2018 IV International Conference on Information Technologies in Engineering Education (Inforino), 2018
The article is devoted to the role of the online component of the English for Specific Purposes (... more The article is devoted to the role of the online component of the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course, which was designed as a joint interdisciplinary project between the teachers of ESP and the lecturer of Database Systems (DB) course, which has been delivered in English to the 3rd year students of High School of Cyberphysical Systems and Control of SPbPU since 2016. The ESP course enabled the developers to achieve a higher degree of professional focus than conventional ESP textbooks provide. This paper focuses on the design of the course syllabus, its organization in LMS MOODLE, and analysis of the two year approbation of both experimental ESP course and Database Systems course given in English. Although the results of the first year ESP course approbation were successful, the survey conducted at the end of the first year teaching DB course in English highlighted some problem zones. This resulted in modifying the way of teaching the ESP course during the second year approba...
Компьютерная лингвистика и вычислительные онтологии, 2020
В статье исследуются возможности применения лингвистических корпусов для обучения английскому для... more В статье исследуются возможности применения лингвистических корпусов для обучения английскому для специальных целей (АСЦ) студентов – биотехнологов . Доказывается целесообразность поиска релевантного корпуса, находящегося в свободном доступе, по сравнению с созданием собственного специального корпуса для данной предметной области. Обосновывается целесообразность исследования/проверки релевантности корпусов COCA и NOW как дополнительного ресурса в курсе АСЦ для направления подготовки «Биотехнология». В качестве критериев релевантности корпуса были выбраны следующие: 1) наличие в корпусе биотехнологических терминов, 2) их частотность и 3) доступность полных текстов, фрагменты которых представлены в конкордансах с терминами по биотехнологии. В ходе эксперимента подготовленные с помощью корпуса NOW задания были опробованы в группе бакалавров-биотехнологов 3го курса, изучающих АСЦ. Рассматриваются примеры заданий, используемые в эксперименте. Это задания с раздаточными материалами, подго...
Компьютерная лингвистика и вычислительные онтологии, 2019
Статья посвящена перспективам использования подходов корпусной лингвистики в формировании лексико... more Статья посвящена перспективам использования подходов корпусной лингвистики в формировании лексико-фразеологических навыков обучающихся. Т.к. в рамках учебного процесса разработка дидактических материалов с использованием корпусных данных осуществляется с учетом рекомендованных для изучения дисциплин учебных пособий, была предпринята попытка верифицировать фразеологические единицы, включенные в пособия по практике речевого общения и перевода, в корпусе современного американского английского языка (COCA). Приведено обоснование выбора корпуса СОСА для проведения подобного исследования. При верификации 535 отобранных фразеологизмов в корпусе были обнаружены 262 единицы в своем нормативном виде и 71 в трансформированном. В работе представлен список самых частотных фразеологизмов, список фразеологизмов, не обнаруженных в корпусе, но рекомендуемых к изучению в пособии по практике перевода, а также и наиболее типичные примеры трансформаций фразеологических единиц, предлагаемых к изучению в ...
Development of reading skills in the English for specific purposes course is an important problem... more Development of reading skills in the English for specific purposes course is an important problem, which is often underestimated. To comprehend specialist texts in a foreign language students have to use different cognitive practices and have solid background and linguistic and vocabulary knowledge. The paper describes the results of the 10-week experiment on involvement of second year IT students in making testformat questions as a part of their home assignment. At the beginning of the term, the academic group with a lower average placement test score (though statistically insignificant) was selected as the experimental one for the pedagogical experiment, with the second group becoming the control. Both groups received instruction based on the same teaching materials for the following 10 weeks. The only difference was that students in the experimental group prepared test-format questions as a part of their home assignment and worked in small teams testing each other at the end of each class. These activities resulted in improving students' reading skills and better memorization of target vocabulary items during the experiment. The final test revealed statistically significant difference in the knowledge of vocabulary and grammar structures between the experimental and control groups. The students' reaction to making test-format questions was overwhelmingly positive. The paper discusses the findings and outlines further research. The proposed technology of improving reading comprehension skills in English may be extrapolated on teaching other foreign languages in our multilingual world.
Teaching and learning to read domain specific texts and research articles within the course of ac... more Teaching and learning to read domain specific texts and research articles within the course of academic English for specific/academic purposes (ESAP) is often underestimated and outsourced to students' independent study with minimal instructors' intervention. Student often demonstrate inability to gain knowl-AQ1 edge about basic conventions established in the international academic communities such as research article (RA) structure, style, rules of citation and referencing etc. while reading RAs. The study undertaken by researchers of Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU) and Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) showed that a specially designed extensive academic reading module (EARM) can help solve this problem. In the first part, the paper describes the underlying rationale for the development of the EARM, its syllabus, and its experimental approbation in the spring term of 2021-22 academic year with two academic groups of postgraduate language pedagogy students taking their master program at SPbSU and SPbPU. The second part of the paper focuses on the analysis of the data collected, namely two questionnaires completed by the experiment participants, their reports about extensive reading of RAs selected, and analysis of some structural and linguistic features of 36 RAs selected by the students which was conducted by the researchers. The role of technology in teaching the EARM is AQ2 stressed. The positive attitude of students to the EARM and improvement of some their micro academic skills, e.g. pre-reading self-questioning, during the half-term experiment allow the authors to recommend including teaching academic reading module in ESAP course for postgraduate students on a regular basis. Further research steps are outlined.
Technology-Enhanced Instruction into Extensive L2 Academic Reading for Specific Purposes Within the ESP/ESAP Course for Postgraduate Language Pedagogy Students, 2022
Teaching and learning to read domain specific texts and research articles within the course of ac... more Teaching and learning to read domain specific texts and research articles within the course of academic English for specific/academic purposes (ESAP) is often underestimated and outsourced to students' independent study with minimal instructors' intervention. Student often demonstrate inability to gain knowl-AQ1 edge about basic conventions established in the international academic communities such as research article (RA) structure, style, rules of citation and referencing etc. while reading RAs. The study undertaken by researchers of Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU) and Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) showed that a specially designed extensive academic reading module (EARM) can help solve this problem. In the first part, the paper describes the underlying rationale for the development of the EARM, its syllabus, and its experimental approbation in the spring term of 2021-22 academic year with two academic groups of postgraduate language pedagogy students taking their master program at SPbSU and SPbPU. The second part of the paper focuses on the analysis of the data collected, namely two questionnaires completed by the experiment participants, their reports about extensive reading of RAs selected, and analysis of some structural and linguistic features of 36 RAs selected by the students which was conducted by the researchers. The role of technology in teaching the EARM is AQ2 stressed. The positive attitude of students to the EARM and improvement of some their micro academic skills, e.g. pre-reading self-questioning, during the half-term experiment allow the authors to recommend including teaching academic reading module in ESAP course for postgraduate students on a regular basis. Further research steps are outlined.
В последние годы наблюдается заметное повышение роли корпусной лингвистики (КЛ) в мире. Число дос... more В последние годы наблюдается заметное повышение роли корпусной лингвистики (КЛ) в мире. Число доступных корпусов исчисляется тысячами, позволяя решать самые разные исследовательские задачи в области лингвистики, культурологии, социологии, истории, когнитивной лингвистики и других гуманитарных наук. Несмотря на то, что КЛ оказывает существенное влияние на методику обучения иностранным языкам, анализ литературы показывает, что потенциал КЛ не в полной мере находит отражение в программах подготовки преподавателей иностранных языков и переводчиков. В статье дается обзор наиболее значимых современных проектов в области КЛ, анализируется роль и место КЛ в подготовке будущих специалистов в области компьютерной лингводидактики – магистерской программы в рамках направления «Лингвистика», открытой в 2016г в СПбПУ. Анализ рабочих программ дисциплин (РПД), изучаемых в рамках магистерской программы «Компьютерная лингводидактика», показал, что большинство из них содержит либо специальные модули, ...
Proceedings of the XI International Scientific Conference Communicative Strategies of the Information Society, 2019
The article is aimed at highlighting the fact of the presence of common features inherent in vari... more The article is aimed at highlighting the fact of the presence of common features inherent in various types of creative conscious activity of people. It is exemplified by the notion of parallelism in their intellectual work, in the way of creating new educational products. In live communication, the reflection of the process parallelism is a powerful universal mechanism to facilitate the perception of information of an unfamiliar nature based on experience in the field of one's own professional interests. Using the ability to parallelize various information flows with an emphasis on general patterns is a means of streamlining a relatively large amount of information in order to ensure its understanding. The article discusses examples of parallelism inherent in human literary activity. Syntactic parallelism or concurrency, a stylistic device for figurative speech, refers to imaginative means in literature. Syntactic parallelism as manifested in similar construction of related phrases, poetic lines, etc., is illustrated by the works of English and American classical literature, e.g. those of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, John Fowles, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Poe, Robert Frost. In a natural connection with poetry is music, which is characterized by obvious manifestations of parallelism in various forms. Some of them allow algebraic formalization with the subsequent possibility of using the achievements of modern computer science including neural networks. In modern information society, an idea is considered useful if it can be adapted for computer implementation. This with the help of neural networks is presented on the example of recognition of musical fragments taking into account the parallelism of tonalities. The importance of a methodological approach to education, the components of which are logical and emotional principles, is emphasized.
В статье обсуждаются вопросы непрерывности формирования иноязычных письменных речевых навыков при... more В статье обсуждаются вопросы непрерывности формирования иноязычных письменных речевых навыков при обучении студентов инженерных специальностей. Актуальность исследуемой проблемы связана с возросшим требованием к публикационной деятельности вузов, стремящихся повысить свои позиции в мировых рейтингах. Однако, академическое письмо, стоящее в центре западного университетского образования, находится в стадии становления в российских университетах. Показано, что детальная кодификация элементов содержания и требований к уровню подготовки выпускников школ по владению письменными речевыми навыками на иностранном языке уступает место достаточно общим формулировкам соответствующих компетенций в ФГОС 3++ разных инженерных направлений подготовки в бакалавриате и магистратуре, предоставляя вузам возможность самим определять приоритеты. Описываются и анализируются результаты экспериментального обучения бакалавров 2 курса в односеместровом курсе академического письма и обучение магистрантов 1 курса письменному аспекту дисциплины «Иностранный язык в профессиональной деятельности», включавшего написание элементов научной статьи на английском языке. Анализ итоговых письменных работ и результатов анкетирования позволяет заключить, что не удается осуществить в полном объеме преемственность в обучении письму на английском языке на этапах средняя школа – бакалавриат – магистратура. Приводится анализ причин этой ситуации и намечаются возможные пути ее решения.
Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives, 2020
In modern world practice, Corpus-based Approach is gaining serious positions. Mastering its metho... more In modern world practice, Corpus-based Approach is gaining serious positions. Mastering its methods contributes to the development of linguistic/foreign-language competence and IC (Information-Communication) competency as well. Nevertheless, modern ICs are not sufficiently implemented in the professional activities of a linguist-teacher. Therefore, we consider it all the more necessary and relevant to specify and study the special role and place of corpus linguistics in the training of future specialists in the field of computer language teaching. The training of our master students in corpus technologies is based on a developed modular plan consisting of levels for successful acquisition of corpus linguistics skills, which are eventually supposed to be accumulated in compiling a set of corpus-based exercises. We see this as a special aim since these exercises may be integrated as a separate module in the course (developed by a student), which students defend as a research project at the end of their studies. Considering that among our master students there are those who major not only in humanities but also in technical areas, RNC serves as a cross-functional linguistic toolkit for our future specialists. This and other resources open up the prospects for developing and compiling textbooks on completely new conditions: modern and minimally adapted textbooks, which can be integrated onto various educational platforms.
2018 IV International Conference on Information Technologies in Engineering Education (Inforino), 2018
The article is devoted to the role of the online component of the English for Specific Purposes (... more The article is devoted to the role of the online component of the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course, which was designed as a joint interdisciplinary project between the teachers of ESP and the lecturer of Database Systems (DB) course, which has been delivered in English to the 3rd year students of High School of Cyberphysical Systems and Control of SPbPU since 2016. The ESP course enabled the developers to achieve a higher degree of professional focus than conventional ESP textbooks provide. This paper focuses on the design of the course syllabus, its organization in LMS MOODLE, and analysis of the two year approbation of both experimental ESP course and Database Systems course given in English. Although the results of the first year ESP course approbation were successful, the survey conducted at the end of the first year teaching DB course in English highlighted some problem zones. This resulted in modifying the way of teaching the ESP course during the second year approba...
Компьютерная лингвистика и вычислительные онтологии, 2020
В статье исследуются возможности применения лингвистических корпусов для обучения английскому для... more В статье исследуются возможности применения лингвистических корпусов для обучения английскому для специальных целей (АСЦ) студентов – биотехнологов . Доказывается целесообразность поиска релевантного корпуса, находящегося в свободном доступе, по сравнению с созданием собственного специального корпуса для данной предметной области. Обосновывается целесообразность исследования/проверки релевантности корпусов COCA и NOW как дополнительного ресурса в курсе АСЦ для направления подготовки «Биотехнология». В качестве критериев релевантности корпуса были выбраны следующие: 1) наличие в корпусе биотехнологических терминов, 2) их частотность и 3) доступность полных текстов, фрагменты которых представлены в конкордансах с терминами по биотехнологии. В ходе эксперимента подготовленные с помощью корпуса NOW задания были опробованы в группе бакалавров-биотехнологов 3го курса, изучающих АСЦ. Рассматриваются примеры заданий, используемые в эксперименте. Это задания с раздаточными материалами, подго...
Компьютерная лингвистика и вычислительные онтологии, 2019
Статья посвящена перспективам использования подходов корпусной лингвистики в формировании лексико... more Статья посвящена перспективам использования подходов корпусной лингвистики в формировании лексико-фразеологических навыков обучающихся. Т.к. в рамках учебного процесса разработка дидактических материалов с использованием корпусных данных осуществляется с учетом рекомендованных для изучения дисциплин учебных пособий, была предпринята попытка верифицировать фразеологические единицы, включенные в пособия по практике речевого общения и перевода, в корпусе современного американского английского языка (COCA). Приведено обоснование выбора корпуса СОСА для проведения подобного исследования. При верификации 535 отобранных фразеологизмов в корпусе были обнаружены 262 единицы в своем нормативном виде и 71 в трансформированном. В работе представлен список самых частотных фразеологизмов, список фразеологизмов, не обнаруженных в корпусе, но рекомендуемых к изучению в пособии по практике перевода, а также и наиболее типичные примеры трансформаций фразеологических единиц, предлагаемых к изучению в ...
Development of reading skills in the English for specific purposes course is an important problem... more Development of reading skills in the English for specific purposes course is an important problem, which is often underestimated. To comprehend specialist texts in a foreign language students have to use different cognitive practices and have solid background and linguistic and vocabulary knowledge. The paper describes the results of the 10-week experiment on involvement of second year IT students in making testformat questions as a part of their home assignment. At the beginning of the term, the academic group with a lower average placement test score (though statistically insignificant) was selected as the experimental one for the pedagogical experiment, with the second group becoming the control. Both groups received instruction based on the same teaching materials for the following 10 weeks. The only difference was that students in the experimental group prepared test-format questions as a part of their home assignment and worked in small teams testing each other at the end of each class. These activities resulted in improving students' reading skills and better memorization of target vocabulary items during the experiment. The final test revealed statistically significant difference in the knowledge of vocabulary and grammar structures between the experimental and control groups. The students' reaction to making test-format questions was overwhelmingly positive. The paper discusses the findings and outlines further research. The proposed technology of improving reading comprehension skills in English may be extrapolated on teaching other foreign languages in our multilingual world.
Teaching and learning to read domain specific texts and research articles within the course of ac... more Teaching and learning to read domain specific texts and research articles within the course of academic English for specific/academic purposes (ESAP) is often underestimated and outsourced to students' independent study with minimal instructors' intervention. Student often demonstrate inability to gain knowl-AQ1 edge about basic conventions established in the international academic communities such as research article (RA) structure, style, rules of citation and referencing etc. while reading RAs. The study undertaken by researchers of Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU) and Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) showed that a specially designed extensive academic reading module (EARM) can help solve this problem. In the first part, the paper describes the underlying rationale for the development of the EARM, its syllabus, and its experimental approbation in the spring term of 2021-22 academic year with two academic groups of postgraduate language pedagogy students taking their master program at SPbSU and SPbPU. The second part of the paper focuses on the analysis of the data collected, namely two questionnaires completed by the experiment participants, their reports about extensive reading of RAs selected, and analysis of some structural and linguistic features of 36 RAs selected by the students which was conducted by the researchers. The role of technology in teaching the EARM is AQ2 stressed. The positive attitude of students to the EARM and improvement of some their micro academic skills, e.g. pre-reading self-questioning, during the half-term experiment allow the authors to recommend including teaching academic reading module in ESAP course for postgraduate students on a regular basis. Further research steps are outlined.
Technology-Enhanced Instruction into Extensive L2 Academic Reading for Specific Purposes Within the ESP/ESAP Course for Postgraduate Language Pedagogy Students, 2022
Teaching and learning to read domain specific texts and research articles within the course of ac... more Teaching and learning to read domain specific texts and research articles within the course of academic English for specific/academic purposes (ESAP) is often underestimated and outsourced to students' independent study with minimal instructors' intervention. Student often demonstrate inability to gain knowl-AQ1 edge about basic conventions established in the international academic communities such as research article (RA) structure, style, rules of citation and referencing etc. while reading RAs. The study undertaken by researchers of Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU) and Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) showed that a specially designed extensive academic reading module (EARM) can help solve this problem. In the first part, the paper describes the underlying rationale for the development of the EARM, its syllabus, and its experimental approbation in the spring term of 2021-22 academic year with two academic groups of postgraduate language pedagogy students taking their master program at SPbSU and SPbPU. The second part of the paper focuses on the analysis of the data collected, namely two questionnaires completed by the experiment participants, their reports about extensive reading of RAs selected, and analysis of some structural and linguistic features of 36 RAs selected by the students which was conducted by the researchers. The role of technology in teaching the EARM is AQ2 stressed. The positive attitude of students to the EARM and improvement of some their micro academic skills, e.g. pre-reading self-questioning, during the half-term experiment allow the authors to recommend including teaching academic reading module in ESAP course for postgraduate students on a regular basis. Further research steps are outlined.
В последние годы наблюдается заметное повышение роли корпусной лингвистики (КЛ) в мире. Число дос... more В последние годы наблюдается заметное повышение роли корпусной лингвистики (КЛ) в мире. Число доступных корпусов исчисляется тысячами, позволяя решать самые разные исследовательские задачи в области лингвистики, культурологии, социологии, истории, когнитивной лингвистики и других гуманитарных наук. Несмотря на то, что КЛ оказывает существенное влияние на методику обучения иностранным языкам, анализ литературы показывает, что потенциал КЛ не в полной мере находит отражение в программах подготовки преподавателей иностранных языков и переводчиков. В статье дается обзор наиболее значимых современных проектов в области КЛ, анализируется роль и место КЛ в подготовке будущих специалистов в области компьютерной лингводидактики – магистерской программы в рамках направления «Лингвистика», открытой в 2016г в СПбПУ. Анализ рабочих программ дисциплин (РПД), изучаемых в рамках магистерской программы «Компьютерная лингводидактика», показал, что большинство из них содержит либо специальные модули, ...
Proceedings of the XI International Scientific Conference Communicative Strategies of the Information Society, 2019
The article is aimed at highlighting the fact of the presence of common features inherent in vari... more The article is aimed at highlighting the fact of the presence of common features inherent in various types of creative conscious activity of people. It is exemplified by the notion of parallelism in their intellectual work, in the way of creating new educational products. In live communication, the reflection of the process parallelism is a powerful universal mechanism to facilitate the perception of information of an unfamiliar nature based on experience in the field of one's own professional interests. Using the ability to parallelize various information flows with an emphasis on general patterns is a means of streamlining a relatively large amount of information in order to ensure its understanding. The article discusses examples of parallelism inherent in human literary activity. Syntactic parallelism or concurrency, a stylistic device for figurative speech, refers to imaginative means in literature. Syntactic parallelism as manifested in similar construction of related phrases, poetic lines, etc., is illustrated by the works of English and American classical literature, e.g. those of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, John Fowles, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Poe, Robert Frost. In a natural connection with poetry is music, which is characterized by obvious manifestations of parallelism in various forms. Some of them allow algebraic formalization with the subsequent possibility of using the achievements of modern computer science including neural networks. In modern information society, an idea is considered useful if it can be adapted for computer implementation. This with the help of neural networks is presented on the example of recognition of musical fragments taking into account the parallelism of tonalities. The importance of a methodological approach to education, the components of which are logical and emotional principles, is emphasized.
В статье обсуждаются вопросы непрерывности формирования иноязычных письменных речевых навыков при... more В статье обсуждаются вопросы непрерывности формирования иноязычных письменных речевых навыков при обучении студентов инженерных специальностей. Актуальность исследуемой проблемы связана с возросшим требованием к публикационной деятельности вузов, стремящихся повысить свои позиции в мировых рейтингах. Однако, академическое письмо, стоящее в центре западного университетского образования, находится в стадии становления в российских университетах. Показано, что детальная кодификация элементов содержания и требований к уровню подготовки выпускников школ по владению письменными речевыми навыками на иностранном языке уступает место достаточно общим формулировкам соответствующих компетенций в ФГОС 3++ разных инженерных направлений подготовки в бакалавриате и магистратуре, предоставляя вузам возможность самим определять приоритеты. Описываются и анализируются результаты экспериментального обучения бакалавров 2 курса в односеместровом курсе академического письма и обучение магистрантов 1 курса письменному аспекту дисциплины «Иностранный язык в профессиональной деятельности», включавшего написание элементов научной статьи на английском языке. Анализ итоговых письменных работ и результатов анкетирования позволяет заключить, что не удается осуществить в полном объеме преемственность в обучении письму на английском языке на этапах средняя школа – бакалавриат – магистратура. Приводится анализ причин этой ситуации и намечаются возможные пути ее решения.
Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives, 2020
In modern world practice, Corpus-based Approach is gaining serious positions. Mastering its metho... more In modern world practice, Corpus-based Approach is gaining serious positions. Mastering its methods contributes to the development of linguistic/foreign-language competence and IC (Information-Communication) competency as well. Nevertheless, modern ICs are not sufficiently implemented in the professional activities of a linguist-teacher. Therefore, we consider it all the more necessary and relevant to specify and study the special role and place of corpus linguistics in the training of future specialists in the field of computer language teaching. The training of our master students in corpus technologies is based on a developed modular plan consisting of levels for successful acquisition of corpus linguistics skills, which are eventually supposed to be accumulated in compiling a set of corpus-based exercises. We see this as a special aim since these exercises may be integrated as a separate module in the course (developed by a student), which students defend as a research project at the end of their studies. Considering that among our master students there are those who major not only in humanities but also in technical areas, RNC serves as a cross-functional linguistic toolkit for our future specialists. This and other resources open up the prospects for developing and compiling textbooks on completely new conditions: modern and minimally adapted textbooks, which can be integrated onto various educational platforms.
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