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Download full textShvay, Roksolyana; Morska, Nataliya; Kalynyak, Bohdan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
This investigation proposes to apply the methods of training creativity in the natural sciences to teaching a foreign language for specific purposes. This approach is based on the testing of foreign language competencies in different countries, on the task of training higher education specialists, including foreign language training, on the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Personality Traits, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Balanaieva, Oksana V.; Salashchenko, Hanna M.; Shurupova, Kateryna V.; Devos, Anastasiia O.; Romanchuk, Alla I. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The article proves that the need for the development of intercultural communication skills in the learning process is due to external causes of globalization and internal requirements of the modern ethnocultural situation in Ukraine, as well as the needs of pedagogical science, which takes into account global development trends: anthropocentrism,…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Learning Processes, Global Approach, World Views
Obeidat, Mohammed M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The higher education system in Jordan requires freshmen students in each university to set for an English aptitude exam. If the student fails in this exam, s/he should register in the remedial English 99 course which is regarded as a prerequisite for English 101. The purpose of this study is to explore students' expectations of this course and…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
To the Question of the Interference and Positive Transfer When Teaching Russian to Hispanic Students
Valeeva, Dinara Rashidovna; Ershova, Alina Andreevna – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
The real research is devoted to problems of an interlingual interference in the process of studying of Russian by students of the Hispanic countries. The relevance of the article is caused by the fact that at all variety of the scientific works devoted to the contrast description of various languages and the analysis of their interference, it is a…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Transfer of Training, Russian, Second Language Learning
He, Chunxiu – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Given the practical significance of vocabulary testing in language teaching and the theoretical foundations of developing a vocabulary test, four well-established vocabulary tests are introduced for diagnostic purpose together with their corresponding validation studies, with a focus on the designed purpose, the selection of the items, the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Validity, Test Format
Mihara, Kei – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Falling asleep in class is a common phenomenon among students in Japanese universities. There are several possible reasons for this: tiredness from daily routine such as commuting, difficulty concentrating in 90-minute classes, or simply a lack of motivation to study. In the English as a foreign language (EFL) classes, university students are…
Descriptors: Sleep, Student Motivation, Focus Groups, College Students
Al Othman, Fadel H. M.; Shuqair, Khaled M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Many hypotheses have been passed by professors in the language teaching profession concerning the effects of remedial courses in enhancing the skills of students in the English language. Most people share the sentiment that remedial courses are quests in vain when it gets to improving the skills of students learning English as a first or second…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Remedial Instruction
