The end of the kingdom of Judah and its echoes in the Jewish calendar

© 2020, Slovenska Vzdelavacia Obstaravacia. All rights reserved. This article analyzes exegetically and historically the end of the Kingdom of Judah, identifying and subsequently interpreting its echoes in the Jewish Calendar. The books of TaNaKh serve as the primary resource. The fate of the chosen people of Israel was intricately linked to the presence of God in the midst of His people as represented by the Temple. Therefore, the loss of the Jerusalem Temple entailed profound feelings of loss, forsakenness, even hopelessness. The accompanying loss of land and basic religious and political institutions engendered a cycle of mourning and repentance at the end of which a glimpse of hope emerges of a future renewal of Jerusalem. The cycle of excruciating sorrow, mournful repentance, and signs of hopeful renewal are reflected in the liturgy and Jewish Calendar

ESP blended learning based on the use of smart coursebook

ESP teaching in the blended learning environment has become quite widespread in language classes worldwide. The purpose of this present study is to outline an effectiveness of ESP blended learning based on the use of the smart coursebook. A total of 48 EFL undergraduate students of a non-linguistic university participated in the study. The experimental group studied the target course through blended learning strategies, and their performance was evaluated through comparing the results got from a pretest and post-test, respectively, to check the effectiveness of ESP blended learning based on the use of the smart coursebook. Questionnaires were also conducted to identify students’ evaluation of the ESP blended learning. It was observed that the participants of the study perceived BL to be useful and helpful for the improvement of their English proficiency. The findings show that the participants in the experimental group received higher scores for their post-test at the end of the study. © 2018, Slovenska Vzdelavacia Obstaravacia. All rights reserved

Peculiarities of using creative neologisms in publicistic texts

Creative neologisms are a strategic unit of communication, increasing the importance of modern publistic texts. The paper aims to consider the phenomenon of creative neologisms by the example of text fragments of English-language newspapers and to implement an adequate classification of creative neologisms. The relevance of studying creative neologisms in modern publicistic texts is due to the fact that they can be considered as the linguistic and discursive potential of a publicistic text. The methodological basis for the research comprises method of linguistic-stylistic analysis based on Sánchez’s typology (2016) of the creative neologisms according to their construction devices. The findings suggest that the potential of using creative neologisms in the publicistic texts is high though the percentage of literary creative devices is rather unstable as compared with the formal ones. Although the corpus study is not very big, this trend is quite visible. The experiment has also shown that the level of students’ awareness of literary creative devices that are less frequently used in the publicistic texts is high and can be explained by the differences in perception of creative neologisms by the writers and readers, though this assumption requires further research. © 2019, Slovenska Vzdelavacia Obstaravacia. All rights reserved

ESP blended learning based on the use of smart coursebook

ESP teaching in the blended learning environment has become quite widespread in language classes worldwide. The purpose of this present study is to outline an effectiveness of ESP blended learning based on the use of the smart coursebook. A total of 48 EFL undergraduate students of a non-linguistic university participated in the study. The experimental group studied the target course through blended learning strategies, and their performance was evaluated through comparing the results got from a pretest and post-test, respectively, to check the effectiveness of ESP blended learning based on the use of the smart coursebook. Questionnaires were also conducted to identify students’ evaluation of the ESP blended learning. It was observed that the participants of the study perceived BL to be useful and helpful for the improvement of their English proficiency. The findings show that the participants in the experimental group received higher scores for their post-test at the end of the study. © 2018, Slovenska Vzdelavacia Obstaravacia. All rights reserved

Didactic potential of using mobile technologies in the development of mathematical thinking

© 2020 by the authors. The relevance of the research is due to additional opportunities to improve the quality of teaching mathematics in a digital school, support professional orientation and self-determination of young people through the inclusion of mobile services and platforms in mathematical activities. The research problem is determined by the following contradictions: 1) between the capabilities of modern digital technologies in terms of improving the quality of mathematical training, the formation of universal skills required by the economy of the future, and the model implemented by educational institutions; 2) between the need to provide resources for solving problems of a socio-economic nature in the conditions of the fourth industrial revolution and the insufficient level of mathematical literacy of graduates. The purpose of this research is to study the didactic potential of mobile technologies to support mathematical education in a digital school while preparing specialists of the future. Moreover, the research offers a methodological approach to organize project activities of developing applications in terms of increasing the effectiveness of teaching mathematics and vocational guidance. The article clarifies the concepts "mathematical thinking", "mathematical literacy" for a digital school and describes the didactic principles of incorporating mobile resources into the educational space which increase the efficiency of training engineers of the future, support vocational guidance and self-determination. The author offers methodological methods and recommendations for organizing creative interdisciplinary project activities in order to develop mobile applications that contribute to the formation of qualities and skills forming the basis of mathematical thinking. The materials of the article can be used: firstly, to ensure the personalization of mathematical training in the course of creative, interdisciplinary, cognitive research activities of students while developing mobile applications, social integration and vocational guidance; secondly, to change the concept of mathematical education at school; thirdly, to improve the implemented model of education based on the traditional trajectory "preschool education-school-university-additional education" in the context of the new requirements of business, society, and the state for the training of highly qualified professionals in the professions of the future

Determining Expert Opinions of the Faculty of Education on the Development of Distance Learning Course

© 2020. iJET. All Rights Reserved. A modern education system where students and faculty members are not obliged to come to the campus, where live, video, audio and interactive courses are taught in a fully virtual environment with face-to-face university education is called distance education. Based on the technological developments, the importance of distance education has also been revealed. The aim of this study is to determine the opinions of experts on the development of the ‘distance education’ course brought to the teacher training programmes. The participants of the study were selected from the purposeful sampling types with maximum diversity, criteria and easily accessible sampling methods. The data obtained as a result of interviews with experts from Northern Cyprus and Russian Universities were subjected to content analysis with a qualitative approach. In this study, which was designed as a case study, 20 academicians from 3 different departments working in the education faculty were included. In the study, a semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers was used as the data collection tool. Interviews were recorded with their consent. The data obtained as a result of interviews with experts were subjected to content analysis with a qualitative approach. As a result of the research, the experts reported teacher competencies, course application and system-oriented views for the development of the distance learning course

Solving math problems through the principles of scientific creativity

© 2020 by the authors. Ongoing changes in mental and personal characteristics of the modern child initiate the updating of means and forms of education. And they, in their turn, update methodological techniques and approaches to the use of methods during the math class. The source of updating methodological techniques may be the principles used when solving scientific problems. Scientific creativity traditionally systematizes knowledge and skills for their use to a wide range of sciences. Therefore, the principles of scientific creativity have a lot in common with different subjects, showing the student the unity of approaches in working with knowledge. In this regard, the article is aimed at substantiating the principles of scientific creativity as effective methodological techniques for finding solutions to math problems and, on their basis, developing recommendations for conducting classes that prepare for final certification at school in mathematics. The leading research methods in this case are: observation of the methodological work of teachers of mathematics, conversations with teachers, analysis of guidance papers and questionnaires of teachers, statistical processing of research results. In 2018-2019 the experiment in which 19 mathematics teachers took part was conducted. Based on its results the authors of the article succeeded in: highlighting the principles of finding solutions to math problems based on the approaches used in scientific creativity; developing and implementing on the basis of these principles recommendations for conducting classes that prepare for final certification at school in mathematics. The effectiveness of using the principles of finding solutions to math problems was assessed. It allowed the authors to conclude that students have an increase in the speed of finding solutions to math problems by an average of 11%. Practical use of the proposed principles makes it possible to organize training for schoolchildren in solving math problems in traditional forms of teaching, but taking into account the particularities of the development of the modern schoolchild. Methodological recommendations developed by the authors can be used to teach students how to find solutions to math problems during classes that prepare for final certification at school in mathematics