Online Communication Tools in Teaching Foreign Languages for Education Sustainability
| Наименование публикации | Online Communication Tools in Teaching Foreign Languages for Education Sustainability |
| Тип публикации | Статья |
| Библиографическое описание | Nikita Martyushev, Anna Shutaleva, Elena Malushko, Zhanna Nikonova, Irina Savchenko. Online Communication Tools in Teaching Foreign Languages for Education Sustainability // Sustainability 2021, 13, 11127. https://doi.org/10.3390/ su131911127 (Скопус, Q1)) |
| Аннотация | Higher education curricula are developed based on creating conditions for implementing many professional and universal competencies. In Russia, one of the significant competencies for a modern specialist is business communication in oral and written forms in the Russian language and a foreign language. Therefore, teaching students to write in a foreign language is one of the modern requirements for young specialists’ professional training. This article aimed to study the tools of online communication that are used in teaching foreign languages. The article presents the results of an empirical study and analysis of factors of application of online communication technologies in foreign languages teaching, synchronous and asynchronous means used in online learning, and the advantages of integrating online communication tools into the educational process of teaching a foreign language. The study of the advantages and disadvantages of educational platforms is based on an analysis of information and online communication technologies used in the educational process. Based on the example of teaching a foreign language, the article shows how online communication platforms are involved in the educational process. Furthermore, the teachers’ and students’ opinions are presented on how online platforms are convenient. The survey involved 928 first-year students and 76 foreign language teachers of Volgograd State University (Volgograd), Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod (Nizhny Novgorod), Tomsk Polytechnic University (Tomsk), Ural Federal University, named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (Ekaterinburg). It was revealed that the integration of online communication tools has positive effects on the formation and development of written communication skills. |
| Ключевые cлова | e-learning; online communication; teaching foreign languages; educational platforms |
| Год публикации | 2021 |
| Автор(ы) |
Nikita Martyushev
Anna Shutaleva
Zhanna Nikonova
Irina Savchenko
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| Электронная копия публикации | - |