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PROFESSIONAL PEDAGOGICAL COMMUNICATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ ACTIVITY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 12 (165). P. 20-24

The article studies the problems that face higher school lecturers in the course of professional pedagogical communication, it reflects the complexity of the relationship between lecturers and their colleagues, administration, students, and suggests possible options for settling conflicts that arise. Particular attention is paid to the pedagogical communication difficulties specific to foreign language teachers. In addition to the analytical review of research on pedagogical communication, the author describes the results of the experiment conducted among students and graduates of universities in Novosibirsk, during which the participants tried to create a model of the ideal teacher of foreign languages, based on their own experience of communication with the teaching staff of the educational institution.

Keywords: pedagogical communication, professional development, teacher of foreign languages, students, teaching staff, higher educational institution

FEEDBACK AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPMENT OF MOTIVATION FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2017. Issue 6 (183). P. 135-140

The article deals with the questions how to develop students’ motivation to learn foreign languages. Its main purpose is to find the most appropriate and effective ways out. The paper presents the analytical review of research on the problems concerning building and development of educational motivation, describes its types and highlights varieties that are specific to foreign language learning. Particular attention is paid to the close relationship between “feedback” and the level of students’ subject motivation development. The article presents the results of the survey conducted among students and graduates from Novosibirsk universities. The survey participants were asked to point out the most encouraging and disappointing moments they experienced while getting feedback related to results of their work, and describe their emotions. Respondents’ replies were based on their own experience of communication with the teaching staff of the educational institution, and proved the idea, that the feedback given in the foreign language classroom environment greatly affected students’ level of motivation. Moreover, the article defines the functions of “feedback”, characterizes its subtypes, that are commonly used in foreign language teaching and include implicit feedback, explicit and metalinguistic correction. The paper offers examples how to use them effectively while teaching foreign languages. Finally, it determines the level of feedback influence produced on the subject motivation development.

Keywords: feedback, educational motivation, foreign language learning, learner, teacher of foreign languages

“PEER COACHING” TECHNOLOGY (HISTORICAL ASPECT OF DEVELOPMENT) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2018. Issue 5 (194). P. 255-259

The paper presents the historical and analytical review of the original idea of creation “Peer Coaching” technology (historical, political and social circumstances, educational needs of the society, etc.), it offers variants of its effective implementation in the work of high school teachers, shows some difficulties they might face while working with the technology and offers some practical guidelines of the most appropriate and efficient ways how to implement it in the teaching process of higher education. The study proves that “Peer Coaching” is one of the most successful high school teaching staff development technology that has as its purpose to advance the professionalism of teachers by training them to promote frequent, informal, helpful observations by one professional educator to another, to give necessary rationale feedback and coach each other. The article shows that this is the simple, nonthreatening structure designed for peers to help each other to recognize their professional needs, improve instruction, learning situations or other teachers’ professional activity including even scientific research. “Peer Coaching” technology promotes not just the culture of collegiality among higher school teaching staff, it also offers many opportunities for their own professional development, which will do much to improve the quality of university education, restore friendly classroom environment and contribute to their own professional success.

Keywords: educational technology, professional development, university teaching staff, Peer Coaching