STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING: IT STARTS WITH THE TEACHER

. The use of student-centred teaching methods is a significant challenge for all secondary and tertiary education teachers. Since joining the Bologna Process, more attention has been paid to student-centred learning in Kazakhstani education and discussed in all education sectors. Having experienced mainly teacher-centred learning approaches, teachers still need some methodological help to avoid traditional teaching.
This article discusses ideas for student-centred teaching methods. The Dialogue method is explored as an active and cooperative teaching method. The term "dialogue of cultures" is utilised for a student-centred teaching methodology based on the dialogue in the online "Language and Globalization" course. By engaging in dialogue, students interact with each other; it helps increase students' interpersonal, presentation, interpretive and intercultural speech activity and is one of the most effective means of forming a linguistic personality. This approach also fosters creativity and deep thinking when used alongside various virtual educational tools.
In a student-centred learning environment, professors and students learn together through stimulating, interactive and thought-provoking experiences; this is generally believed to improve teaching (Warming&Frydensberg, 2017) and student learning. Students develop cross-cultural, critical thinking and active citizenship skills and are thus better prepared for the current and future labour market and social membership.