Minin University held meetings of students from the Faculty of Humanities with Dr. Bernd Rüschoff, Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany). Modern paradigms and digital tools in language education were the topics of lectures and workshops.
Digital technologies are now seen as important and useful tools for language education. At the same time, the question remains how these tools can be used to provide a basis for innovative, flexible, and productive learning scenarios in a language audience in the context of global digitalization.
Students were able to comprehend the current paradigms of language teaching and learning which includes socio-cultural approaches, competence orientation, as well as authenticity, result orientation and learning based on educational objectives.
Professor Dr. Bernd Rüschoff introduced an updated the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR-RV) of the Council of Europe, in which the main emphasis is on additional descriptors associated with the development of interactive communication and digital literacy of students.
Nicomachea Olga, the student of 1 course (group, MPI-18-1), shared her impressions from a series of lectures. She noted the usefulness of the information she received: "The professor shared useful links, which combined more than a hundred useful educational online resources. We got acquainted with some of them at the seminar, and these are really the tools that allow, on the one hand, to make the life of the teacher easier, and on the other hand, involve students in the learning process much more intensively. Personally, I especially liked https://piktochart.com/, with which you can quickly make any visual images, posters, posters in the current design, and https://lingofox.dw.com/ to quickly generate all possible language exercises with huge time savings.
The participants gained important experience in the use of various digital materials, applications and technological tools, discussed the prospects of their use in the context of language learning scenarios focused on specific actions and tasks.
