Challenges of ESP classes in wartime conditions
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Дата
2022
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КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського
Анотація
The realities that Ukraine faces today, namely, the full-scale war with the imposition of martial law on the
territoy of the whole country, led to a number of discussions arising around the effective but safe
conducting of the education process at universities and other educational establishments and concerned
the organization and proper management of the students’ learning process. Despite the previous
experience of distance and blended learning modes implemented during the Covid 19 period, it should be
noted that some aspects of the organization of the educational process require reconsidering, taking into
account the new experience of studying in wartime and the need to regard the emotional tension of
students, especially those caught up in the temporarily occupied territories. A survey was conducted
among the students of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic
Institute” with the aim to reveal and analyze the level of technical students’ adaptation to learning a
foreign language in extreme conditions and the relevance of tools and methods the teachers have been
applying on their English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classes. A mixed-method research design was
utilized in the study to collect, analyze, compare and contrast quantitative statistical results with
qualitative findings obtained from the survey. Among the outcomes, it’s worth mentioning the non-fading
motivation of students to learn foreign language, increased cross-cultural communication, and mostly
high-level accommodation to distance learning mode. It was interesting to find out that students expressed
unwillingness to discuss war and relevant news in the ESP lessons and are having issues with managing
their academic study time. All the results obtained provide the ground for further reconsidering of the
curricula to better meet the students’educational needs.
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education in wartime, ESL classes, distance learning, open online courses, synchronous learning, asynchronous learning, teacher’s empathy, cross-cultural communication, освіта у воєнний час, заняття з англійської мови для спеціальних цілей, дистанційне навчання, відкриті онлайн-курси, синхронне навчання, асинхронне навчання, емпатія викладача, міжкультурне спілкування
Бібліографічний опис
Ameridze, O. Challenges of ESP classes in wartime conditions / Olga Ameridze, Larysa Svyrydova, Natalia Yamshynska // Advanced Linguistics. – 2022. – № 9. – Pр. 51-60.