Debates (Model United Nations for University Students) as a Means of Developing and Assessing Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Competences

Student: Chashko Marina

Educational Programme: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

Research is dedicated to studying debates method as a comprehensive educational technology and the usage of Model United Nations simulation as one of the debates formats in the process of developing and assessing sociolinguistic and pragmatic students’ competences. Research results have shown that organizing Model United Nations simulation that effectively combines the features of a problem-solving discussion and a role-playing game can be used as a tool of creating problematic situations within a problem-based learning theory. Preparation and participation in Model United Nations debates contribute to developing and assessing such students’ skills and abilities that are useful in their academic and future professional life, and, at the same time, effective in attaining students’ sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences.

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