Developing skills of extensive reading of local history texts in foreign languages in a digital educational environment

Abstract

Instilling sustainable reading interest in students requires new and innovative teaching approaches. Both general and popular science literature, including local history texts, are under consideration. One of the approaches includes mastering speech skills, based on studying local history texts, using modern digital technologies. This vision of the problem determines the relevance of the research topic, its results are presented in the article. The article proposes new tools to solve this problem, emphasizing that it is not an easy task to get the Z-generation, born and raised in the digital world, involved in reading lengthy texts containing local lore information. This task requires new formats of teaching materials, one of them is a “multimodal text”. The study puts forward and substantiates the hypothesis that the use of multimodal local history texts in teaching foreign languages enables us to develop extensive reading skills and foster national identity, to strengthen historical memory and promote culture, which includes spiritual traditions and historical experience of the peoples living in the Republic of Tatarstan. To prove our hypothesis and validate the obtained results, we conducted a pedagogical experiment based on this methodology. Thus, the leading scientific method in the study is a pedagogical experiment, we also use the systematization and content analysis of scientific and methodological theoretical sources on a given topic.