TECHNOLOGY OF PROFESSIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL TRAINING BASED ON ADAPTIVE EDUTAINMENT
Keywords:
adaptive learning, edutainment, professional and methodological training, pre-service English teacher, individual learning pathway, gamification, pedagogical diagnosis, feedback, reflection, professional transfer.Abstract
This article develops a technology for organising the professional and methodological training of pre-service English language teachers through adaptive edutainment. The study aims to substantiate a technological solution that integrates diagnostic evidence, professional teaching situations, and game-informed learning activity within a single didactic cycle. The conceptual design study employed content analysis of scholarly sources, comparative analysis, pedagogical modelling, and functional decomposition. The resulting technology comprises five stages: diagnosis; goal setting and individual route selection; edutainment activity; immediate feedback and correction; and reflection with professional transfer. Learners’ language proficiency, the quality of their methodological decisions, motivation, and learning behaviour are defined as adaptation variables. Assessment criteria are proposed for the motivational-axiological, cognitive-methodological, operational, digital-didactic, and reflective-adaptive components of professional readiness. The technology treats edutainment not as a collection of external rewards but as a professional learning mechanism for modelling classroom situations, making pedagogical decisions, and analysing their consequences. Its empirical effectiveness should be examined through a subsequent controlled educational experiment.
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