The Use of Online Quizlet.com Resource Tools to Support Native English Speaking Students of Engineering and Medical Departments in Accelerated RFL Teaching and Learning

Kh E Ismailova (1) , K G Gleason (2) , P A Provotorova (1) , P G Matukhin (1)

1 People's Friendship University of Russia [Moscow]
2 American Center, Moscow

The paper presents a description of the methodology and some results of the application of tools of the language learning support portal Quizlet.com to improve the effectiveness of the accelerated development of the basic communicative skills in Russian as a foreign language (RFL) for the group of the English-speaking students who arrived to study in Russia engineering, medicine and other areas. The application of the development is the basics of Russian teaching and learning in the classroom as well as in the mode of self-education and out-of-classroom events. Special attention is paid to the use of cloud-based tools to organize and conduct extracurricular activities. Particularly in the promising subject connected with the use of 3D printers for the solution of engineering problems of prosthetics of the lost bodies of animals and birds on the example of the Toucan key restoration. Analysis of the results of the use of flash cards, tests, and group games showed the promise of using the sets of Quizlet.com tools for accelerated assimilation of the native English speaking students in the area of General and special RFL vocabulary, as well as students showed that in a short time they can get and develop their basic skills of listening, reading and writing in Russian communication when Quizlet tools being used in different modes.

Mots clés: Russian as a foreign language; English teaching; learning; tests; BYOD; Quizletcom; internet; 3D printer

Domaines: Education; Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain

Kh E Ismailova, K G Gleason, P A Provotorova, P G Matukhin. The Use of Online Quizlet.com Resource Tools to Support Native English Speaking Students of Engineering and Medical Departments in Accelerated RFL Teaching and Learning. Mechanics, Materials Science & Engineering Journal, 2017, 7, ⟨10.2412/mmse.05.805.901⟩. ⟨hal-01508618⟩