SHOWCASES OF ICT DURING THE COURSES AND SEMINARS ON THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Authors

  • Alexandra COTOC Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. E-mail: alexandra.cotoc@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2395-2958
  • Dorin CHIRA Faculty of Letters, Cluj-napoca, Romania. E-mail: d_chira@msn.com

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2019.4.08

Keywords:

ICT, structuralist approach, English Language, digital tools.

Abstract

Showcases of ICT during the Courses and Seminars on the Grammatical Structure of the English Language. The digital tools and practices are a fundamental aspect in our students’ activities and preoccupations and integrating them in the teaching-learning process triggers and keeps our students’ engagement and motivation. Our study focuses on the educational context provided by the academic environment and it illustrates the use of three digital tools and activities during courses and seminars on the Grammatical Structure of the English Language taught to first year students at Babeș-Bolyai University, the Faculty of Letters, specialisation English Language and Literature.

REZUMAT. Utilizarea TIC la cursul și seminarul de Structura Gramaticală a Limbii Engleze. Instrumentele și practicile digitale constituie aspecte esențiale ale activităților și preocupărilor studenților din ziua de astăzi, iar folosirea acestora în procesul de predare-învățare determină și menține implicarea și motivația studenților. Studiul de față se axează pe contextul educațional oferit de mediul academic și ilustrează folosirea a trei instrumente și activități digitale la cursul de Structura Gramaticală a Limbii Engleze predat studenților de an I, la Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Facultatea de Litere, specializarea Limbă și Literatură Engleză.

Cuvinte cheie: TIC, abordare structuralistă, limba engleză, instrumente digitale

Author Biographies

Alexandra COTOC, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. E-mail: alexandra.cotoc@gmail.com

Alexandra Cotoc is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature and a collaborator of the Department of Languages for Specific Purposes at the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. E-mail: alexandra.cotoc@gmail.com

Dorin CHIRA, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-napoca, Romania. E-mail: d_chira@msn.com

Dorin Chira is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters. His primary research areas are lexicology and lexicography, morphology and sociolinguistics. E-mail: d_chira@msn.com

References

Cotoc, Alexandra (2019), “Students as Experts and the End Result of SSR Performance in an ESP Course for Psychology”, in Innovation in Language Learning International Conference Proceedings. Bologna: Filodiritto, pp. 308-314.

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Online sources

https://www.toptools4learning.com/padlet/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/padlet/id834618886

Digital tools:

http://padlet.com

https://www.mentimeter.com/

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Published

2019-12-15

How to Cite

COTOC, A., & CHIRA, D. (2019). SHOWCASES OF ICT DURING THE COURSES AND SEMINARS ON THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, 64(4), 147–156. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2019.4.08

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