Authentic Mass Media in the English Language Laboratory

  • A.R. GILMUTDINOVA Kazan Federal University
  • M.E. YASHINA Kazan Federal University
  • L.R. ZAKIROVA Kazan Federal University
  • S.V. SHUSTOVA Perm State National Research University

Abstract

ABSTRACT

 

This article is devoted to the use of authentic media in the process of teaching a foreign language, namely articles of the English press at the lesson of the English language. We attempted to determine the importance and necessity of using media texts and their role in teaching foreign languages. The authors concluded that working with authentic texts helps students develop critical reading skills and universal educational actions, and also represents relevant and interesting material for study, as they introduce them to the natural language environment.

RESUMEN

 

Este artículo está dedicado al uso de medios auténticos en el proceso de enseñanza de un idioma extranjero, a saber, artículos de la prensa inglesa en la lección del idioma inglés. Intentamos determinar la importancia y la necesidad de utilizar textos multimedia y su papel en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras. Los autores llegaron a la conclusión de que trabajar con textos auténticos ayuda a los estudiantes a desarrollar habilidades de lectura crítica y acciones educativas universales, y también representa material relevante e interesante para el estudio, ya que los introduce al entorno del lenguaje natural.

Author Biographies

A.R. GILMUTDINOVA, Kazan Federal University

Aigul Raisovna Gilmutdinova was born on November 29, 1980. She graduated from the Kazan State Pedagogical University in 2001 and started her career at the Department of Contrastive Linguistics at the Faculty of Foreign languages of the Kazan State Pedagogical University. She defended her thesis “Syntactical synonymy in the English and Tatar languages (on the mono subject temporal syntactic constructions of the sentence level) in 2007. She has been working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Theory and Practice of Foreign Language Teaching, the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, KSU. The field of research: contrastive studies of English, Turkish, Russian, Tatar; contrastive study of syntax, Tatar literature of the 20th century; humor, etc.

M.E. YASHINA, Kazan Federal University

Marianna Evgenevna (Yevgenevna) Yashina was born on December 23, 1973, in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan. After graduating from Kazan State Pedagogical University has been teaching English and Methodology at the Department of Theory and Practice of Foreign Language Teaching, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University. Candidate of Pedagogic Sciences, Associate Professor since 2013, she devotes her academic research to the problems of foreign language teaching.

L.R. ZAKIROVA, Kazan Federal University
Luiza Rifgatovna Zakirova was born on October 29, 1979. She graduated from Kazan State Pedagogical University in 2001 and started her career at the Faculty of Foreign languages of the Kazan State Pedagogical University. She defended her thesis in 2008. She has been working as an Associate Professor at the Department of European Languages and Cultures, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University. The field of research: semantics studies, innovative technologies of foreign language teaching, communication studies, media linguistics, comparative linguistics.
S.V. SHUSTOVA, Perm State National Research University
Svetlana Viktorovna Shustova was born on April 1, 1964.  She has been working as a Professor of Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Perm State National Research University, Head of Сenter for Pedagogical Innovations.  She is a member of the Dissertation Council of Perm State National Research University, specialty 02.10.19 ‒ language theory, editor-in-chief of the journal “Eurasian Humanitarian Journal”, a scientific editor of the journal “Research Journal of Russian Language and Literature” (Iran, Tehran), an honorary member of the Iranian Association of the Russian Language and literature. The field of research: the subject of scientific interests lies in the field of systemic linguistics, functional grammar, the theory of semantic valency, the theory of semantic syncretism, incorporation, linguoculturology, linguistic pragmatics, discourse, paremiology, and migration linguistics.

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Published
2020-09-18
How to Cite
GILMUTDINOVA, A., YASHINA, M., ZAKIROVA, L., & SHUSTOVA, S. (2020). Authentic Mass Media in the English Language Laboratory. Utopía Y Praxis Latinoamericana, 25(1), 237-243. Retrieved from https://mail.produccioncientificaluz.org/index.php/utopia/article/view/33694
Issue
Vol. 25 (2020): Extra 7 [Interlocuciones]
Section
Artículos