To teach – in English

The teaching staff of the “Foreign Languages” ​​department of the Branch of the Russian State University of Oil and Gas (NRU) named after I.M.Gubkin in Tashkent city shared efficient teaching methods of the English during the workshop named “Scholarly research” with their colleagues from the Academic Lyceum.

In her welcoming speech N.N. Muratova, the head of “Foreign Languages” department has emphasized that currently knowledge of a foreign languages is one of the outstanding indicators of the high level of professional training of students and it is a topical issue within the framework of the reform of higher education in the republic. The Branch pays a particular attention to this issue: lectures in English by leading industry experts are regularly organized, and educational and methodological literature is updated with new editions. Moreover, she noted that nowadays, in connection with the law on science and scientific activity recently adopted in Uzbekistan, it is precisely the issues of the research that focus on why the topic of the seminar is “Scholarly research”. “This workshop was organized in accordance with the Roadmap of the Foreign Languages ​​Department for the 2019-2020 academic year. Collaboration with the Academic Lyceum in order to exchange practical experience in the form of open workshops, training seminars is a long-standing good tradition for the teaching staff of the Branch of the Russian State University of Oil and Gas, and thus it seems significant to conduct a thematic joint project in the first days of the new year” -  N.N. Muratova noted.

Participants of this workshop were: the Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​D.K. Kadirbekova, Senior Lecturers F.M. Musaeva, D.R. Taktasheva, G.S. Sultanova, D.S. razikova, I.T. Bakhramova and English teachers at the Academic Lyceum - Sh. Mirzaev, Sh. Mamasolieva and Sh.Nazirova. The seminar was also attended by the faculty staff of the department "Social and Humanitarian Disciplines."

The Associate Professor D.Kh.Kadirdekova shared her rich experience in teaching the disciplineIn her presentation, the speaker paid a particular attention to research issues in the aspect of applied linguistics, she also examined in detail the most common and actively used methods and approaches.

Sultanova G.S, a senior lecturer of the “Foreign Languages” Department spoke about her participation in the international conference “GlobELT-2019” in the Republic of Cyprus, where she made a presentation on the topic “Methods of using Authentic News Articles in ESP teaching”. During the presentation, G.S. Sultanova acquainted the participants in the training seminar with the author’s research conducted in the framework of the specifically identified problem, the methods used and the results obtained.

The event was held in an interactive form, in particular, all its participants tried to give their own definition of the concept of “research”, as well as to offer optimal solutions to the proposed cases. In conclusion, an exchange of results was held regarding the techniques used in their teaching methods, in particular, in solving pedagogical problems.

Following the results of the l training workshop, all participants expressed their willingness to continue cooperation in the field of publishing joint scientific articles.

Press Service of the Branch