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Image og the Teacher in Schools Websites – Representative of the School
2015
Article consists of three parts - theoretical, empirical research and recommendations for improvement the school website photo galleries. Publication analyses ideas (Weber&Mitchell, Ķestere, Kaļķe, Fischer&Kiefer, Veide) that reveal importance of the teacher's image in the representation of the school, significance of the picture and selfpromotion in the school context. The empirical study consider teacher’s image in 17 Latvian school website photo galleries and surveys 102 primary school student’s parents to find out their views on the school website photo galleries impact on the selection of the school for their children. Analysis of the theoretical literature and interpre…
The Advantages of the Network-based Electronic Teaching Package by the Implementation of English for Specific Purposes Course
2015
Abstract The article analyses the advantages of English for Specific Purposes teaching of the fourth year students majoring in “Electrical and Power Engineering” at National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University by means of the network-based electronic teaching package. This paper analyzes the structural content of the network-based electronic teaching package, shows the key approaches used to develop this tool and focuses on the description of its main components. The conclusions made are based on the results obtained over a three year period (2012-2015) of the network-based electronic teaching package use.
Occupational emerging risks affecting international virtual project Team Results
2017
The expansion of internet access, high-speed connection services, collaborative work platforms and tools, allowed employees to interact virtually offering companies the possibility to develop projects around the world, reducing operational costs and gain competitive advantage. Realizing the advantages and disadvantages of developing a project team in an international virtual work environment, requires adopting specific strategies to construct an effective team and ensure the project success. One of the most important disadvantages that we identified is that the new work environment brings new risks for both team members and managers. So, it becomes mandatory to identify and analyze the occu…
Global ELT coursebooks: A comparative study to examine if there has been any shift in proportion of cultural content in a 1st and 4th edition of Engl…
2020
In the context of English as a global language, more and more people are learning it for the purposes of L2 to L2 communication. Criticism of global coursebooks is that they still operate within an ESL, native-speaker model. This article explores the arguments that these textbooks are culturally biased in favour of the target culture. The literature and studies show that publishers have not reacted to the changes that have happened to the international nature of English, nor have they made any amendments to the content of global coursebooks in reaction to criticism. A comparative content analysis was conducted on a first edition of English file (Latham-Koenig and Oxenden 1996) and a fourth …
"Kattokaa nyt missa? se kieli on" : English and French teachers' views on pronunciation and its teaching
2015
Tutkielman tarkoituksena oli selvittää, mitä mieltä suomalaiset englannin ja ranskan opettajat ovat ääntämisen roolista kieltenopetuksessa, ja millaisin keinoin he tukevat oppilaidensa ääntämisen oppimista. Alan kansainvälisessä tutkimuksessa olettamus on usein, että opettajat opettavat omaa äidinkieltään, joten halusin tällä tutkimuksella myös selvittää, miten suomalaiset kieltenopettajat kokevat oman roolinsa opettamiensa kielten ei-syntyperäisinä puhujina. Tutkielma on luonteeltaan laadullinen, ja sen aineisto kerättiin haastattelemalla viittä opettajaa, joista jokainen opettaa tai on opettanut sekä englantia että ranskaa, joko peruskoulu- tai lukiotasolla. Haa…
Teaching the pronunciation of English as an international language : suggestions for constructing a syllabus for Finnish learners
2012
Kieltä ei voi puhua ääntämättä sitä, minkä vuoksi ääntäminen luonnollisesti kuuluu osaksi vieraan kielen oppimista ja opettamista. Ääntämisen kuten minkä tahansa kielen osa-alueen opettaminen perustuu valittuun malliin ja standardiin. Suomalaisessa englannin kielen opetuksessa ihanteellisena mallina ja tavoitteena on tähän saakka useimmiten käytetty britti ja/tai amerikanenglannin niin sanottua standardisoitua muotoa, joka on kodifioitu lukuisissa oppaissa, sanakirjoissa ja oppimateriaaleissa. Tästä mallista poikkeamista on pidetty virheenä ja esimerkiksi vahvan aksentin ilmenemistä epätoivottavana tai jopa nolona. Tiedetään, että natiivin kaltaisen aksentin omaksuminen vieraassa kielessä o…
Exploring Finnish university students' perceived level of critical thinking
2015
Critical thinking is believed to be a 21 st century skill that many employers consider crucial when hiring recent graduates. However, it is debated whether critical thinking should be taught in academic foreign language courses at the tertiary level, which primarily aim to develop students’ language and communication skills. This localized, exploratory research examines Finnish university students’ self-reported critical thinking skills and dispositions after completing the compulsory academic English courses. The aim of the research is to examine what skills and dispositions students feel competent in, and discover if there is a correlation between students’ self-reported critical thinking…
A fordítás és közvetítés változó szerepe az idegennyelv-oktatásban: a tudományos nézőpontok közeledése
2014
In multilingual and multicultural contexts, individuals who speak foreign languages but are not translation professionals increasingly engage in oral or written translation and language mediation activities both at the workplace and in everyday life. These formal or informal translational actions are connected to various formal or informal interactions for a variety of purposes, and are often done on an ad hoc basis. In applied linguistics, more and more authors emphasize that integrating translation with foreign language learning and teaching not only has a number of benefits related to language learning, but can serve more general educational purposes as well. Unfortunately, translation h…
ELF in the classroom : Finnish upper secondary school students' attitudes towards ELF
2014
Englannin kielen asema maailmalla on muuttunut merkittävästi viime vuosikymmenten aikana ja se on saavuttanut vahvan aseman kansainvälisenä kielenä. Se toimii myös yhä enenevissä määrin maailmanlaajuisena lingua francana ei-äidinkielisten englannin kielen puhujien välisessä kommunikaatiossa. Englannin kielen roolin muuttumisen myötä, myös englannin kielen opetukseen on vaadittu muutoksia. On ehdotettu, että nykyisen englannin standardi varieteetteja, mm. amerikanenglanti ja brittienglanti, painottavan mallin sijaan, englannin opetuksen tulisi mukailla enemmän lingua franca -englanti (ELF) mallia. Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää lukiolaisten asenteita ELF:iä ja sen opettamista ko…
ENGLISH LINGUISTICS IN MOTIVATING CLIL STUDENT TEACHERS
2019
Research on teacher motivation has recently given evidence of being closely related to several variables such as pre-service and in-service teacher training, educational reform, teaching practice, student motivation, work environment, psychological fulfilment and general health conditions. Taking into consideration the most recent studies on EFL teacher motivation across different disciplines and cultures, this paper aims at sharing the author’s personal experience with colleagues who have taught in CLIL trainee courses for High School content teachers. The results of the project, carried out in university run-courses from 2013 to 2017, have shown that teaching certain linguistic aspects (s…