Conveners
OER (Open Educational Resources) in LSP teaching and learning and influence of technologies on LSP integration with teaching and learning of other subjects
- Jana Kuzmina (University of Latvia)
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the unprecedented and unexpected occasion to all around the world since 2020. There were 130 country-wide closures that affected approximately a hundred million learners at the time of February 2021 (UNESCO, n. d.). This caused a significant paradigm shift in educational mode, i.e., face-to-face learning environments to online/virtual learning environments. As a...
One of the best options for special lexis research is the use of corpora. However, it should be acknowledged that in practice special corpora are not always available for specific domains, as is the case, for example, with the names of organisms and special lexis of botany or zoology.
Therefore, for the study of this LSP, researchers often create their own Excel spreadsheets with the...
The demand for teaching Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) is growing steadily, which can be explained by wider employment opportunities in an international environment. However, standardized training programmes for LSP teachers are missing in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). With the aim of raising awareness of the work developed by some European scholars within the framework of...
Distant learning and constant changes in learning process organization have shown that there is a significant need to select the technologies to scaffold the learning process in humanities. Students should be equipped with the tools to conduct research, visualize data and acquire study material.
The goal of the present ongoing research is to investigate the functionality of digital tools...
Interactive documentary is an emergent genre which makes use of digital affordances in order to communicate science using varied narrative structures (Gaudenzi, 2013). Interactive documentaries can adopt different patterns of discourse organisation or modes of interaction with viewers interested in science. These are complemented by multimodal tools existing in digital platforms. In the...
