Keyword: «techniques»

The development of microlearning is associated with pandemic and post-pandemic changes and trends in higher education system, as well as the characteristics of the modern world: VUCA-reality, shortage of attention span, development of neuroscience, request for corporate training, obtaining specific, targeted skills and knowledge. These characteristics are clearly expressed in the connection of microlearning with mobile learning and computer-mediated learning. The objective of the article is to describe some techniques in microlearning that can be used to increase the efficiency of the educational process for students of language specialties. Some techniques are well-known and widely used. A little emphasis on their implementation or adjustment of assignments can optimize understanding of the material. Elements of microlearning can be part of both classroom and extracurricular activities, and can represent required and optional components of the learning process. The presented techniques are based on the authors’ experience, and are also the result of scientific and methodological analysis of literature on the research topic. The analysis of the research topic publications shows the following dominant features: close connection between microlearning and mobile learning; connection of microlearning with specific topics, splitting large blocks into smaller ones; the research material is available at any time and anywhere; microlearning can be integrated into the process of classical learning, etc. Visualization is an important modifier of the microlearning concept, so there is an active use of presentations, mind maps, diagrams, tables and emoticons. For the purpose of creating ideal conditions for the realization of students' potential abilities, various online platforms are used, in particular, the Telegram platform, chatbots, alternative methods of presenting material, flash cards, scrapbooking, etc. The theoretical significance of the study is related to the synthesis and generalization of the existing scientific groundwork on microlearning, its application in the context of higher education. The described techniques are used with students of language specialties at Chelyabinsk State University. The conclusions provide generalized information on the considered topic.

Currently, everything innovative very quickly becomes traditional, and traditional ways of solving problems are adapted to modern realities. Storytelling is an ancient skill that has evolved over the centuries and it has been updated by technology. In the educational process, stories occupy a special place, which researchers pay great attention to, but not all teachers use storytelling in teaching practice, due to the fact that a good story requires a creative approach. The aim of this article is to study and analyze the literature of domestic and foreign authors who study aspects of storytelling in various fields of activity, including education, as well as to identify storytelling methods and techniques in the professional training of future managers. The study used theoretical and empirical methods such as analysis and comparison. Analysis of the literature allowed us to consider storytelling techniques in different fields, from politics to the restaurant business. And in every field, storytelling is used for the same purposes – to convey information, form listeners’ opinions about a problem, and call for action. All these goals are related to the goals of education, according to which there is a need to identify methods and techniques of storytelling in education. As a result of the study, the main methods of storytelling in education were defined, which include “Hero’s path”, “False start”, “Main event”, “Similar ideas”, “Circles on the water”, “Sparkline”, “Petals”. Each of the listed techniques is applicable in teaching practice and can be adapted to any topic being studied. The pedagogical storytelling techniques include analogy, surprise, environment, anaphora and metaphor, emotionality and vivid elements. Moreover, these techniques can be used both in textual and oral storytelling. Based on the analysis, we can talk about the advantages of using storytelling in teaching practice. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the analysis of the works of domestic and foreign authors studying aspects of storytelling in various fields of activity, including education. The practical significance of the study is represented by the identification of techniques and methods of pedagogical storytelling, which can be adapted and applied in both theoretical and practical professional training of future managers.

Teaching spoken grammar has both practical and theoretical character: the necessity to master the spoken register of a foreign language is fixed in the requirements of FSES HE 3++ in the area of training 45.03.02 Linguistics, as well as the ability to analyze linguistic phenomena descriptively from the point of view of linguistic theories. Besides the academic necessity of speaking grammar, its practical role is also obvious. The aim of the study is to review and describe the ways of teaching English conversational grammar to language students. The proposed ways are the result of literature analysis and author's original pedagogical experience. The analysis of English- and Russian-language publications on the research topic for 1962-2024 is given. The transition to descriptive language teaching and the development of corpus technologies became the basis for the expansion of research on spoken grammar: it becomes clear that syntactic variation is the result of changes in the type of discourse. The study of colloquial grammar in the country of the target language is of particular relevance; in other cases, the active use of authentic materials (advertisements, podcasts, chat bots, etc.) is emphasized. The main elements of colloquial English grammar traditionally include omissions, discourse markers, hesitation markers, insertions, emphases, inversions, inversion markers, etc. Summarizing the analysis, it can be noted that conversational grammar can be considered as a component of pragmatic competence and has high theoretical and practical significance in learning a foreign language. Scientific novelty lies in the analysis and highlighting of scientific priorities in the study of spoken grammar, as well as in the generalization and highlighting of techniques for working on the spoken grammar of a foreign language (English) with students of language specialties. In the conclusions, the authors summarize the main aspects of the topic.

The article discusses the relevance of the formation of computing skills in primary school students. The authors present the results of the research work obtained on the basis of a general education institution in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, using the testing method. The analysis of the research results allows the authors to conclude that the problem of formation of computational skills is relevant in primary school, and a set of tasks has been developed using techniques that contribute to the formation of computational skills.