Kemerovo, Russian Federation
Online reading clubs can be integrated into the university environment as a means of organizing students’ independent work. Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize and understand one’s own emotions and those of others. Online reading clubs can serve as a means of developing emotional intelligence in university students. In this research, this issue is treated as interdisciplinary and studied from the perspectives of psychology, cultural linguistics, cognitive literary studies, and pedagogy. A model of an online reading club was theoretically substantiated and practically tested as an academic environment where reading and group discussion facilitate group reflection in a remote format. The approach was based on the principles of reading as empathic modeling, as well as on the linguistic and cultural mechanisms of text emotivity. The study involved Master’s Degree students majoring in Foreign Languages in Professional Communication from Kemerovo State University. The first online reading club marathon was held from October 1, 2023, to May 1, 2024, and the second one lasted from October 1, 2025, to the end of May 2026. The online reading club proved to be an important tool since it combined traditional methods of text interpretation with digital technologies. Its members became much more active readers, expanding their reading experience far beyond the curriculum.
online reading club, emotional intelligence, educational resource, digital environment, social media, digital reading practice
1. Volkodav T. V. Formation of future educational psychologists' emotional intelligence. Historical and Social Educational Ideas, 2016, 8(5-3): 51–53. (In Russ.) https://elibrary.ru/xhcwcn
2. Voronina L. A. Virtual book club "City of Books" as a tool of formation of reader's literacy. The didactics of the online lesson: Proc. Intern. Online Conf., Minsk, 17–18 Nov 2016. Minsk: BSPU, 2016, 127–129. (In Russ.) https://elibrary.ru/wswvru
3. Gilfanova I. S. The study of emotional intelligence: The concept of "emotional intelligence" in Russian and foreign psychology. Concepts, theory and methodology of fundamental and applied scientific research: Proc. Intern. Sci.-Prac. Conf., Voronezh, 10 Jan 2024. Ufa: Aeterna, 2024, 151–155. (In Russ.) https://elibrary.ru/mmpnif
4. Golev N. D. E-mail correspondence as strategy and tactics of teaching foreign languages (linguodidactic project). Language and Culture, 2015, (2): 105–116. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17223/19996195/30/12
5. Duskaeva L. R., Ivanova L. Yu. Linguocreativity in composing a Telegram channel paratext. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature, 2023, 20(1): 40–60. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.103
6. Efremov V. A. Lurkoyaz as a hater language. Network communication: New formats for science, education, and promotional communications: Proc. Intern. Sci. Forum, St. Petersburg, 27–28 Nov 2020. St. Petersburg: SPbPU, 2020, 58–60. (In Russ.) https://elibrary.ru/wifhzc
7. Zorina E. M. The methodology of using the reader’s book club as a tool for developing the student’s legal culture. Sovremennoe pedagogicheskoe obrazovanie, 2025, (8): 184–191. (In Russ.) https://elibrary.ru/rgwjlp
8. Ivanova M. V., Klushina N. I., Smirnova N. V. Linguocreativity of modern Internet space (on Runet). Vestnik of Lobachevsky University of Nizhni Novgorod, 2024, (5): 216–222. (In Russ.) https://elibrary.ru/whygwr
9. Klushina N. I. Trends in development of Russian language lexicon in Internet communicative space. Terra Linguistica, 2023, 14(3): 52–60. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18721/JHSS.14305
10. Kulichenko Yu. N., Korolevskaya E. M. The development of emotional intelligence of psychology students while teaching a foreign language. Artium Magister, 2022, 22(2): 39–44. (In Russ.) https://elibrary.ru/nhlpmm
11. Linguistic creativity in different types of discourses: Limits and possibilities, ed. Zykova I. V. Moscow: R.Valent, 2021, 564. (In Russ.) https://elibrary.ru/tjgjzq
12. Oldenburg R. The great good place: Cafes, coffee shops, bookstores, bars, hair salons, and other hangouts at the heart of a community. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2014. 456. (In Russ.)
13. Ragimkhanova L. K., Gasanova Sh. S., Alibulatova N. E. The role of the discipline "foreign language" in development of emotional intelligence in students of pedagogical universities. The world of science, culture and education, 2025, (1): 292–295. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24412/1991-5497-2025-1110-292-295
14. Romanova L. L. Development of emotional intelligence in university students. Vestnik Amurskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya: Gumanitarnye nauki, 2025, (110): 82–85. (In Russ.) https://elibrary.ru/buldhc
15. Sedykh D. V. From emotion to creative motion: Linguodidactic mechanisms for stimulating the students emotional and creative development in teaching foreign languages. Professional Education in Russia and Abroad, 2025, (2): 112–120. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.54509/22203036_2025_2_112
16. Yurasov I. A., Yurasova O. N. Development of professional competences of students of language higher education institutions. XXI vek: itogi proshlogo i problemy nastoyashchego plyus, 2014, 2(2): 88–92. (In Russ.) https://elibrary.ru/scjkel
17. Goleman D. Emotional intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ. New York: Bantam Books, 2005, 352.
18. Keen S. Empathy and the Novel. Oxford: Oxford University, 2007, 242.
19. Kidd D. C., Castano E. Reading literary fiction improves theory of mind. Science, 2013, 342(6156): 377–380. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1239918
20. Mayer J. D., Salovey P. What is emotional intelligence? Emotional intelligence: Key readings on the Mayer and Salovey model, eds. Salovey P., Brackett M. A., Mayer J. D. Port Chester, New York: Dude Publishing, 2004, 29–59.
21. Petrides K. V., Furnham A., Mavroveli S. Trait emotional intelligence: Moving forward in the field of EI. The Science of Emotional Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns, eds. Matthews G., Zeidner M., Roberts R. D. New York: Oxford University, 2007, chapt. 6, 151–166. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181890.003.0006
22. Wolf M. Reader, come home: The reading brain in a digital world. New York: Harper, 2018, 288.
