Slovenská morfológia na pozadí rumunčiny
The Slovak Morphology as against Romanian

From the Contrastive Description of the Two Languages to a Computer-Processed Textbook of Slovak as a Foreign Language

Summary/Abstract: Teaching Slovak as a foreign language is certain to be a challenging experience when it comes to students whose non-Slavic origin mother tongue is forced to adjust and react to a completely different linguistic logic. Conceiving textbooks and other teaching materials for specific groups of students and forcing their mother tongue logic into new linguistic paradigms based on automatically processed correspondences between different declension models is downright futuristic. Based on an exhaustive contrastive analysis of both students' mother tongue and Slovak in the attempt to identify the common basis for remodeling students' L1 specific cognitive models, the linguist is challenged to generate a multilevel-structure content in an automated form in accordance with students' expectations and friendly enough for them to feel motivated to react to the new customized learning models. Whether artificial intelligence is capable of organizing the teaching content in various combinations according to students' educational profile and mother tongue is still a matter of deep research and teaching experiments. If artificial intelligence may compete with the human brain, its performance is convincingly demonstrated by already existing automatic translation software. Since the automatic translation software is increasingly better and effective, in our opinion, the next step for the future of foreign language learning should aim at conceiving foreign language textbooks based on automatic language cognitive model matching, meant to enable adaptive and reactive mediation of the teaching content.

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