PERCEPTION OF THE ANIMATED MOVIES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (BASED ON THE ESP COURSE FOR THE BIOTECHNOLOGY STUDENTS)
PERCEPTION OF THE ANIMATED MOVIES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (BASED ON THE ESP COURSE FOR THE BIOTECHNOLOGY STUDENTS)

Summary/Abstract: The teachers of National University of Food Technologies, upon delivering the course “English for Specific Purposes” to the first-year students majoring in biotechnology, affirm the artistic education as the important factor of forming professional skills and abilities, which is evident in using the animated movies as much frequently. Primarily, these movies are retrieved from the Internet and then spoken in class; furthermore, the students get eager to make such cartoons on their own. Hence the purpose of this work is to confirm the esthetic and educational role of animated movies applied to teaching and learning the basics of foreign language for biotechnologists; to achieve this purpose, the didactic, perceptive esthetics, scientific modeling, and communication methods were used. Traditionally, the characters of educational animated movies are not only people, but also, even far more frequently, unanimated objects; this is why the first-year students gets involved in such a creative work, developing their language competencies as well as the team work skills. Generally, the first step of figuring out an animated movie is writing a script; the practice shows that any specific reading text from an ESP workbook can be transformed into an interesting and capacious story. The next stage is selection of visual images: unlike any action movie, an animated one is able to display the momentary transformations of one object into another and teleportation from one location to another, which is an expedient method to give as much material within a short period of time. Finally, the cartoon is planned to be presented and discussed in class. Overall, it was asserted that working with animated movies represents the motivational pedagogical phenomenon: for a teacher, it is to reveal one’s awareness of various areas of science; for a student, it is to apply the creative approach to comprehend the foreign-language material, to boost the skills to analyze and furthermore to present it successfully. On the other hand, it is the good method to organize language learning and to self-assess the individual skills and abilities in language mastering as well as in profile subjects to be taught in English.

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