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RAR RUS 8-17 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Burov Vladimir A. wing17@mail.ru Edutainment and gamification in teaching a foreign language: similarities and differences The article considers such modern approaches to teaching a foreign language to students of a technical university as edutainment and gamification. The features of these approaches, their similarities, differences and the appropriateness of their application in specific conditions, for solving specific problems have been studied. Fundamental differences between gamification and edutainment have been revealed, delimiting their range of use. A review of the literature on the use of gamification and edutainment in education is carried out and presented. The need to distinguish between the concepts of «game», "gamification" and "edutainment" is shown. The problems of insufficient knowledge of the use of game elements in teaching a foreign language, their effectiveness, as well as systematization of the groups of game elements used are revealed. On the basis of the studied literature, an analysis of the similarities and differences between gamification and edutainment was carried out, the tools of both methods were analyzed. Recommendations for the use of gamification or edutainment in the specific conditions of student learning are formulated. It is concluded that edutainment, having a wider set of tools, can be used to teach a common foreign language, mainly at the initial level. With an increase in the complexity and volume of the studied material, especially when studying a foreign language for specialists, edutainment loses its effectiveness and it is advisable to use gamification. However, unlike the edutainment, gamification system is quite difficult to develop and apply, its tools require further study and systematization. 10.18720/HUM/ISSN 2227-8591.35.01 378.147 edutainment gamification game game elements methodology foreign language https://tmhe.spbstu.ru/article/2020.22.1/ 1_-V_A_-Burov.pdf

RAR RUS 18-29 0000-0003-2756-0836 57210412428 0000-0003-2756-0836 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Karpovich Irina karpovich_ia@spbstu.ru ACZ-7346-2022 57218920597 0000-0002-3864-7016 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Koroleva (Andrianova) Yuliana V. andrian007@mail.ru Analysis of distance learning impact on technical students’ metacognitive self-regulation (with English language training course as an example) This study examines the factors that influence students’ metacognitive strategies while taking distance learning courses in current epidemiological situation. It has been demonstrated that distance learning is characterised with autonomy. That is why students’ ability to self-regulate their learning becomes vital. This study is aimed at analysing the impact of distance learning on student’s metacognitive selfregulation in the process of studying a foreign language online under pandemic conditions. The research sample consisted of four first-year students' academic groups (86 students) from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. To analyse the impact of distance learning on student’s metacognitive self-regulation we used a scale “Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies: Metacognitive Self-Regulation” of the MSLQ Questionnaire. The Paired sample T-test revealed no statistically significant difference between the values Mean 1 (after a semester of on-campus teaching) and Mean 2 (after a semester of online teaching). However, the results demonstrate that the participants of the study became more aware of the strategies they use, improved some self-study skills and the ability to plan and organize the learning process. It was concluded that distance learning had a positive effect on the way students planned and evaluated their educational activities 10.18720/HUM/ISSN 2227-8591.35.02 378.147 distance learning self-regulation metacognitive strategies higher education teaching foreign languages high academic performance https://tmhe.spbstu.ru/article/2020.22.2/ 2_-I_A_-Karpovich%2C-Yu_V_-Koroleva.pdf

RAR RUS 30-38 AAF-5160-2020 57210417833 0000-0001-5198-815X Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Sheredеkina Oksana sheredekina_oa@spbstu.ru Peer Review in the Foreign Speaking Skills Formation among the students of a multidisciplinary university Current trends in modern higher education are determined by the social order. At this stage, the employer wants to get the graduate that is a professional who is able to solve problems of any complexity, show initiative and self-organization, manage the business or production process and take responsibility for its results, as well as be an effective communicator in both native and foreign languages. Therefore, the problem of the foreign communicative competence formation including those professionally-oriented characteristics that are in demand in the labour market is actual. The focus of the foreign language teacher's attention is on methods, techniques and technologies aimed at the process intensification and the result effectiveness in the foreign language training of non-linguistic students. In recent decades, research has been conducted on the use of this method in the foreign writing and speaking skills formation. The research carried out in the framework of this article allowed us to establish the peer review algorithm for working with foreign speaking skills. Similarities and differences in the algorithms of peer reviewing a letter and an oral speech product are established. The priority characteristics of this method were identified: knowledge of psychological and interpersonal problems related to the specifics of peer review; students’ awareness of the potential and pecularities of the method; collaborative work of students and teachers on methodological material; active role of an expert at the stage of mastering the method; evaluation of both the final work of the authors and the activities of reviewers; positive attitude of students to this method. As a result of the experiment, recommendations were developed for the use of this method in order to increase the effectiveness of the foreign speaking skills formation. 10.18720/HUM/ISSN 2227-8591.35.03 378 peer review foreign writing skills foreign speaking skills author reviewer expert https://tmhe.spbstu.ru/article/2020.22.3/ 3_-O_A_-Sheredekina.pdf

RAR RUS 40-49 57216947965 0000 0002-8895-1315 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Varlamova Vera varlamova_vn@spbstu.ru Linguistic interpretation of a fictional text through archetypes and symbols usage The article is devoted to the linguistic interpretation of a fictional text through archetypes and symbols usage. It gives a review of different approaches to the problem of interaction of folklore and literature, definition of basic terms, such as ‘archetype’, ‘symbol’, ‘mythologem’. Fairy-tale archetypes and symbols are decoded and interpreted in Byatt’s short stories taken from the story collection Sugar and Other Stories. The archetype fairy-tale images of Cinderella, evil stepmother and witch have been analyzed in the stories Racine and Tablecloth and The Dried Witch. The paper focuses on the possibility of applying folklore approach to the interpretation of the above-mentioned archetype images in A.S. Byatt’s stories. Special attention is paid to the role of symbols and stylistic devices and expressive means in decoding the fairy-tale images. The analysis of the extracts from fiction reveals individual peculiarities of folklore borrowings usage by different writers and allows to decode their intentions and to see the depth of the content in fictional texts. The relevance of the research comes out of insufficiency of researches devoted to peculiarities of folklore borrowings in modern English and American literature. To achieve the goal and objectives of the research the following methods were used: the method of reviewing and analysis of theoretical literature on the subject; contextual and intercontextual analyses to identify the relationship between the texts; folklore method, the method of interpretation analysis, stylistic analysis. The practical value of the research: the results of the paper may be used by students in the course of Stylistics of the English Language, Lexicology and during practical classes of Analytical Reading 10.18720/HUM/ISSN 2227-8591.35.04 378.147+ 821.111-1 folklore myth archetype symbol fictional text short story image fairytale stylistic devices linguistic interpretation https://tmhe.spbstu.ru/article/2020.22.4/ 4_-V_N_-Varlamova.pdf

RAR RUS 51-61 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Zablotskaya Irina irnizab@yandex.ru Practical results of applying modern methods of teaching English to Chinese students The article is devoted to the problem of teaching English to Chinese students. When working with this category of students, certain problems arise, both related to the peculiarities of teaching English in China and of a psychological nature. Although the urgency of this problem is beyond doubt, the literature has not paid sufficient attention to its solution. Due to the fact that the classical approach based on a passive form of learning often does not give the desired results, it seems logical to use innovative teaching methods. These include interactive methods and, in particular, case and project methods. The aim of this work is to attempt to analyze the results of the use of interactive methods for teaching Chinese students studying the Russian Federation. At the first stage, the classes included the use of the case study method, maximally adapted for this group of students, which contributed not only to increasing the level of knowledge of the language, but also to the development of critical thinking. The second stage was the main one and represented the work on the project. The article examines specific tasks completed by the students, as well as ways to solve the problems that arose. The most useful from a practical point of view was the idea of choosing a "mentor" from among the strong students in each subgroup, which made it possible to create a psychologically more comfortable environment for the students. It also made it possible to use the Chinese language in case of insoluble difficulties. In general, the experience of using the above interactive methods can be considered successful, since all students, firstly, were involved in the work, secondly, they coped with the task and, thirdly, most of the students showed interest in the approach used and expressed satisfaction with the psychological atmosphere in the classroom. 10.18720/HUM/ISSN 2227-8591.35.05 372.881.111.1 English language Chinese students interactive methods critical thinking case study method project method https://tmhe.spbstu.ru/article/2020.22.5/ 5_-I_N_-Zablotskaya.pdf

RAR RUS 62-73 57216950027 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Nikonova Ekaterina kate_nikonova@mail.ru St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation Yakhyaeva Kamila yakm94@gmail.com Differentiated approach to teaching students professionally oriented reading within the framework of the "Foreign language" discipline The presented paper deals with the reading as a type of speech activity, as well as a differentiated approach, and the possibility of its application in order to intensify the process of professionally oriented training for reading texts in a foreign language to students of non-linguistic universities. In order to pursue this goal, the authors of the paper study the theoretical basis of the differentiated approach, its differences and application possibilities in foreign languages teaching, consider reading as one of the types of speech activity, as well as in the framework of such a pedagogical sphere as professionally oriented training. According to the theoretical analysis of papers dedicated to the same subject-matter, it was found that the differentiated approach provides not only the removal of difficulties for students in studying professional and language material and increasing educational motivation, but also the activation of speech reading skills in general. This thesis is confirmed in the course of pedagogical experiment including two stages of diagnostic and control testing, as well as basic training, distributed at the current level of language skills development, reading foreignlanguage texts for the students of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University majoring in economics and management, in a foreign language course. Based on the data obtained in the course of the pedagogical experiment, the use of a differentiated approach is proved to be an effective didactic tool, in particular, for professionally oriented teaching of reading in a foreign language, due to its variability and ease of implementation within the language course. It is also established that this approach and its elements may be applied as an effective basis for both the development and improvement of speech reading skills, and for the increasing efficiency of students' learning activities. 10.18720/HUM/ISSN 2227-8591.35.06 372.881.1 reading speech activity differentiated approach professionally oriented training foreign language non-linguistic university https://tmhe.spbstu.ru/article/2020.22.6/ 6_-E_N_-Nikonova%2C-K_M_-Yahyaeva.pdf

RAR RUS 75-85 Saint-Petersburg State University Blok Arina BlockAV@yandex.ru Saint-Petersburg State University Popova Elizaveta elizapopovaa@yandex.ru Graduates of a technical university from the perspective of psychological and pedagogical research The features of the magistracy as the final stage of higher professional education are considered. The pedagogical and social problems of graduates of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University are revealed. A literature review on the psychological characteristics of technical students is presented. The factors of psychological wellbeing of technical university students, depending on gender, are also considered. Special methods were applied for determining the dominant state developed by L.V. Kulikov, identifying emotional stability, studying the «list of feelings» by A. Ellis, psychological well-being developed by S.P. Becker, prototypical analysis of social representations proposed by P. Verges. The indicators of activity in relation to the life situation, levels of students’ vitality and their emotional stability, learners’ psychological well-being, analysis of their social perceptions, etc. were considered. It was concluded that the general level of psychological well-being parameters differs more between individuals than between groups of men and female samples. However, there are gender characteristics of the psychological well-being formation associated with the influence of the society in which the student's personality develops. 10.18720/HUM/ISSN 2227-8591.35.07 378.4 technical university graduates gender psychological well-being methods indicators https://tmhe.spbstu.ru/article/2020.22.7/ 7_-A_V_-Blok%2C-E_L_-Popova.pdf

RAR RUS 86-90 St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences Kazarian Amalia amalia.est98@gmail.com Semantic field features of «mountain» in the English vocabulary The article is devoted to the analysis of the culturally specific semantic field «mountain» in the English vocabulary. According to the list of P600 mountains, there are 120 mountains in Great Britain, 82 of which are located in Scotland. According to another classification, the Mаrylins, including in addition the mountains and hills, that number rises to 1,552. Being of significance in the landscape of Great Britain with an extensive mountain system and a system of highlands, it is logical to assume that this phenomenon has received a rich embodiment in the English language vocabulary. Another object of interest is the theory of the semantic field, the study of which, despite its long history, attracts the attention of scientists. Currently, linguistics pays great attention to the study of the system organization of the vocabulary of a language, which does not imply a separate analysis of its lexical units, but their analysis in all possible connections and relationships. The relevance of this work lies in the description of the unexplored linguistic phenomena, the semantic field «mountain» at an early unexamined level, the choice of which is dictated by modern realities – the growing interest in nature; secondly, this study is performed in the important for modern linguistic scientific direction – the study of the systematic vocabulary. The analysis is carried out with the help of the method of the componential analysis and of a directed selection of material from lexicographic sources. Summing up one can conclude that semantic field confirms culturally specific nature of the semantics of «mountain». 10.18720/HUM/ISSN 2227-8591.35.08 81’374 semantic field nature English vocabulary https://tmhe.spbstu.ru/article/2020.22.8/ 8_-A_M_-Kazaryan.pdf

RAR RUS 91-103 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Kurysheva Daria D. kurysheva.dd@edu.spbstu.ru Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Metshanova Diana D. metshanova.dd@edu.spbstu.ru Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Shergina Victoria D. vika.shergina.01@mail.ru Analysis of the preparedness of students and teachers for collaborative learning in the context of distance learning The article discusses the current method of collaborative learning and the possibility of its practical application in the classroom in a remote format. The basic principles and characteristics of this knowledge acquisition system, its main advantages and disadvantages are revealed, and the results of the ascertaining experiment are analyzed. Both the students and the teachers who participated in the project held a positive view of distance learning. Preparation of projects, reports, presentations, as well as group discussions were indicated as the most common forms of work involving joint educational and cognitive activities of students. The survey participants expressed such wishes and recommendations for improving the quality of distance learning as the need to create more resources designed for team work. Besides, students and teachers need additional training in order to use remote platforms and spaces for remote team work more effectively. The authors came to the conclusion that in order to bring the quality of distance learning closer to the quality of face-to-face education, it is necessary to provide students with opportunities to share their materials and help each other during classes and in preparation for them, since such practice increases cognitive interest and educational motivation and, as a result, improves students’ performance in exams. 10.18720/HUM/ISSN 2227-8591.35.09 371.6 education information technology distance learning collaborative learning co-education https://tmhe.spbstu.ru/article/2020.22.9/ 9_-D_D_-Kurisheva%2C-D_D_-Meshchanova%2C-V_D_-Shergina.pdf

MIS RUS 104-104 Editorial staff of the "Teaching Methodology in Higher Education" scientific journal voprosy_metodiki@spbstu.ru In the next Issue Announcement of articles planned for publication in the next issue. announcement https://tmhe.spbstu.ru/article/2020.22.10/ 35-V-SLEDUYuShchEM-VIPUSKE.pdf