PhD  Lyudmila  Toryanik

                                  National University of  Pharmacy( Ukraine)

                SKYPE FOR IMPROVING COMMUNICATION SKILLS

     Global world, we live in, demands the deep knowledge of  English and acquires the central place in all spheres of life. English has become a great necessity for almost everyone to learn in order to communicate globally. This has also been reflected in the educational system in our country, where English has taken the position of the foreign language number one.

        Nowadays, the students of our country, like in other countries in the world, has experienced the great influence of globalization on education system, which gives big progress in raising the knowledge skills and standards of the educational process. The role of education, as a lifelong learning process, under the influence of globalization has become the main subject of many discussions for the recent time.

     Today there have been changes in the labor market, which have been resulted in demands not only for more knowledge of English, as the international language. English learning teaching belongs to the things that have been affected by globalization. That’s why the impact of the global role of English in learning system of high education institutions in our country is tremendous.

     The main role of the Ukrainian university education is to create good conditions for students in their personal development and self-realization bringing them as the new intelligent citizens into“ global citizens“ with high level of language knowledge and communicative skills to influence the global society. It is necessary to  prepare students to self-education and use their knowledge in the real life.

         The analysis of the investigation has shown that Skype is considered to be the most effective and popular method of improving communication skills. Using Skype at the academic lessons one can immediately notice a good connection between academic classroom and students.

The students can learn the easiest language means possession of different types of speech activity, which to a certain point, are the purpose of training, and then use them for the development of more complex language actions.

      The analysis of the articles devoted to the Skype online training video showed that teachers are now using the videoconferencing tool in order to connect foreign-language students to native speakers hold virtual host conversations with scientists and other experts.

     English language podcasts are the best way to learn and communicate quickly, especially they help quickly improve  students’ listening skills and English in proficiency for those who need to use business English. Using transcript help students to comprehend podcasts better if something is confused. So students can listen and read podcasts at the same time.

     As for using  Skype  technologies in the National University of  Pharmacy (Ukraine)during   teaching English we can absolutely underline that English Skype is also better  way to improve students’  lexical vocabulary, grammar knowledge and skills to listen and understand real English. They are based on the introduction of new words, grammar constructions, watching video films, episodes, where students  can hear the given and explained vocabulary and the given grammar constructions in the everyday English speech. After watching video material, the students  have a wonderful opportunity to do self-assessment work, doing lexical and grammar exercises and check themselves using keys after the tasks. The lessons are conducted during the break and last about 30 minutes every day. The teaching staff of the University and students can have a good practice every day.

     Skype English teaching course in our University gives a strong base and practice as for developing and improving communication skills. After watching our online lessons learners needn’t tutorial. They can continue to enrich their knowledge of the English language reading English books, listening to English audio or watching English movies. 

      So, as we see, using Skype lessons for  teaching and improving English is an effective method of language learning. This method of teaching is actual nowadays. It will play a key role in training and developing  individual creative abilities and potential of the students in the nearest future.

     References:

1.     Davis V. A. Using Skype in the classroom ( or just learning how to use it!) 2006, August, from http//coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/10/using-skype-in-classroom-or-just.html.

2.     Summers J.J., Waigandt A., and Whittaker T.A.2005.“ A comparison of student achievement and satisfaction in an online versus a traditional face-to-face statistics class“ Innovative Higher Education. Volume 29,number 3, pp.233-250

3.     http://www.creativeeducation.ru/credib-655-2.html

 

 

 

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