Development of future foreign language teachers' information and media skills

The article presents the authors’ experience of participation in IREX project “Learn to Discern: info-media literacy”. It reveals the theoretical grounds and nowadays demand for future foreign languages teachers’ information and media skills development as well as the practical issues of educational process. There is the description of authors’ certified course "Integration of info-media literacy into professional activity" for students of the Faculty of Philology who study foreign languages. Besides of aim and structure of the course described there are the examples of effective activities to be used in foreign language classroom. The modes of interaction preferred in the classroom are pointed, too

On the Way to Successful Learning and Teaching: Constructive Feedback

This research studies the perceptio7ns of feedback by University and school teachers, as well as the prevailing type of feedback in the participants’ teaching practice. Participants are 90 educators from Bogdan Khmelnystky Melitopol State Pedagogical University and teachers of primary and secondary schools of Melitopol and Melitopol region (Ukraine). Feedback is described as information a teacher or another learner gives to learners on how well they are doing. According to the research results, teachers mostly prefer to give oral feedback. The authors come to the conclusion that feedback should be constructive and should be focused on students’ achievements. Further perspectives of the research include raising teachers’ awareness of feedback through trainings and optional courses in pedagogical Universities, identification of strategies for providing online feedback. The research findings lay the foundation for further research of feedback as an inseparable part of learning and teaching

Digital and ICT literacy skills as one of the key competences of future foreign language teachers

Abstract The aims of this paper are to share the results of the action research of the future foreign language teachers’ digital and ICT literacy skills development and to demonstrate the opportunities for their development while pre-service teacher training process with the focus on the courses of Methodology of foreign language teaching and Practical course of foreign language as well as other positive practices. The authors present the results of comparative analysis of Ukrainian and American educational programmes for future foreign language teachers as for their opportunities to develop their digital and ICT literacy skills. The article discusses the digital and ICT literacy skills use in learning and teaching as an important component of future teachers’ training and a contribution to the university education quality and the employability of university graduates. The projects which influenced the action research elaborating are described. The results of three surveys are presented. The post-action-research stage is described as the one influenced with students’ and teachers’ participation in projects alongside with the extremely increased use of ICT in the conditions of the pandemic

Development of future foreign language teachers’ information literacy and digital skills in Ukrainian context

The aims of this paper are to share the results of the action research of the future foreign language teachers’ information literacy and digital skills development and to demonstrate the opportunities for their development while pre-service teacher training process in the course of Methodology of foreign language teaching and practical course of foreign language. The article discusses the skills of information and communication technologies use in learning and teaching as an important component of future teachers’ training and a contribution to the sustainable development of the country. The projects which influenced the action research elaborating are described. A short overview of relevant experience within the studied issue is presented. The procedure of action research is described, the examples from author-tailored course are given