Developing Future English Teachers’ Overall Communicative Language Ability: Open Educational Resources Usage
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Date
2019
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LUMEN Publishing House
Abstract
The main objective of research is to investigate into the use of open
educational resources in developing future English teachers’ overall
communicative language ability. To achieve progress in attaining the main
objective the researchers collect key data on university lecturers’ personal
experience on using open educational resources in developing future English
teachers’ overall communicative language ability. The research is nonexperimental
in nature. Based on the collected key data the authors also provide
a descriptive review of the open educational resources most commonly noted by
university lecturers and present teaching materials aimed at developing future
English teachers’ overall communicative language ability through boosting their
language skills while using open educational resources in the process of teaching
“The Practical Course of the English Language”. A non-random sampling
technique is used for selecting the research sample. The research sample includes
128 university lecturers who teach “The Practical Course of the English
Language” to students earning BA in the English language considered in our
study as future English teachers. The questionnaire developed by researchers was
used for collecting key data. For processing and interpreting obtained data
researchers used a content analysis, a descriptive analysis and a method of
discursive reflection that could be regarded as qualitative research methods. The
research was conducted at six higher educational establishments in Ukraine
between March 2018 and February 2019. The research findings prompt the
conclusion that open educational resources play a crucial role in developing future
English teachers’ overall communicative language ability since their use in
instruction process gives university lecturers a wide range of opportunities to
improve four language skills of their students.
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Keywords
Open educational resources, university lecturers, overall communicative language ability, general competences, communicative language competences, language skills, future English teachers, higher educational establishments
Citation
Malykhin O. Developing Future English Teachers’ Overall Communicative Language Ability: Open Educational Resources Usage / Oleksandr Malykhin, Nataliia Aristova, Liudmyla Dybkova // Revista Românească pentru Educaţie Multidimensională. – 2019. – Vol. 11, Iss. 4, Suppl. 1. – P. 134-155.