BLOGGING AS A TOOL FOR ORGANIZING STUDENTS‟ INDEPENDENT WORK
BLOGGING AS A TOOL FOR ORGANIZING STUDENTS‟ INDEPENDENT WORK

Summary/Abstract: ICT and blogging, in particular, are the tools that are not fully described in the scientific and pedagogical literature on foreign language learning. Due to the need for competent technical university graduates it is important to increase the quality of foreign language training in a technical university. To do this, it is necessary to solve the problem of stimulating students‘ independent work. This study suggests that blogging as an ICT tool is especially useful in addressing this challenge. Based on the past and present academic research we have developed the model focused on organizing students‘ independent work via blogging and forming their professional foreign language competence, i.e. their ability to communicate on a professional topic using a foreign language. This model involves a number of well-known methodological approaches, such as competence-based, learner-focused and thesaurus approaches; to evaluate the results of students‘ independent work the method of group expert evaluation is used. In order to test the efficiency of the model in question, a pedagogical experiment was conducted with second-year students of M.T. Kalashnikov ISTU. The results of this experiment indicate the effectiveness of the applied model. The recommendations on how to apply this model in a technical university, possible challenges with its use and the ways to address them are provided.

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