Active Methods and Techniques of Digesting and Processing Information by Humanities Students in The Classroom

Abstract

The article substantiates the need to update the methodological arsenal of a teacher in higher education and suggests discussing some active and interactive methods of digesting and processing educational text information by humanities degree students in the classroom. Active learning methods are a general name for a group of methods focused on practical learning through the use of modern pedagogical technologies, collective learning, role-playing games, as well as techniques that stimulate students’ cognitive activity and motivate them to conduct professionally significant activities directly in the classroom (without special training). The article briefly describes the methodology of application and the experience of using a number of active and interactive methods and techniques of students’ work, such as the terminological dictation (self-dictation, thesaurus), the text-express, the letter indexing of text and dictionary fragments, the cinquain condensing key information, the puzzle method filling in intentional omissions, the cluster-scheme as a type of generalizing task for group work. The work also outlines the prospects for further understanding of the problem identified in the article. The authors assume that the article presents methods and techniques that will be in demand in the methodological practices of any teacher regardless of the specialization. However, they are especially important for the people who are into humanities and most often deal with text comprehension and text processing.