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Abstract:
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As the number of teaching hours allocated to language learning in technical universities is
being reduced, there is a need for a more efficient use of time spent by students on independent
work. This paper states that the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies),
especially of blogs which have an educational potential in terms of organizing independent work of
students, is underestimated in research and educational literature.
The purpose of the article is to present and describe a pedagogical model for organizing
independent self-learning work of technical university undergraduates, which is based on their
profession-oriented blogging in English. The paper gives a brief description of the model and the
approaches used to implement it. It also indicates the criteria developed specifically for evaluating
students‟ blogs. The model was tested in Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University as a part
of teaching experiment.
The experiment results demonstrate a high level of the students‟ professional language
competence which confirms the effectiveness of the presented model. Moreover, it has been proven
that students can keep blogs independently, without teachers‟ guidance; as they are well familiar
with the general rules of creating web pages in social networks and can easily start a professionoriented
blog in English. |
