Milovanova Developing High School Students’ Listening Skills in The Context of Multimodal English Communication by Means of a MoodleBased Training Program

Abstract

There are many publications about the importance of emotions in the educational process. They prove that emotions are an effective management tool, including the attention of students. However, the practical application of this tool remains outside the scope of research, that is, there are no methods for managing emotions. This article offers the experience of transferring theoretical concepts into practice using all basic emotions in the context of the main forms of studies at the university.The aim of the research is to analyze the features of the use of emotions in the educational process in higher education and to offer practical tools for managing emotions.Research methods: content analysis of specialized literature, morphological analysis of all basic emotions and basic forms of employment, descriptive analysis for presenting emotion management tools, their main advantages and disadvantages.Results: correspondence of emotions to learning goals and forms of classes was obtained, a method for managing students’ emotions was developed, a test example of applying the method was given, the capabilities and limitations of the most common tools for managing emotions were analyzed: teaching metaphor, storytelling, facilitation, and gamification.Practical use. The results allow managing the students’ emotions in the context of solving educational and methodological problems. The proposed tools are universal and can be used in teaching technical and humanitarian disciplines to increase the emotional involvement of the audience in the educational process, as a motivating component, thereby increasing the quality of mastering the material.Discussion. Since excessive emotions can block the cognitive abilities of students, lead to emotional “sticking”, methods of harmonizing the cognitive and emotional components in the educational process are needed.