it has been proved that the maximum inclusion of students in foreign language activities with professional scientific information is an effective factor in increasing the professional orientation of the foreign languages learning by the future teachers. This type of work in the process of studying various academic disciplines provides a positive dynamics of the motivation components and readiness of the future teachers to work with scientific foreign-language information. It has been shown that netnographic analysis of the foreign-language scientific publications is also an effective factor in personal and professional development, socio-cultural communication, and the students’ mobility in professional and academic environment.

Keywords

EN

internationalization of education; foreign scientific information; netnographic analysis; motivational factors; undergraduates; increase of foreign language competency; future teachers; scientific publications

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 60
• Pages: 96-107

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Iryne O. Mazaikina

• Vinnytsia National Pirogov Memorial Medical University

author

Dmytro I. Kolomiiets

• Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.20.60.2.08

Biblioteka Nauki

1963542