When teaching foreign students in Russian universities training of qualified specialists requires solving a number of problems associated with teaching special disciplines. In the context of bilingual education, the problem of low level of understanding and assimilation of the content of an English-language chemistry lecture by the medical university foreign students was studied. In the study two groups of foreign students participated: control group and experimental one. During the ascertaining experiment, both groups of foreign students were asked to assess the level of understanding of the content of the oral text of the English-language chemistry lecture and the expression of interest in the subject being studied during the lecture. The level of assimilation of the lecture content was calculated. As a result, the problem of a sharp decrease in the level of understanding of the oral English-language educational material by students during the lesson was discovered. A low level of assimilation of the lecture content was revealed. In order to improve the levels of understanding and assimilation of the content of English-language chemistry lectures by foreign students, the author developed visual aids accompanying the lectures and proposed its use as a tool for solving the problem. The correctness of the hypothesis was confirmed experimentally. It was shown that the use of visual aids increases the levels of understanding and assimilation of the content of an English-language chemistry lecture by foreign students.
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Problem of perception of belles-lettres works with mythological structures by high school students
This article examines the perception of belles-lettres works with explicit mythological structures in Ukrainian literature by senior secondary school students. The integral perception of a belles-lettres text depends on the students’ understanding of the author’s mythological figurative language. The aim of the research is to define the problems of children’s perception of mythological structures by classification into levels, and further to propose some ways for improving intelligibility of such texts. The experimental work involved analysis and synthesis, a study of curricula and belles-lettres, and diagnostic questioning. The research was carried out during the academic years 2017- 2018 with 208 pupils in three general education institutions. The analysis corroborates the working hypothesis about the complicated nature of knowledge about the specificity of world outlook within the frame of a certain mythological system.