“of Course, like all experience of existence in the present circumstances is experienced me for the first time, he said. – However, many people in my field are language teachers – has the advantage. Means of remote communication, different media technologies and methods of teaching online for a long time and are widely practiced in the circle of advanced professionals. As far as I noticed of communication in the professional groups in social networks and personal correspondence with colleagues, some of them not even really noticed a change. Especially it concerns teachers not currently working in universities. The fact that my colleagues and I teach Russian language to foreigners. And foreigners very often are away from the teacher without any quarantine”.
Tapkov noted that has a fairly limited experience of teaching on Skype, able to effectively use the platform Zoom, etc. “However, in the local circumstances I was faced with a paradox in today’s situation, – said the representative of RGM. – I will explain. One of the problems of modern society is that older generations often lag behind in technical literacy of young people. And teachers sometimes can not cope with It-their pupils, working the “old way”. But at this point I was ready to offer to its students from the Republic of Srpska much more than they can take. And I was quite “advanced”, and the administration of the Philosophical faculty of the University of East Sarajevo has undertaken significant efforts to ensure the technical possibility of remote training. But the fact that the quarantined students had mostly parted on the even more remote villages, where sometimes it is even just on the Internet or, at least, its enough power. Don’t know if it should make me feel better, but the same problem was faced by my colleague in Japan(!), countries with a reputation as a leader in technological progress. Anyway, the idea of online classes with live chat had to be deleted. You have to look for other methods and to deal sometimes with very unexpected obstacles.”
the Scholar said, leading a lecture course that includes workshops, classes in Russian orthography and conversation classes. “It is clear that the first two segments are affected to a smaller degree, he said. – I send the students e-mail the lecture notes, assignments, and exercises. They send them back to me to check, and I again send them a comment, work on the bugs. Difficult, of course, was to arrange for a substitute (of full replacement out of the question) of classroom for speaking practice. Shoveled a lot of Internet resources… I Think it might make sense to go into professional specific. Wide Chi��the user will be interested in. Let me just say that fully operates the well-known principle: the one who wants is looking for opportunity who does not want, looks for reasons (excuses). Students who were active in face-to-face classes, work in good faith and in non-standard conditions. And someone I like you’ve never seen before, and now. Those students read and watch what I send”.
Tapkov have focused on the fact that in the time basis, he began to work much more than usual. “Yeah, I don’t go to work, but spend a lot of time on the computer and books to find that, to the maximum extent compensate for students lack of direct contact not only with the teacher but with fellow students, – he stated. – An unexpected extension of the working time is connected with the fact that the Internet significantly increased the activity of the professional community of teachers as a foreign language. I have not watched such a number of webinars, participated in so many discussions and exchange of experience in the relevant groups in social networks, etc. Is very good. We are United, we will work the next time (God forbid, of course!) we will be ready even better. After all, has become a truism the idea that the world is still, even in favourable conditions, will change towards a more active and widespread use of modern technology. By the way, recently my employer, a Russian humanitarian mission was equipped at the Philosophical faculty of the University of East Sarajevo, the modern study of the Russian language, which has already begun to be actively used by me and my colleagues. We hope to in the near future local students in any part of the country were able to freely use the technical possibilities offered by the Alma mater and their caring Russian partners”.
meanwhile, in may 2019 in celebration of the Day of the Philosophical faculty of the University of East Sarajevo Russian humanitarian mission in the Balkans has received the award “For outstanding contribution to the development of international relations of the Faculty”. On behalf of the management of RGM, an award from the Dean of the faculty of Mastilovic Draghi then took Ilya Tapkov.
