Development of future engineers' critical thinking in foreign language teaching

Among the key professional competences of future engineers the most attention is devoted to their abilities for critical analysis of the offered information, putting forward and refuting a hypothesis, establishing cause-and-effect relationships, arguing, and estimating. The paper deals with the actual technologies of students' critical thinking development. A study conducted at Kazan Volga Region Federal University, proved the effectiveness of the following methods of students' critical thinking development in foreign language teaching: the use of questions that guide the course of thinking and develop the future specialists' intellectual skills and project-based learning. © 2013 IEEE

The development of professional mobility of teachers in supplemental education system

© 2016 Valeeva and Amirova.Actual continuity of the problems stated in this article caused by the fact that modern education is directed at the formation of a mobile person of the teacher, who is able to transform the educational reality and himself in accordance with the requirements of a developing society, and to provide not only high-quality mastering studying the necessary content, but also the development of their personal qualities. The purpose of the article is to develop content-technological aspects of professional mobility of teachers in supplemental education system. The leading methods of research were: interdisciplinary analysis and data synthesis of the philosophical, sociological, natural-scientific, psychological and educational literature; analysis of foreign and domestic psychological and pedagogical experience for the formation of a mobile person in the educational systems; conversation, written survey, interviewing teachers and heads of educational institutions, the method of expert evaluations and self-evaluations; a method of self-managed adults, summarizing these results and ascertaining the formative experiment. The article reveals the essential characteristics (integrity, complementarity, coherence) and structure (personal activity, willingness to perform social roles, adaptability and creativity), formed the conceptual and categorical apparatus of personal mobility, specifications for the detection of the level of its development are proposed, psychological nature of personal mobility the teacher as a value-semantic constructs are disclosed in content and technological aspects of mobility in the system of supplementary education. The results can be used for the organization and implementation of supplementary educational qualification of teacher’s development programs

Volunteering as a means of preparing future educators to work with children at risk

© 2018 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. The purpose of this study is the theoretical substantiation and experimental verification of the forms and methods of volunteering as a means of preparing future educators to work with children at risk. A case study was conducted at the Institute of Psychology and Education of Kazan Federal University. 100 students (48 members of the Kazan Youth Korczak Society "Sun for Kids," and 52 non-members of the society) took part in it. In our study, the following techniques were used: M. Rokeach's methods of studying value orientations; I. V. Ivanova's methods aimed at identifying indicators of readiness to work with children at risk; a questionnaire designed to study the students' attitude to volunteer activities of a humanistic orientation. The experimental results showed positive dynamics of the level of the students' readiness to work with children at risk, and the impact of volunteer activities within the program called "We are strong together"

E-Teaching materials as the means to improve humanities teaching proficiency in the context of education informatization

© 2016 by iSER, International Society of Educational Research.The aim of the article is to determine the specifics of the creation and methodology of the use of e-teaching materials on humanities in the training system of future teachers. The leading approaches to the study of this problem are student-centered and personally-meaningful approaches to teaching leading to realizing the need for new educational opportunities associated with the use of modern information technologies in the training of future teachers of humanities. The article explains the pedagogical rationale of creating and using e-teaching materials in teaching humanities, based on the integration of subject and methodological knowledge, skills and experience in the training of future teachers; identifies and rationalizes the requirements (integrative framework, gradual development of materials, marked structure, individualization of the teaching process, the strategic character of knowledge assimilation, openness of the system) for the design of e-teaching materials for the humanities disciplines in the training of future teachers; highlights principles of integrative educational process on the basis of e-teaching materials (prioritizing e-teaching materials in the educational process; the integrity and continuity of the didactic cycle carried out with the help of e-teaching materials); grounds organizational and methodological conditions of the effective use of e- teaching materials in future teachers’ training (students’ needs and motivation, cognitive independence, control and diagnostics); focuses on the developed methodology of using e-teaching materials for the humanities disciplines in the training of future teachers (on the basis of the course "Teaching proficiency")

Pragmatic aspect of switching of codes in texts of an advertizing discourse

The article deals with the pragmatic analysis of code switching on the basis of comparative study of advertising discourse texts in English, French and Russian in order to find out current trends in the use of the dominant foreign pragmonyms in advertising texts. In determining a communicative intention of the sender of advertising messages the pragmalinguistic analysis allowed to establish basic and extended switching functions. By applying the methods of generalization and comparison, the component and contextual analysis of the language units as part of the context in different matrix languages, the selection of the advertising text, often subjected to code switching, have been identified. Thus, systematization of structural features of code switching in advertising discourse in different languages presented in the study contributes to developing translation aspects of advertising messaging, as well as issues of multilingualism in sociolinguistics. In addition, the analysis of pragmatic functions of switching and structural models and linguistic appearance of pragmonyms allows to more competently create and edit advertising texts for specific target audiences. In general, the technology of the study of the advertising text for linguistic code switching opens further prospects for comparative analysis in this area based on the material of other genres and discourses to more accurately identify pragmatic functions of present code changes

Bullying in school: Case study of prevention and psycho-pedagogical correction

© Author(s).The purpose of the study was the theoretical justification and experimental verification of content, complex forms and methods to ensure effective prevention and psycho- pedagogical correction of bullying in school. 53 teenage students from Kazan took part in the experiment. A complex of diagnostic techniques for the detection of violence and bullying in the school environment was used: «Questionnaire for diagnosis of violence and bullying at school» by Su-Jeong Kim (V. R. Petrosyants’s modification), The Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory (BDI), Emotional Empathic Tendency Scale (EETS) by A. Mehrabian & N. Epstein. Based on the results of ascertaining experiment, a program containing the forms and methods of prevention and psycho-pedagogical correction of bullying among younger teenagers in school was developed. Statistical analysis of empirical research was carried out by standard techniques of mathematical statistics (t- Student's t test, Pearson’s correlation coefficient)

A Bayesian Belief Network to Infer Incentive Mechanisms to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Livestock Production

Efficient policy intervention to reduce antibiotic use in livestock production requires knowledge about the rationale underlying antibiotic usage. Animal health status and management quality are considered the two most important factors that influence farmersâ¿¿ decision-making concerning antibiotic use. Information on these two factors is therefore crucial in designing incentive mechanisms. In this paper, a Bayesian belief network (BBN) is built to represent the knowledge on how these factors can directly and indirectly determine antibiotic use and the possible impact on economic incentives. Since both factors are not directly observable (i.e. latent), they are inferred from measurable variables (i.e. manifest variables) which are influenced by these factors. Using farm accounting data and registration data on antibiotic use and veterinary services in specialized finisher pig production farms, a confirmatory factor analysis was carried out to construct these factors. The BBN is then parameterized through regression analysis on the constructed factors and manifest variables. Using the BBN, possible incentive mechanisms through prices and management training are discusse

Does Acute Pharmacological Test with Indomethacin Affect Nitrite Ion Blood Level?

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.A single dose of 75 mg indomethacin (acute pharmacological test with indomethacin) reduced the blood serum nitrite ion level in patients who had been taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for at least 6 months, as well as in “resistant” healthy volunteers; blood serum nitrite ion levels following the acute pharmacological test with indomethacin were consistently lower in men than in women

Study of university students’ foreign language speech activity formation

© 2015 by the authors. Today the scope of international activity of Russia has increased. In this regard, there has appeared a steady demand for a good knowledge of one of the European languages (English, French or German). However, in teaching university students there is still a number of problems: poor development of pedagogical conditions for increasing the efficiency of university students’ foreign language speech activity; the problem of the evaluation criteria of speech development level and technological organization of students’ language development; ignorance of its methodological and linguodidactic foundations; uncoordinated study of foreign and native languages; lack of consideration of the motivational features of student’s linguistic personality formation, etc. The article reveals the essence, structure and content of foreign language speech activity. The use of problem-solving communication speech and grammar exercises ensures the successful formation of foreign language speech activity in the learning process that forms a meaningful basis for speech activity. The article determines the principles of its organization and presents a structural and functional model of the development of foreign language speech activity. The results of experimental work suggest the viability of structural and functional model of university students’ speech activity formation. The model shows a correlation of its components, justifies pedagogical conditions for its effective implementation, reveals students’ speech activity development level, provides the criteria, proposes diagnostic tools, as well as the complex of problem-solving and communication methods for the future formation of the main types of students’ speech activity that provide professional character and meaningful basis for foreign language speech activity

University students’ intercultural competence development in foreign language teaching by means of axiological approach

© 2015, Review of European Studies. All right reserved. The development of intercultural competence of students by means of a foreign language today is caused by a number of factors that are essential to the modern society. This modernization of the national education system, which currently includes such priorities as: provision of social mobility in society through the support of the most talented and active young people; support given to new generations to enter the globalized world through the development of young people’s communicative abilities for intercultural understanding, etc. The article reveals the content of value-semantic potential of educational programs that can act as a factor of intercultural competence development of University students, which is the leading characteristic of the cultural development level of the individual and society as a whole. The results of experimental work suggest the viability of axiological approach as a principle of the implementation of educational activities aimed at developing students’ certain personality traits (sense of community with others, along with their own self-determination in a multicultural environment; the desire to know people of other cultures and to establish productive relationships with them, the desire for effective implementation of the acquired knowledge and skills with the aim of understanding the world, etc.)