Peeragogy and paragogy as the newest approaches to education 
(based on examples of some Internet-communities of English language learners and teachers)

By Catherine O. Shevtsova
Yulia S. Yatsenko

Southern Federal University

Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication

shevtsova-kate@yandex.ru

julia_yatsenko@mail.ru

Abstract

The article is devoted to studying new approaches to education and self-education, known as “paragogy” and “peeragogy.” The novelty of these trends is that learning is carried out entirely on the Internet and without explicit teachers. These pedagogical approaches can be successfully applied in any field of study, but the article focuses on studying foreign languages and foreign language teachers` professionalism rising.

Key words: Peeragogy, paragogy, peer learning, modern EFLT methods, Internet as a means of learning and teaching.