T. P. Rasskazova

• PhD in Comparative Linguistics
• Head at Ural Federal University

Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory is a powerful foundation for research into teacher professional development. However, while this research has been growing, it has largely been focused on pre-service second/foreign language. Furthermore, there is a lack of research on how the instructional process informed by the principles of Sociocultural Theory,...

The unprecedented emergency remote teaching [Hodges et al., 2020] has created unique challenges, with educators facing higher demands placed on them as they have to assure quality teaching, learning, and assessment under the constraints of time and additional commitments in their professional and personal lives. In this paper, we discuss how existi...

Computer adaptive testing has had a long history in research and practical application worldwide. The large number of both open-access and commercial software platforms developed specifically for creating and administering computer-adaptive tests (CATs) evidences their growing popularity. In foreign language teaching and learning computer-adaptive...

The method of computer-based testing is not new, being widely introduced both as cost-effective, quick for administering. Universities where English is not the language of tuition also seek ways of efficient assessment with the help of computer-based tests. However, there are some challenges of testing low-level learners, as there are very few vali...

With digitization of our life the vast opportunities the virtual world offers are increasingly employed in teaching and learning. Consequently, there are a growing number of researchers who investigate the most efficient ways of engaging learners and gaining successful results from their learning online. While Western universities already take onli...

Over the last several decades advances in technology have permeated almost every aspect of education, foreign language teaching and assessment being no exception. There are a huge number of easily available technological resources, yet language teachers and those involved in designing language tests still need to gain greater familiarity with the p...

The evaluation of teacher professional development efficiency has always been an issue that has attracted attention of professionals in education. This paper reports on the results of a two-year English language teacher professional development programme following a Needs Analysis study conducted by Cambridge ESOL in 2012. Longitudinal research sho...

Introduction. In the conditions of the modern globalization, one of the most significant indicators of competitiveness of the universities is the academic mobility of students, graduate students, teachers and research associates that implies their free and competent enough foreign language skills, first of all English. Yet, until recently, comparat...

The article describes one of the key components of the Ural Federal University’s large-scale project and examines its effectiveness in terms of facilitating its faculty integration into the global academic community. To evaluate the project outcomes a number of indicators were taken into consideration: foreign publications and courses delivered in...

The article deals with the issue of developing uniform qualification requirements for foreign language teachers as an essential condition for improving the quality of language teaching at tertiary level. University graduates’ foreign language communicative competence is an important factor of the professional activity effectiveness in any field. Ho...

The article deals with the issues of topicality of the English language knowledge by university professors in the academic mobility environment. Experience of the Ural Federal University is taken as an example of a continuous professional development system in learning English. It also analyses the peculiarities of self-assessment by adults. A new...

The article presents an analytical comparison of Russian and Western research and practice potential for developing teacher roles (the name traditionally accepted in foreign science). The former is characterized by the large amount of research on training technologies, the art of teaching and theatrical pedagogy, which describes artistic instrument...

The article deals with the issues arising in the process of transition to new studentoriented paradigms in teaching foreign languages to adults connected with the necessity to review traditional teacher and student roles and caused by the lack of readiness of both parties to the educational process to such a shift.

The article deals with a problem of differences in linguistic competences which non-linguistic students are developing while studying English at the University. Despite the uniformity of requirements stated by the National curriculum, various teaching approaches help to develop competences which differ greatly. The analysis of competences formed by...

The article deals with the comparison of Russian and foreign perception of teacher roles (the name traditionally accepted in foreign science) and functions (as they are called in Russian pedagogy). It describes and analyses similarities and differences of these two approaches. The results of the analysis are presented in the table and the following...

ABSTRACT. The article deals with the issue of motivating university teaching staff to learn English as an essential condition for adapting to working in international research and education areasand describes Ural Federal University’s positive experience in solving this problem.

The article deals with helping lower level learners with talking about past habits with used to, would, past simple; focusing on meaning, form, function and use of these structures. It also describes possible problems of acquiring these structures by Russian speakers and possible solutions to these problems.