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Formation of intercultural competencies in language classes at the university

Author(s): Nursaule Meіirbek,Marina Shingareva,Valentina Narozhnaya,Saule Kozhakhmetova,Lyazzat Kanayeva,Ainur Zhorabekova / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2022

This research aimed to study and design the formation of intercultural competencies in language education classes at the university. The quantitative research method was used. The research was carried out in the spring term of 2021–2022. 198 volunteer students who continue their education in schools participated in the research and 4 weeks of online training were given to the students. The ‘language and proficiency’ measurement tool developed by the researchers and compiled by experts in the field was used in this study. The measurement tool was delivered to the students online and then collected. The analysis of the data was made by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences programme, frequency analysis and t-test; the results are added to the research in the form of tables. According to the results obtained, it was concluded that students' proficiency in language education classes and their intercultural status were high. While this situation was determined as good for education, it was concluded that it was used to reflect the distance education systems in the course.

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Keele omandamise, õppijakeele ja õppijakeele korpuste konverents

Author(s): Annekatrin Kaivapalu / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 01/2013

Report on the conference “Learner Language, Learner Corpora” held at University of Oulu from 5th to 6th October 2012.

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Meeting the needs of practitioners through research and training in CLIL times

Author(s): Lilly E. Escobar Artola / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The widespread implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) across school settings in Europe as an innovative and effective means of improving Foreign Language learning and teaching, has triggered a profusion of academic research on its tenets and rewards. The focus has mainly centered on theoretical discussions of CLIL´s ins and outs but there have also been empirical studies on key players’ views regarding its efficacy. A consistent outcome of the latter has been the call made by CLIL practitioners (the classroom teachers) for more guidance in the practical application of this approach. However, not much attention has been paid to this key issue which should concern researchers and teacher educators from CLIL-supporting contexts. The goal of this study is to encourage a shift of focus from the theoretically-based discussion of this approach to one centered on its practical application. This study is a discussion paper that intends to encourage discussion and research on teacher training to better tackle the methodological concerns of those teachers in CLIL practice.

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L’Italiano come L3 di studenti universitari rumeni: transfer dall’inglese e effetto di psychotypology

Author(s): Ruben Benatti / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2022

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how Romanian university students learn Italian as a third language. L3 acquisition is a relatively recent field of study since acquisitional linguistics has often paid little attention to the influence of other languages known by students. Although Romanian learners can rely heavily on their L1, which is typologically close to Italian, English and other languages still have a strong influence. Various studies (Safont and Portoles, 2015; Cenoz, 2013) have shown both the differences in the acquisition of L2 and L3, and the advantages of bilinguals compared to monolinguals in learning a language. In this paper, in particular, we will consider the transfer from English (and possibly from other languages) to Italian both from the perspective of error analysis, and the concept of psychotypology (Kellerman, 1983). This term indicates how the learner perceives the typological difference between L1 and L2. Kellerman considers it one of the main factors in the phenomenon of linguistic transfer and the definition of the concept of transferability. Consequently, this paper will attempt both to highlight the most frequent errors of Romanian learners that can be ascribed to the interference of English most of all and possibly other languages, and, via questionnaire, the influence of the effect of psychotypology in assessing how much the mindful perception of a learner can influence the transfer phenomenon.

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Çift Dillilik Bağlamında Suriyeli Mülteci Öğrenciler ve Kilis Ġli Örneği

Author(s): Hüseyin DOĞRAMACIOĞLU / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2022

Kilis is a frontier city with a history dating back thousands of years and located at the junction of different cultural and demographic structures. This city has a rich cultural structure as it is located at the intersection of various cultures. However, in the last ten years, different cultures and generations have begun to be seen here, as refugees who have escaped from the turmoil in Syria and sought refuge in our country have settled in Kilis. Refugees who immigrated to Kilis and whose mother tongue is mostly Arabic, interacted with Kilis culture when they encountered it. This interaction emerged mostly on the basis of language. After these people settled in Kilis, the children born here were educated at schools as bilingual students who could speak both Turkish and Arabic fluently. While these students were given education in different places at first, they continued to study in the same classes with the Turkish population in recent years. Thus, it was observed that cultural interaction accelerated and bilingual individuals increased. This generation can be characterized as individuals who both know and live the Turkish language and culture, know the Arab civilization and know Arabic very well because it is their mother tongue.

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Der Einsatz von digitalen Medien und Kompetenzen im fachbezogenen Fremdsprachenunterricht für Ingenieure

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Der Einsatz von digitalen Medien und Kompetenzen im fachbezogenen Fremdsprachenunterricht für Ingenieure

Author(s): Bogdana Cristina Laura Nedelcu / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2022

This paper presents several advantages and aspects of digital teaching techniques applied to the specialized language classes for engineers, as well as a few different modern teaching and learning methods which are meant to help the students use their knowledge of foreign languages effectively in their careers. Since in the modern society people find it more and more difficult to communicate directly and since they would rather keep in touch by using the digital means of communication, engineers also need to possess computer skills. In the field of technological sciences these skills are of utmost importance because engineers, technicians and managers must always be prepared to convey precise written and oral indications and counsels to help the workers understand how to build and maintain different and highly complex devices and machines by constantly checking if they work properly and if they follow the elaborate safety and maintenance procedures. This is the reason why these specific communication and computer skills and modern teaching methods should be acquired and practiced during the foreign language for specific purposes courses and seminars and adapted to the actual future professional activities of the students.

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Semiotic analysis of cultural representations in Iranian English textbooks

Author(s): Parvin Safari,Mohammad Razagh Pourhashemi / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

The Peircean semiotic approach suggests a non-linear and dynamic view of culture to examine it through signs, sign systems and meaning-making processes. This approach emphasises that images, texts and tasks are considered semiotic resources, generating cultural meanings through semiotic processes. This study aims to reveal the concept of culture in a dynamic manner concerning the semiotic potential embedded in the Iranian EFL textbooks used in junior high schools from the perspective of a semiotic framework. Semiotic analysis showed that cultural meaning-making is directed through guided semiosis, hampering students’ exploration of cultural potential meanings, cultural reflection, understanding and awareness. The denotational and the indexical relationship between texts and images also does not foster students’ intercultural understanding of living and maintaining in a global community, and hence, teachers need to move towards the symbolic aspect of texts and images through unguided semiosis to develop students’ cultural understanding of self and others.

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Translation-based task in an ESP classroom: Tlemcen University as a case study

Author(s): Amaria Fehaima / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

Integrating translation in English for specific purposes (ESP) teaching and learning is a crucial issue since the last decade of the 20th century. This paper aims to analyse the role of translation as a helpful tool for ESP classes on the use of translation in ESP teaching and learning. Therefore, a case study is employed to describe the necessity of using translation in ESP classes, especially, for third-year computer science students at the University of Tlemcen. A mixed method was used; a questionnaire was administered to ESP teachers in the Department of Science and Technology, and classroom observation on third-year students of computer science was conducted. The results revealed that computer sciences students at the University of Tlemcen faced various hindrances when dealing with professional resources which are mainly at the level of content due to the nature of ESP courses they were exposed to during their studies.

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Emakeele seltsis

Author(s): Killu Paldrok / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 11/2014

28. märtsil k.a Tartus toimunud Emakeele Seltsi aastakoosolekul esitas akadeemilise ettekande „Laps, keel ja grammatika ehk mis on eesti keele omandamises erilist” Reili Argus. Laps hakkab keelelisi kategooriaid, mis keeliti erinevad, ehitama kognitiivsetele kategooriatele. On suhteid, mida mõni keel väljendab grammatikaga, teine leksikaga (nt aspekt, objektide kategoriseerimine omaduste kaudu), mõnes keeles on mõne kategooria väljendamine kohustuslik, mõnes vabatahtlik (nt evidentsiaalsus on eesti keeles valikuline, aga korea ja türgi keeles kohustuslik). Sellest tulenevad erinevused, eelkõige omandamise järjekorras. Ka moodustusmehhanismide produktiivsus varieerub keeliti. Mis on nii produktiivne kui ka sage, omandatakse esmajärjekorras. Esineja tõi arvukaid näiteid kolme eesti lapse keelematerjali põhjal. Mida rikkamad on keele morfoloogilised paradigmad, seda varem omandatakse morfoloogia, näiteks on see nii eesti keeles. Produktiivsuse aste võib erineda ka keele sees. Nii on näiteks eesti keeles produktiivne liitmine, eriti nimisõnade puhul; kausatiivliitega tuletamine on mingil määral produktiivne, aga tuletatud kausatiivid ei ole kuigi sagedased; produktiivne on evidentsiaalsuse väljendusvahenditest kaudse kõneviisi vormide moodustamine, kuid nende kasutamine on harv.

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Employing alternative constructive methods of teaching English

Author(s): Viorica Ichim / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

This paper zeros in on the use of effective teaching and learning strategies. Traditional forms of teaching are changing rapidly with the advancement of technology. Technological innovations have begun to play a more important role in language teaching and learning, changing the presentation and perception of educational material. Thanks to these trends, the teaching process is becoming more focused on the real needs of students. There are many qualitative methods of English language teaching, but it is important to use the ones that will act as a stimulus to students’ lateral thinking development, encourage their creativity and improve their learning ability. The utilization of constructive methods of knowledge acquirement and sharing encourages students to collaborate, i.e., they study English with pleasure and maximum comfort, and make good progress. The article also mentions the role of the teacher in the educational process, which can be successful only if she/he appropriately understands the students’ learning capacity and interests and utilizes a multimedia approach to teaching.

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CARACTÉRISTIQUES LINGUISTIQUES ET TERMINOLOGIE SPÉCIFIQUE AU DOMAINE DES VOITURES ÉLECTRIQUES

Author(s): Ana-Marina Tomescu / Language(s): French Issue: 21/2022

In this article, we shall focus on the difficulties encountered by the students in Applied Modern Languages during their courses of Specialized Languages or Specialized Translation, when the discourse of the specialized fields becomes an object of study. We will examine the use of certain grammatical categories and consider some of the aspects that regard terminological multiplication in a corpus of research articles from the field of electric cars. Our aim is to demonstrate that, as in all the specialized languages, the particularities in the use of the more or less technical terminology related to electric cars depends on the communicative context and the relation between the transmitter (the author of the article) and the receiver (the reader).

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UTILIZAREA INDICELUI UBR ÎN ANALIZA DIVERSITĂȚII SINTACTICE A INTERLIMBII STUDENȚILOR CARE ÎNVAȚĂ RLS

Author(s): Mariana-Diana Câșlaru,Elena Mihaela Andrei / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2022

The analysis of the interlanguage, seen as a continuum of transitional language systems proper to the student learning a foreign language, needs a methodology that goes beyond the tight space of the conformity with the norm of the target language. In this paper, we propose a methodology for describing the interlanguage, using the UBR (unique bigram ratio) index by which we can calculate the syntactic diversity of a written production, more precisely the predictability of the word sequences. Some of the results of pretesting this methodology will be presented in this paper.

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ENSEIGNEMENT DES LANGUES MODERNES. UTILISATION DE LA TECHNOLOGIE MULTIMÉDIA DANS LE PROCESSUS D’ENSEIGNEMENT: ENSEIGNEMENT ET APPRENTISSAGE DES LANGUES ÉTRANGÈRES

Author(s): Ivana Ivanić / Language(s): French Issue: 4/2022

The E-learning system can replace "face-to-face" courses in teaching and learning foreign languages. The didactic materials – textbooks, presentation materials, etc. presented by teachers in the context of the E-learning training program are well organized, prepared and effective. It is easier to learn another language nowadays, with the appearance of applications. We can facilitate the improvement of oral communication skills and not just the acquisition of grammar and vocabulary knowledge. Teachers use different platforms (E-learning) including in face-to-face courses as a complementary solution (for the projection of a video document, for completing a questionnaire, etc.) in the process of teaching foreign languages.

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Väitekiri eesti keele omandamisest ja konstruktsioonidest

Author(s): Renate Pajusalu / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 11/2018

Review of: Mare Kitsnik. Iga asi omal ajal: eesti keele B1- ja B2-taseme verbikonstruktsioonid keeleoskuse arengu näitajana. (Humanitaarteaduste dissertatsioonid 43.) Tallinn: Tallinna Ülikool, 2018. 261 lk.

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Assessing the Acceptance of Virtual Classes Among Arabic Language Student Teachers During and Beyond Covid-19

Author(s): Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Subaie / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

The aim was to investigate and assess the acceptance of virtual classes among Arabic language student teachers during and beyond covid-19. Quantitative research is carried out with the aim to assess the acceptance of virtual classes among Arabic language student teachers during and beyond covid-19. It uses a survey-based methodology to obtain data from the respondents. An online questionnaire was used to collect data via Facebook and WhatsApp groups. 450 questionnaire responses were received. They were 300 males (66.6%), and 150 females (33.4%). Results indicated that the student behavioral intention to use educational technology is positively affected by perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use. PU, PEOU yielded a coefficient of multiple regression (R) of 0. 450 and a multiple correlation square of 0. 435. This shows that 43.5% of the total variance in student behavioral intention to use educational technology is accounted for by the combination of PU, PEOU. Efforts to integrate educational technology into teacher education and Arabic language student teachers education programs are necessary.

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AN OVERVIEW OF AN ELECTIVE COURSE ON MEDICAL HUMANITIES

Author(s): Laura Ioana Leon / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

We still lack a tradition of courses on medical humanities designed for medical students, though medical schools in the United States or Western Europe included such courses in their academic curricula more than half a century ago. Such courses have proven their effectiveness in the training of a future doctor, providing them with better abilities to communicate, observe and develop empathy towards the patient. This paper wants to address the problem of the need to deliver such courses that would be even more welcome if all the interdisciplinary topics would gather to give their worthy opinion and perspective on the problem of medical humanities. Such an attempt is still far from being accomplished; therefore, the paper is going to present an attempt to develop an elective course devoted to the topic of medical humanities. With foreign language teachers in charge, such a course could only offer a limited perspective, using fiction as a tool to deal with the students’ cultural training, development of communication skills and understanding of the role of storytelling in medicine. The paper is going to present some examples that can be used in such an elective course on medical humanities in order to reach the above-mentioned goals.

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Ka postizanju i održanju vitalnosti modela učenja stranog jezika

Author(s): Jelena Ilić Plauc / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 17/2021

Review of: Mirjana Matea Kovač, Govorna fluentnost u stranome jeziku, Sveučilište u Splitu, Filozofski fakultet, Split, 2020.

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ОБРАЗОВНА ЈЕЗИЧКА ПОЛИТИКА РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРПСКЕ У ДОМЕНУ НАСТАВЕ СТРАНИХ ЈЕЗИКА

Author(s): Sanja R. Milićević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 26/2022

This paper analyses foreign language teaching in the education system of the Republic of Srpska relative to the percent distribution of frequency of individual languages. With primary education being the first and obligatory level of education at which foreign languages are taught, the paper examines the connection between language education policy at the primary education level, social processes and the international position of foreign languages studied in the Republic of Srpska. Available data are compared with the rankings of world languages in terms of their global influence. Similarities and differences between learning outcomes for individual foreign languages after completing primary education are also analysed. The paper points to the basic problems of the language education policy in the Republic of Srpska in relation to foreign language teaching, and recommends systematic collection and analysis of relevant data as the first step in dealing with the issues discussed.

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LA CONCEPTION DIDACTIQUE DES PROJETS DANS LA MÉTHODE #LA CLASSE A2

Author(s): Jovica M. Mikić / Language(s): French Issue: 26/2022

U ovom članku ispituje se koncepcija projekata u udžbeničkom kompletu ♯La Classe A2, namenjenom nastavi i učenju francuskog kao stranog jezika na srednjoškolskom uzrastu. Nakon što je izdvojeno osam kriterijuma za analizu, istraživanje je obuhvatilo sledeća tri aspekta: deklarativne stavove autora o mestu i ulozi projekata u udžbeničkom kompletu; raspoređivanje rubrika posvećenih projektima, kao i sadržaj datih rubrika, u osnovnoj knjizi za učenika i u priručniku za nastavnika; detaljnu razradu didaktičko-metodološkog postupka u okviru jedne nastavne celine, to jest jednog od ukupno šest projekata. Posebna pažnja posvećena osmišljavanju projekata potvrđena je na osnovu odlika nekoliko strukturno-funkcionalnih komponenti: eksplicitno navođenje referentnih dokumenata u predgovoru; istaknuto mesto u tabelarnom pregledu sadržaja; formulisanje naslova nastavnih celina i lekcija: predstavljanje projekta na uvodnoj strani nastavne celine; dodatni saveti i objašnjenja u priručniku za nastavnika. U ovom udžbeničkom kompletu, ustanovljena je dosledna primena načela akcione perspektive, prema kojoj jezičke aktivnosti poprimaju pravi smisao tokom realizacije kontekstualizovanih i autentičnih zadataka.

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Simultan-bilingualer Pluralerwerb von Deutsch und Kroatisch

Author(s): Marina Čamber,Wolfgang U. Dressler / Language(s): German Issue: 31/2022

This paper deals with the acquisition of plural forms in German and Croatian by simultaneously bilingual children growing up in Vienna. At the age of 3 and 4, the children were tested at home and in their kindergarten on four different occasions (3, 12, 3 and 12 months apart) in order to examine their development of plural forms using a mixed-method approach, i.e. formal plural tests, spontaneous speech recordings, and a semi-spontaneous picture story. The results are related to monolingual and successive-bilingual data. The data gained from the experiment suggests that there is a mutual influence between the two languages in the production of plural forms.

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