japanjournalЯпонские исследованияJapanese Studies in Russia2500-2872Association of Japanologists; Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences10.24412/2500-2872-2021-4-79-93japanjournal-110Research ArticleСтатьиПреодоление изоляции в условиях пандемии и постпандемии: на примере России и Японии в сфере высшего образованияDefeating isolation in the pandemic and post pandemic new dispensation: The case study of Russia and Japan in higher educationhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6337-3870ЖилинаЛ. В.ZhilinaL. V.

Жилина Лариса Владимировна - кандидат исторических наук, доцент, факультет Иностранных языков.

644077, Омск, пр-т Мира, 55А.

Larisa V. Zhilina - PhD (History), Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, F.M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University.

55A, Mira Str., Omsk, 644077.

larissa-zhilina@yandex.ruОмский государственный университет им. Ф.М. ДостоевскогоРоссияF.M. Dostoevsky Omsk State UniversityRussian Federation202121012022047993Copyright © Жилина Л.В., 20222022Жилина Л.В.Zhilina L.V.Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://www.japanjournal.ru/jour/article/view/110

Вспышка пандемии COVID-19 с начала 2020 г. резко повлияла на развитие высшего образования в различных аспектах, включая переход от очного к онлайн-обучению, отмену различных мероприятий и активностей и формирование «новой нормальности» в высшем образовании [Tesar 2020]. В то же время пандемия повысила виртуальную мобильность и совместное онлайн-обучение, создав альтернативу физической мобильности студентов. Для развития продвижения межкультурного диалога посредством онлайн-общения, основанного на изучении иностранных языков, и для мотивации студентов, преподаватели из Университета Кансай (Япония, Осака) и Омского государственного университета им. Ф.М. Достоевского (Россия, Омск) начали использовать платформу Flipgrid для межкультурного онлайн-обмена между студентами вышеуказанных вузов.

В настоящем исследовании в контексте вышеизложенного анализируются результаты онлайн-опроса, проведённого среди студентов этих двух вузов. Цель опроса - понять, что именно мотивировало студентов на участие в нём и как они оценивают это участие. Результаты исследования свидетельствуют, что участники положительно отзывались как об актуальности модели эффективной языковой практики, так и о значении международного общения для лучшего понимания культуры и людей страны - ближайшего соседа по АТР. Таким образом, изучение культурных особенностей других представляет собой первый шаг в приобретении межкультурных компетенций для студентов обоих университетов и для начала межкультурного диалога между ними.

The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic since early 2020 has dramatically impacted higher education development in various aspects, including the shift of face-to-face teaching to online teaching and learning, the cancellation of physical events and activities, and the formation of a “new normality” in higher education [Tesar, 2020]. At the same time, COVID-19 has increased virtual mobility and collaborative online learning as alternatives to physical student mobility.

For developing promotion of intercultural dialogue through the online communication based on learning foreign languages and motivating students, faculty members from Kansai University (Japan, Osaka) and F.M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University (Russia, Omsk) started to use the platform Flipgrid for intercultural online exchange between the students of the above-mentioned universities.

Based on an online survey of students' participation in the exchange project, this research examines how the Russo-Japanese intercultural online project affected students' motivation and ultimately their participation in the project, as well as their evaluation of the achieved results. The feedback from this project has been positive - participants commented favorably on both the relevance of the model of effective language practice and the significance of international communication for better cultural understanding and furthering human relationships with Japan, a close neighbor of Russia in the Asia-Pacific region. It may be surmised that an appreciation for cultural diversity and other cultures provides the first step in developing the competences necessary for operating in multicultural environments. Therefore, this was, for the students of both universities, the start of intercultural dialogue between them.

Япониямежкультурное общениеяпонские студентымеждународный онлайн-проектвзаимодействие студентовJapanintercultural communicationJapanese studentsinternational online projectstudent collaborationПрежде всего, я хотела бы выразить искреннюю благодарность людям, без которых я не смогла бы завершить это исследование, моим японским коллегам: г-же Е. Бакун -преподавателю русского языка (Университет Кансай, Япония) - за идею этих проектов, а также г-же Т. Китаока - преподавателю русского языка (Университет Кансай, Япония), студенты которых участвовали в этих проектах. Хочу поблагодарить студентов Кансайского университета и Омского государственного университета им. Ф.М. Достоевского за содействие и сотрудничество. Хотелось бы выразить благодарность г-ну Е.Н. Кручине за важные комментарии к работе и г-ну Т. Уильямсу -консультанту по политике и политическим вопросам (Лондон, Великобритания) за стимулирующие вопросы к моему исследованию и редактирование этой статьи.First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the following people without whom I would not have been able to complete this research - my Japanese colleagues: Ms. Elena Bakoun, instructor of Russian language (Kansai University, Japan) for generating these projects' ideas and whose students participated in this intercultural online project, and also Ms. Chinatsu Kitaoka, instructor of Russian language (Kansai University, Japan), whose students participated in these projects. I would like to thank students of both universities, Kansai University and F.M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University, for participating in these international projects. 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