New Foreign Language Education for Sustainable Development in the Culturally Specific Context

D. Ivanova, A. Polenova

2021

Abstract

This paper aims to describe into the latest sustainable development issues in the field of for-eign language teaching that have been adopted at Southern Federal University. In order to provide insights into language teaching practices regarded as essential to contribute to a sus-tainable future we raise the issue of culturally specific educational environment. It also at-tempts to discuss the new trends and challenges that result from the need to adapt to the new social, economic and educational contexts in such areas as methods and approaches, with an emphasis on Blended Teaching, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), English for Specific Purposes (ESP); teacher training; innovation in the classroom, assessment practices.These issues correspond to the key areas in the new language teaching. Methods and ap-proaches described in the paper enable language experts to keep up with the far-reaching changes directly affecting the learners’ lives and the quality of new of future generations. In addition, the indicators of the new educational paradigm are revealed, with a focus on the op-portunities for achieving sustainability in the light of this paradigm. Finally, we want to high-light that conceptualizing new realities of assessment is also seen as one of the major objec-tives of .

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ivanova D. and Polenova A. (2021). New Foreign Language Education for Sustainable Development in the Culturally Specific Context. In Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Forum on Sustainable Development of Socio-economic Systems - Volume 1: WFSDS, ISBN 978-989-758-597-5, pages 437-443. DOI: 10.5220/0010669900003223

in Bibtex Style

@conference{wfsds21,
author={D. Ivanova and A. Polenova},
title={New Foreign Language Education for Sustainable Development in the Culturally Specific Context},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Forum on Sustainable Development of Socio-economic Systems - Volume 1: WFSDS,},
year={2021},
pages={437-443},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010669900003223},
isbn={978-989-758-597-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Forum on Sustainable Development of Socio-economic Systems - Volume 1: WFSDS,
TI - New Foreign Language Education for Sustainable Development in the Culturally Specific Context
SN - 978-989-758-597-5
AU - Ivanova D.
AU - Polenova A.
PY - 2021
SP - 437
EP - 443
DO - 10.5220/0010669900003223