Students’ Questionnaires

Useful activities in order of their priority

Difficulties

1. Communication with native speakers;

2. Dialogue speaking (pair/team work);

3. Problem solving;

4. Role playing;

5. Spontaneous speaking;

6. Conversational patterns;

7. Listening;

8. Monologue speaking;

9. Grammar exercises;

10. E-mailing (net communication);

11. Reading;

12.Matching exercises;

13. Pronunciation;

14. Learning speech cultures.

1. Lack of classroom hours;

2. Low competence in using functional language;

3. Lack of fluency;

4. Language barrier;

5. No experience in communicating with native speakers;

6. No practice in monologue speaking;

7. No practice in dialogue speaking;

8. Low reading skills;

9. Poor pronunciation (heavy accent);

10. No writing skills;

11. No cultural awareness;

12. Poor grammar;

13. Problems with understanding E speech;

14. Dependence of individual marks on other students’ performance.

Teachers’ feedbacks

Strengths

Challenges

1. High motivation, as knowing English is the 21^st century life skill.

1. Shortage of contact hours.

2. Cultural awareness.

2. Mixed language level groups.

3. Learner-centered approach.

3. Language barrier and phobia.

4. Collaboration and team work.

4. Diverse and low language skills in grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, etc.

5. Learning by doing.

5. Lack of digital equipment to facilitate and upgrade the learning process.

6. Gaining self-confidence.

6. Quiet obscure idea of future specialism needs and discourse.

7. Authentic tasks.

7. Absence of international communication experience.

Improvements suggested by students

*1. To have more classes of English.

*2. To have an ability to use projectors, computers to give presentations, to watch films, etc.

*3. To combine socializing and subject-related material.

4. To implement more authentic and true to life tasks, to expand the scope of topics.

*5. To have more meetings with native speakers.

*6. To have an opportunity to develop grammar and vocabulary skills, etc.

*7. To gain more cultural context.

*1. To increase the number of contact hours.

*2. To have access to multimedia for facilitating the learning process.

*3. To balance socializing and professional communication.

*4. To ensure the possibility of communication in the English language environment.

*5. To improve students’ background in such language competences as grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, etc.

*6. To raise students’ cultural awareness.

7. To give students more autonomy.

8. To develop their learning skills.

9. To deliver the message about necessity of socializing course as a part of their English language learning.

10. Have a set of introductory classes with native speakers who would touch upon the problems of socializing and ways of dealing with them before actual classes on socializing module.

11. The course still needs to be continued at senior courses and it actually never stops, because every day there is a communication and, thus, socializing.