Technical university students’ feedback: a critical factor in teaching English during wartime
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Дата
2023
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Науковий керівник
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Видавнича група «Наукові перспективи»
Анотація
The quality of education during periods of recovery or instability depends on feedback, which plays an important role in building rapport between teachers and students. The issue of providing effective feedback was investigated by many researchers. However, there are few studies devoted to technical university students’ feedback on English language course during wartime. The article explored the meaning of the term “feedback”, outlined its features and discussed the results of technical university students’ survey on their English language course. This study was conducted at National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, a mixed method research design was used.
The results of this research confirm the need of providing constructive feedback as it makes students reflect on their performance, informs teachers of students’ attitude to their experience of doing the English language course and provides an opportunity to improve it next academic year. According to the findings of the study, technical university bachelor students were well-informed at the beginning of the English language course, they knew what they had to do in order to complete it. English course assignments and deadlines were reasonable, students could communicate with their teachers when necessary, and the level of engagement through videos, discussion boards, etc. was very high. Maybe, that is why majority of students felt less stressed at the English lessons and they were satisfied with their academic results at the end of the course. All the respondents completed lessons asynchronously if they missed ones. However, some students were not sure that they had opportunities to speak English in real life, and even more, about a third of the respondents, had doubts about their ability to solve technical problems. Games, teamwork, discussions and videos were favourite activities of technical university students. At the same time technical university students would like to have offline English lessons next academic year. The results of this study could be of some interest to future researchers, practitioners and students.
Опис
The quality of education during periods of recovery or instability depends on feedback, which plays an important role in building rapport between teachers and students. The issue of providing effective feedback was investigated by many researchers. However, there are few studies devoted to technical university students’ feedback on English language course during wartime. The article explored the meaning of the term “feedback”, outlined its features and discussed the results of technical university students’ survey on their English language course. This study was conducted at National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, a mixed method research design was used.
Ключові слова
technical university students, feedback, wartime, teaching English
Бібліографічний опис
Chugai, O. Technical university students’ feedback: a critical factor in teaching English during wartime / Chugai, O. // Перспективи та інновації науки. - 2023. - №12(30). - С. 16-28.