Abstract:

This article discusses new educational trends in the 21st century. It is widely known that today’s young people are very constituent in choosing their future career. Being generation Z, they are actively involved in using modern technologies in all life areas including education. The previous teacher-student face-to-face model is giving way to a new interactive lesson where teachers eagerly use mobile and digital technologies to excite students’ curiosity. Students wish to be engaged in the activities using mobile and digital technologies.

In this article we ponder on how a QR code may be a successful way to organize an English lesson for non-language university students and make it more interesting for them. In order to conduct this study, we introduced QR technology in the classroom activities among students at the Institute of Medicine (RUDN University). Fifty students (three language groups) were involved in the experiment. The main goal was to make students more engaged in the educational process. This paper describes a lesson with the use of QR technologies and shows the rate of students’ involvement in the process. The results show the rate of involvement of those students who took part in the experiment and those who did not. We also speak about the reasonability of QR codes at the lesson and discuss students’ performance. We may suggest the implication of the results of our experiment when we teach students (non-linguists) with a view to increasing their motivation of learning a foreign language.

Keywords:

Generation z, education, English language, mobile technologies, digital technologies, QR code.