Open AccessEssence of Authenticity and its Criteria in the English Language Classroom
Author(s) -
Anastasia S. Syunina,
Iskander Yarmakeev,
Tatiana Pimenova,
Albina R. Abdrafikova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of social sciences research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-6670
pISSN - 2411-9458
DOI - 10.32861/jssr.spi1.220-225
Subject(s) - mathematics education , foreign language , divergence (linguistics) , computer science , psychology , bridging (networking) , linguistics , pedagogy , philosophy , computer network
The main goal of our research was to analyze students can sound authentic in the English language classroom. The theoretical analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature plus the analysis of the empirical experience of teaching foreign languages were chosen as the leading research methods. the results showed that most of the surveyed students expressed a wish to be able to sound authentic and improve their language skills. When the essence of authenticity in teaching and learning EFL is identified and approbated there can be chosen appropriate teaching techniques and learning activities which have the power of bridging the eternal divergence between two targets of L2 learners: sounding more like a native speaker or simply sounding more fluent. This frames the research goal of the experiment which is scheduled to be conducted at the second (final) stage of the research.