Research on Teaching Foreign Languages

Blended Learning in Teaching Foreign Languages

Traditional educational system is slowly adapted to fast technological changes in the contemporary information-oriented society. So, constant refreshment and improvement the content and methods of teaching are needed to prepare “new generation engineers” who will be capable to take responsibilities in decision making, capable to apply critical thinking and creative approaches to their work. The...

Basic to applied research: the benefits of audio-visual speech perception research in teaching foreign languages

Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages in Germany: a personal overview of developments in research

There is an unavoidable dilemma in any attempt to put together an overview of the research results for one subject within a discipline. A subject area is either so small that the overview is straightforward but perhaps of interest to only a few, or the subject area is much wider – in which case there is the inevitable danger that the overview will be relatively subjective. This means that some ...

A Qualitative Research on Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety

While research mainly focuses on identification of anxiety, its causes and effects on the learning process and the ways to allay anxiety among foreign language learners, foreign language teaching anxiety has remained a research area that has not attracted much attention. Therefore, in the context of teaching anxiety among preservice teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL), the current s...

Real Time Collaborative Platform for Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages

The paper describes a novel social network-based open educational resource for learning foreign languages in real time from native speakers, based on the predefined teaching materials. This virtual learning platform, named i2istudy, eliminates misunderstanding by providing prepared and predefined scenarios, enabling the participants to understand each other and, as a consequence, to communicate...