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Michael Fullan, an outstanding modern author on educational issues, states that “teachers’ capacities to deal with change,
learn from it, and help students learn from it will be critical for the future development of societies” [2]. So, a relevant choice of
innovative teaching methods depends on a teacher. All educators are advised to be computer-literate to meet the ever-increasing
requirements of educational environment. It is vital to emphasize that some teachers are still bad at computers. They do not strive
to enhance their computer-literacy. Thus, they are unable to use ample 21st century technology-based opportunities for bettering
their students’ language learning abilities. Dr Gary Motteram from the University of Manchester acknowledges that “we are now
firmly embedded in a time when digital technologies are ‘normalized’ in daily life in
many parts of the world, although not
amongst all people as there are digital divisions everywhere, and still not always in the world of education” [8].
Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, PhD, the Director of Sultan Qaboos University's
Humanities Research Center, considers that “the
application of computer technologies in language instruction provides a student-centred learning environment. It enables course
administrators and teachers to vary lesson presentation styles to motivate students of varying interests,
provides learning
opportunities outside the classroom (hence increasing learner interaction with the language), and is perceived to cater more for
individual differences” [1].
For example, being the biggest video library ever, YouTube can easily become a must-have and valuable tool
in an English
classroom. No doubt, for language learning it is an advanced method of English language teaching to undergraduate law students.
Educational establishments need to recommend their teaching staff to start attending teacher development courses to make their
‘knowledge-givers’ much more computer-literate. It is quite essential to utilize the efficient potential
of YouTube concentrating
on English language learning. Law students can’t help enjoying these tools especially in terms of legal topics. Being a free online
resource, YouTube’s availability keeps encouraging students as well other people worldwide.
Implementing educational videos, for example from YouTube, and podcasts is one of the most efficient ways. It has been
proved that the academic-related films and documentaries have amazingly bettered the participation levels of law students.
Consequently, they enable language learners to get efficient valuable learning experience. Suitable videos and podcasts assist
students to be much more attentive, motivated and concentrated on the target topic. Films and serials enable to perfect memory
skills and deepen knowledge.
There is a wide range of benefits of implementing clips. A skillful teacher is perfectly aware of the difficulties his/her learners
face in this type of activity and does the best to overcome them. Despite various challenges watching videos is still considered
to be one of the most exciting and interesting language experiences. Visual content encourages motivation, expands linguistic
knowledge and cultural outlook of law students. English podcasts and clips aim at mastering the language skills and abilities.
Video and audio materials are sure to be much more advantageous than printed information.
Famous researchers Yaverbaum, Kulkarni and Wood state that “integrating multimedia into
the traditional learning
environment not only enriches the styles of presentation, but also has the advantage of increasing language retention” [10].
In the modern complicated
system of education, skilled and highly–qualified educators are known to be educational
psychologists as they play a key role in achieving high academic grades. This also comprises “finding ways to identify students
who may need extra help, developing programs aimed at helping students who are struggling and even creating new learning
methods” [4].
Undergraduate law students are considered to be a special category of students that possess specific needs especially when
it comes to learning an English language. There are many various aspects that affect the academic grades of undergraduate law
students. Their performance greatly depends on relevant time-management skills, type of parenting, etc. Study held by Okolie
U. C. and Inyiagu E. E shows that “social background remains one of the major sources of educational inequality. In other words,
educational success depends largely on the socioeconomic status of one’s parents” [9]. The great number of law students spends
too much time ‘hitting the books’ especially during their final exams which can easily lead to undue stress.
It is necessary to highlight that an experienced teacher’s goal is do the utmost to meet these needs. Reading online and offline
instructive information is of great importance to get law students engaged into learning. Educators
should strive to motivate
students to perfect their knowledge in terms of English. The following top tips can be implemented by language teachers for
better learning academic outcome:
1) Analyze learners’ requirements and interests;
2) Organize various challenging round talks;
3) Create significant linguistic activities;
4) Use
innovative technology;
5) Enhance competitive atmosphere among students, etc.
Creating positive and exciting environment in a language classroom tends to turn learning into memorable experience.
Undergraduate law students acquire essential psychological skills to think about themselves in a positive manner, their fellow
students and the material they are getting acquainted with.
Increased level of interaction between teachers and law students guarantees further development of forward-looking ways
of English language teaching. Although a teacher is a major element during a learning process, learner-oriented lessons are to
prevail over teacher-oriented ones. Knowledge as well as educational philosophy must be turned over to students. An educator
needs to be a creative thinking person to inspire students with the best and most up-to-date means.
To conclude it is necessary to summarize that differentiating educational terminology is crucial to get a reader involved into
a specific area of investigation. A target audience needs to be regarded from different sides as learners as well as individuals. It
is important for an educator to keep browsing the Internet to better both the teaching methods and computer skills. Consequently,
all up-to-date English teaching procedures are needed to teach undergraduate law students to be highly-qualified legal specialists
with a good knowledge of a foreign language. Developing competitive thinking capacities due to innovative teaching tools is of
great demand nowadays. Teachers and undergraduate students as well as postgraduate ones represent an educational community
that needs to strive for more and more up-to-date information in some specific sphere. Later everyone will undoubtedly reap the
engaging benefits of their persistent hard work. A dedicated teacher will be satisfied with the best
academic success of the
students whereas a hard-working and diligent undergraduate learner will be pleased with a scientific research result.