Health Saving Technology at Foreign Language Lessons with University Students

Abstract

The article deals with the technology of saving and improving students’ health, which was developed in order to promote healthy lifestyle in universities. The paper describes an experiment on the introduction of the authors’ technology. The experiment has been held in Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. The purpose of the study is to confirm and to verify experimentally the effectiveness of the authors’ health saving technology at foreign language lessons with students of higher educational institutions. The technology consists of three stages: teachers-focused preparation stage (preparation of teachers for conducting health saving activity at their lessons), students-focused motivation stage (providing students with some knowledge about the basics of human health and promoting healthy lifestyle in student environment), activity implementation stage (purposeful systematic work directed at saving and improving the students’ health). The results of the experiment were compared by several indicators of Life Quality Index such as: Living Conditions and Lifestyle, Food Diet and Water Intake, Emotional Health, and Activity Level. Methods of mathematical statistics helped to prove the efficiency of the authors’ health serving technology at foreign language lessons with university students. Thus, the technology can be used by other teachers in higher school.