In recent years, considerable concern has arisen over issues of intercultural competence (IC) in relation to English education in the fields of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or English as a Second Language (ESL), due largely to globalisation. However, relatively little qualitative research has been conducted on EFL teachers’ beliefs and their effects on classroom practices. Through in-dep...

AbstrAct Learning Objects (LOs) are increasingly considered potentially helpful to improve teachers' work and to spread innovation in the school system. Their technological roots, however, often make them scarcely appealing to the teachers. A key issue to tackle in order to boost their diffusion is to make them closer to actual teacher's work by emphasising pedagogical aspects. To this end, the...

The immersive and engaging characteristics of digital games are leading current pedagogical discussions about digital media. Game scientists, (pedagogical) researches, and practitioners continue to attempt to embed digital games in pedagogical settings. They consider these games to be so called serious games. The idea of serious games is that a digital game is not only played for fun and entert...

This study aimed to investigate the association between English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher candidates’ reflective thinking skills (RTSs) and pedagogical competence. Employing correlational study, questionnaire conveying four dimensions of RTSs report performance in microteaching course was used collect data on Using Google Forms, administered 52 EFL candidates. The descriptive statisti...

The article deals with topical issues of education deontological culture in the process training modern teachers, basis which is level professional readiness and pedagogical culture. Modern views on concept “pedagogical deontology”, main components deontology as a science behavior duty worker are analyzed, essence future teacher its structural context development determined.The component define...

Digitization causes fundamental shifts in economy and society. These changes will go in line with significant changes of corporate core competencies as well as the skills and capabilities of employees. Due to the increasing pace of technological development in production and service processes as well as the ongoing trend to automation classic educational approaches will no longer suffice to ens...