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International Students’ Creative Thinking Development via the TRIZ Method in a Multilingual Audience

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Technologies in a Multilingual Environment (PCSF 2022)

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The article validates the possibility and efficiency of improving creative thinking ability while teaching English via the TRIZ (theory of inventive problem solving) method to international students. The objectives of the current research are (a) to investigate the lingoudidactic potential of TRIZ problem-solving method in the process of teaching English to international students, (b) to describe the algorithm of international students` creative thinking development via the TRIZ method, (c) to check the effectiveness of the devised algorithm. In our research TRIZ is considered as a set of methods for solving logical tasks, consisting of the following steps: general preparation, situation analysis, questions preparation, hypotheses generation, hypotheses selection, hypotheses testing. The ambitions behind the devised algorithm are to teach in-depth analysis of the situation, to intensify critical and logical thinking in a non-standard situation, to overcome stereotypical thinking, to stimulate teamwork and communication abilities. The methodology has been tested on the second-year international students from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University majoring in Public Relations in the year 2021. The methods of this research include both theoretical (assessment of the key pedagogical principles of the TRIZ Method integration and generalization of facts and concepts, data analysis) and empirical ones (methodological algorithm development, a set of experiments: educational and control, evaluation of educational outcomes). We have obtained satisfactory results demonstrating that the problem-based learning algorithm devised leads to an improvement in students’ creative thinking ability.

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    Svyatoslava Bozhik, Ekaterina Bagrova & Ekaterina Osipova

  2. St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation

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Bozhik, S., Bagrova, E., Osipova, E. (2023). International Students’ Creative Thinking Development via the TRIZ Method in a Multilingual Audience. In: Bylieva, D., Nordmann, A. (eds) Technologies in a Multilingual Environment. PCSF 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26783-3_38

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