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In hardly any other region of the world the linguistic and ethnical variety is as large as in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia. There, where six official languages apply and people belonging to national minorities make up one third of the population, radio announcers and editors have to face special challenges.
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Anyone, at any time, at any location? With anybody for any reason? Faster than you think, you could find yourself in the middle of nowhere. More than ever before information society demands media competence.
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Need a better way to conquer a gaping distance than flying? Why not build a bridge? These days the proverbial waxen wings are up in the air and safer ways are to be used. D@dalos organisation abandons avionics and becomes a bridge architect to close the online knowledge gap between Central and South East Europe.
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The World Wide Web offers a lot of options and today even your homeland is readily just a mouse click away, no matter where you live. Two young men who, due to the war in Yugoslavia, started a new life in the West describe how it is possible to continue contact with their home country in order not to lose their roots.
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Andreas Rudas, Head of K&K, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) media group’s organisation for all its activities in South East Europe, on foreign investent, corporate responsability and democracy.
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The end of Milosevic era liberated the media market in Serbia, but the failure to adopt new media laws has created a chaotic situation that now threatens press freedom and media development in Serbia.
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Serbia’s media landscape is characterised by its arbitrariness; political control over broadcasting; insufficient reforms in broadcasting; media policy and regulation.The legal framework is still incomplete.
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The paper deals with the peculiarities of ESP learning motivation. The meaning of motivation and three main approaches to motivational psychology: expectancy-value theory, goal-directed theory and the self-determination theory are presented, two distinct orientations for learning a language: integrative and instrumental are described in the paper. The importance of needs analysis to ESP learning is stressed and the main conditions (interest in the topic and activity; relevance to the students'lives; expectancy of success and feelings of being in control and satisfaction in the outcome) for motivation are described. The skills that ESP learners need to develop are specified. The description of approaches to motivational psychology is proposed, as motivation is of great significance in foreign language learning.
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The paper deals with the structure of foreign languages teaching at higher non – linguistic school complex methods and the problems of its formation. It supposed that teaching means should correspond to the teaching stage requirements and the students studying capabilities. Two teaching stages at a non – linguistic higher school and the usable means are discussed in the paper. Rational teaching subjects selects selection, their methodical organization and means are stressed. The adequate and sufficient number of linguistic abilities developing exercises should be prepared for different fields of linguistic activities. The presented paper should be of practical importance for the work with the students.
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The article deals with some of the results of the extensive research carried out at VGTU. The authors give the overview of the concept of metacognition, its constituent parts, as well as suggest the detailed analysis of the processed data. The main research hypothesis that students mastered their metacognitive strategy and tactics in the learning process usually achieve better results is proved statistically. One of the conclusions made is that current needs (social, cultural, technological changes in the society) towards foreign language learning do not require short-term knowledge. Rather they require flexibility and higher order thinking skills which are a part of metacognition.
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In diesem Artikel geht es um Deutschunterricht für eine bestimmte Zielgruppe. Berufsbezogener Fremdsprachenunterricht ist in der Regel Unterricht mit Jugendlichen, die in der beruflichen Bildung kaum fachliche Kenntnisse haben. Deshalb besteht die Vorbereitung der Lernenden auf die lexikalischen Anforderungen eines Berufes darin, ihnen Techniken zu vermitteln, mit deren Hilfe sie neuen Wortschatz selbständig verstehen, lernen und behalten können. Hier spricht man auch über die Textarbeit, die die text-didaktischen Mittel der stufenweisen Annäherung vom globalen zum detaillierten Verstehen nutzt.Besonderheiten fachsprachlicher Texte in Inhalt, Wortschatz und Grammatik werden darüber hinaus gezielt bewusst gemacht. Was die Grammatikarbeit betrifft, so müssen grammatische Strukturen erkannt und entschlüsselt, aber nicht in jedem Fall produziert werden. Wenn sie wiedergegeben werden, so muss man sie in eigenen Worten und mit einfacheren grammatischen Strukturen wiedergeben.
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The European Board documents [6] approved by the Ministry of Education [7, 8] orient the European countries, teachers to ensure a very good, masterful acquisition of three languages (Vantage B2). This attitude is related to an individual’s acquired level of the rational silent reading. The author has been interested in the problem of rational silent reading for 35 years. In the empirical research and experiments there took part more than 500 pupils, students, teachers, employees of different spheres, secondary schools graduates. From the point of view of rational silent reading Lithuania is significantly lagging behind other countries. There are many reasons for that. In order to highlight them there has been briefly studied the content of the rational silent reading according to B2 level; touched on the most significant dimensions of this competency, reviewed the consistent patterns and content of the teaching and learning process of the rational silent reading as well as the norms of such reading in Lithuanian, English, Russian, French. Some research results are presented. At the end there has been given the whole mosaic of recommendations, based on the research, different glottoeducological, psychological, psycholinguistic, physiological, linguistic, etc literature. The aim of the article is to invite teachers, scientists to participate actively in this problem solution under the new Lithuanian conditions.
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In this article the problem of active and passive minimum of grammar is analysed alongside with the questions relevant to this problem: the aspects of selection of grammar material, its presentation, teaching, consolidation and realization in communicational process. The author, while analysing students mistakes, states that the main criteria for selecting passive minimum of grammar must be the frequency of the subject and the possibilities of its usage in a definite text. The main factor for choosing active grammar minimum is communicative value of grammar. In the article it has been stated that different grammar exercises are needed for receptive and reproductive learning. The possibilities of grammar material presentation, consolidation and realization in a concrete situation are also touched on in the article.
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The article deals with some difficulties, concerning word-building and similar phenomena in French, such as composition, conversion transfer. Written speciality texts are investigated as they convey scientific ideas in the best way. Differently from the difficulties in syntax and semantics the lexical word-building is not a big trouble and therefore not a subject dealt with by linguists, still we can not neglect the changes of meanings of word-building and affixes, new lexical units, carrying out other semantic and syntactic functions.
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The paper describes the essential features of a connected text helping to raise learners’ awareness of its structure and organization and improve their skills of reading comprehension. Classroom applications of various approaches to handling texts and text-based activities are also discussed and their main advantages and disadvantages are outlined.Tasks based on text transformation and reconstruction found in the course books of English for students of computing and information technology are analysed and their types are determined. The efficiency of the tasks is determined by considering the experience of the authors gained in using text-based assignments provided in these course books with the students of the above specialities. Some problems encountered in classroom application of the considered text-based tasks are also outlined.
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The author researches the problems of textual competence and especially the reflexive constructions in the texts of French speciality. It was established that there exists some difference in the usage of reflective verbs in the French and the Lithuanian language especially in the field of passive voice and a wider semantics of modal and aspect verbs and that raises not a fen problems of effective text reading problems.
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