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Multilingualism as an Edge

Author(s): Larissa Aronin,Vasilis Politis / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

The article presents a philosophical conceptualization of multilingualism. Philosophy’s general task is to subject human experience to reflective scrutiny and the experience of present day society has changed drastically. Multilingualism, as the vehicle of a new linguistic dispensation, plays a central role in it. We apply the metaphor ‘edge’ to explore the way multiple languages are deployed in, and intensively shape, the postmodern world. We also demonstrate how multilingualism is an edge, not only metaphorically, but involving true and real boundaries of various kinds, and all of them are essential for its nature.

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Z historii badań nad zawartością materiału leksykalnego dla potrzeb nauczania języka rosyjskiego jako obcego

Author(s): Joanna Ewa Daniel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 117/2007

The article touches upon the history of the rationalization of the lexis in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The presumption that in the initial stage of teaching a language it is necessary to select the lexis in the specified way has had a very long history. However, the rules how to select the lexis has changed many times over years. In the 50’s of the 20th century one of the main scientific criteria was the frequency of the word usage. Since then the research over the creation of the lexical minimum (basic word list) has been conducted in two directions. The first one focused on working out frequency dictionaries whereas the other centered on the creation of the lexical minimum for the primary schools. It is essential to emphasize that every lexical minimum should be created properly with regard to the aims and the syllabus of many learners and taking into account word frequency but first and foremost it ought to reflect the system of the Russian language.

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WOBEC POLSKOŚCI. Z DOŚWIADCZENIA NAUCZYCIELA JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO JAKO OBCEGO

Author(s): Grażyna Balkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 21/2014

The study is concerned with the idea of polishness as a bisemic concept. It reveals the complexity of references connected with this idea, amongst the teachers as well as amongst the students of PAFL (Polish as Foreign Language) courses who have Polish origins. The article also seeks to define the factors influencing the understanding of polishness by the PAFL teacher and young Poles from the East. The teacher’s concept of polishness is formed by years of humanistic studies. Still, social changes and tasks set by the glottodidactic course confront that concept with the one formed in different social groups, like PAFL students. Sociological investigations indicate that the real attitude of Poles to their cultural heritage differs from the one created by mass media. The criteria of polishness set by the young generation of Poles (born in Poland), formed the basis of a questionnaire aimed to analyze the attitude of PAFL students. The results show that the majority of students officially belong to the Polish society, with 54% emotionally identifying themselves with it (and 52% with the Roman Catholic faith), while the identity of the rest cannot be unequivocally described. 88% of them had been learning Polish before, and 96% declare familiarity with Polish customs, while only 25% practice them. The majority (66%) would like to stay in Poland after having graduated, and none of them opposes to this idea.

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Verb Choice In Medical Research Articles (ESP)

Author(s): Ilina Doykova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The corpus-based analysis of high frequency verbs used in research articles aims at establishing the lexical core, native and non-native researchers need for publishing in medicine. The verbs, extracted from two self-compiled corpora are structured as per the established format of the research article genre. The findings showed that in the Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion sections there is great variation in the use of verbs, related to data observation, presentation, and description. Areas of difference in evaluative language and the preferred lexical structures in reporting scientific results are indicated. The predicative adjective construction is identified as a frequent strong verb substitute in the non-native scientific writing. Specific verb lists form a valuable source for the creation of teaching materials for university and PhD students.

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Языковая игра в городском пространстве, или как повысить мотивацию студентов к изучению языка?

Author(s): Joanna Darda-Gramatyka,Gabriela Sitkiewicz (Szewczyk) / Language(s): Russian Issue: 161/2018

This article is a summary of a language urban game entitled Following the Russian traces in Cracow. There were 80 participants in the game and 41 of them filled out a voluntary questionnaire providing feedback. The purpose of the questionnaire was to examine to what extent students were aware of the group processes they partici¬pated in and how those processes affected their motivation to learn a foreign lan¬guage. Our research results have shown that the group members’ interactions are directly related to the students’ motivation to achieve better results. The awareness of the group processes’ impact on an individual is crucial as skilful management of these processes can be used while planning work strategies with student groups in order to increase their effectiveness in achieving the set goals. Creation of the right space for learning is well supported by exercises using elements of competition, fun or game mechanics. The influence exerted by a group on an individual and facili¬tation are not new issues, however, they are very timely matters and still require extensive research.

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Особенности русского языка как yнаследованного в Германии

Author(s): Natalia Brüggemann / Language(s): Russian Issue: 162/2018

The purpose of the article is to give an outline of the main features of the Russian heritage language used by the second generation of immigrants in Germany with regard to particular teaching needs. The author presents such phenomena as attrition, incomplete acquisition, matter and pattern borrowing, the role of parents’ input etc. and develop several requirements meant for curricula for teaching in universities and for the conception of lessons particularly devoted to heritage speakers.

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Trójjęzyczność rosyjsko-ukraińsko-polska rosyjskojęzycznych Ukraińców mieszkających w Polsce

Author(s): Pavlo Levchuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 162/2018

The following article presents the linguistic situation of russophone Ukrainians after migrating to Poland. Despite using Russian language as their first language the respondents are not culturally attached to Russia in any way and treat their first language as a means of communication. After coming to Poland, Ukrainian language loses its communicative values, which are gained by Polish instead.

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A new beginning? A bibliometric analysis of L2 vocabulary research in 1985

Author(s): Paul Meara / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

This paper uses a co-citation analysis to examine the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition that was published in 1985. This year seems to mark a kind of transition in the field. Unlike the earlier years analysed in this series of papers, 1985 shows signs of a coherent L2 vocabulary research front developing. The number of papers that qualify for inclusion is much greater than in previous years, and the analysis suggests that recognizable research themes are beginning to be clearly articulated.

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Proces complex de evaluare în contextul intervenției timpurii

Author(s): Oana-Maria ȘOMFELEAN / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2018

This article focuses on the importance of early intervention as far as language development.This paper proposes an approach which focuses on the importance of the early assessment of toddlers’ language skills development in order to identify possible delays or disorders.High quality early assessment and intervention services can change a child’s developmental trajectory and improve outcomes for children, families, and communities

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Specificul dezvoltării abilităților de comunicare pragmatică în contextul dizabilității intelectuale

Author(s): Nona Bădescu-Fetche / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2018

This article presents a case study regarding Down syndrome and the difficulties that appear due to pragmatic communication disorder in the day to day life of persons with Down syndrome. Having difficulties in the area of pragmatic communication suggests the lack of functional communication, with impact on an individuals social life, human interractions, establishing and maintaining significant relationships, along with having difficulties in understanding speech, waiting for one`s turn, listening, starting, maintaining or ending a conversation.Through specific speech therapy interventions, we can see in this case study how pragmatic communication can be trained by focusing on communication skills, articulation and pronuntiation exercises, with significant impact on the individuals self-esteem issues and the diminuation of dezadaptative behaviours characteristic to Down Syndrom

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The Graduation Paper in Translation Studies

Author(s): Iulia Bobăilă,Manuela Mihăescu,Alina Pelea / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Critical thinking skills play a vital role in a knowledge society and have a direct influence on the quality of teaching and learning. We aim at highlighting the way in which the graduation paper in Translation Studies can become an excellent opportunity to encourage students to test the applicability of key concepts from this field and to tackle research systematically. Based on our experience of supervising graduation papers on translation studies-related topics, we have identified students’ typical approaches and recurring difficulties. This allows us to suggest possible solutions for the problems encountered, depending on each stage of the process. Our purpose as supervisors is to endow students with the cognitive flexibility they need in order to draw up an adequate research plan, use translation assessment criteria creatively and hone their critical skills for future real-life situations.

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Academic Teaching in Translation and Interpreting in Russia: Student Expectations and Market Reality

Author(s): Evgeniya Malenova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for translator and interpreter competence in an ever-changing professional environment and provide recommendations to improve academic teaching in translation and interpreting in Russian universities in order to meet the needs of the language industry. To this end, the author discusses the results of three surveys carried out in 2017-2018. In the first survey, chief executives and vendor managers of major Russian translation companies share their experience of hiring university graduates. In the second survey, young professionals entering the Russian translation and interpreting market reflect on their university experience versus the expectations they had when enrolling in translation and interpreting programs. In the third survey, teachers of translation and interpreting from Russian universities reflect on existing academic programs in translation and interpreting.

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Education in Localization: How language service providers benefit from educational partnerships

Author(s): Carreen Schroeder / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The purpose of the research was to examine whether or not partnerships between language services organizations and institutions of higher education have a positive impact on students, the educational institutions, partnering companies, and on the language services industry as a whole. We interviewed key educational institutions within the United States as well as a select few in Europe who closely partner with organizations within the language services sector to determine whether or not their partnering experiences had a positive effect on student enrolment, student participation, post-graduate success, and appropriate job placement within the language services industry. Likewise, we interviewed leaders in the language services industry to better understand whether or not they found the partnerships to be beneficial for their own organization, and for the industry as a whole. With regard to the key players we researched, all seemed to be in favor of partnerships, and all shared tangible reasons why these partnerships are a win for all involved. Although our research seems to indicate that – at least at present – there are only a limited number of these partnerships around the globe, there is a growing interest and desire for this number to grow in the years ahead.

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Mail – analiza wypowiedzi pisemnej uczniów szkoły ponadgimnazjalnej

Author(s): Anna Kucharska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 10/2018

Writing a text is a complex task that can pose many problems for students. At the beginning of the article we ask a research question if a student that has already acquired a certain level of lexical and grammatical competence is able to write a mail (an utterance that respects the discourse rules) on the basis of input of an exemplary document. Next we want to verify an impact of exercises that aim to improve the abilities necessary to write a mail. The comparative and qualitative analysis should help to draw conclusions that allow to answer the research questions.

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Strategii de dezvoltare fonetico-fonologică în contextul dizabilității intelectuale.

Author(s): Simona Rodica Gaie / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 1/2019

The article focuses on strategies for stimulating language development, using work strategies aimed at the development of phonetic phonological and phonological processing components in order to reduce the existing difficulties in the sphere of writing – reading in children with intellectual disabilities. The article presents, from a theoretical stand point, the intellectual disabilities and the particularities of psychological development – cognitive development – adaptive behavior and the specificity of the development of language in the context of intellectual disability, with emphasis on the phonetic – phonological side and the phonological processing of children with intellectual disability. By this it is delineated and highlighted the existing problems, namely the necessity of advancing phonetic phonological development strategies and the central objective of the paper, to emphasize the importance of the phonological processing skills in the case of children with intellectual disability, having as secondary objectives the training of the ability of phonological processing at the level of spontaneous and reflected speech, phonematic differentiation, phonematic perception, phonematic analysis, rhythmic pronunciation education.

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Developing efficient foreign language classroom environment for older adult learners

Author(s): Agata Słowik / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Aim: The aim of the research is to present which elements related to teaching English to older adult learners have the greatest influence on creating a propitious and friendly learning environment. In order to achieve this firstly, I wish to present older adults’ observations regarding problems encountered in the classroom environment related to the lack of teaching materials, mixed age and ability groups or being discriminated against by fellow students and teachers. Secondly, I would like to propose some solutions to improve the efficiency of both students and teachers in the classroom environment. Methods: The subjects of the study were 40 older adult learners of English who attended the classes at the University of the Third Age in Wrocław. In the study the participants were asked to choose the answers which, according to them, have the greatest influence on their learning the foreign language in later life. The participants also wrote additional comments that explained their choices. The analysis was qualitative in nature. Results: The analysis shows that teachers (n=35) and teaching materials (n=31) are considered to be the two most important factors in learning a language in later life. The third most vital factor in creating a good classroom environment is related to other students (n=17). The subjects’ comments, however, point to numerous problems encountered in the aforementioned areas that affect the process of foreign language learning in later life. Conclusions: Older adult learners’ needs, abilities and learning preferences should be taken into account while designing language courses as, according to the subjects of the study, at present it is not the case. Moreover, there should be more awareness on behalf of the teachers as to the age-related changes that make certain tasks difficult and the learning environment unnecessarily hostile.

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The Negative Structures Acquired by Lithuanian Children in Early Childhood

Author(s): Birutė Kazlauskienė / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2003

This paper is a study in the domains of developmental psycholinguistics and lexical competence of Lithuanian children as first language learners. In the research that follows the author has attempted to see whether and how the negative structures develop and mature in very young children as they learn their native language as well as to set up rules for changes in each stage. The data were processed by means of the generative, conversational and comparative methods of analysis.

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TÖMER Türkçe Öğretim Programları Okuma Kazanımlarının Bilişsel Stratejiler Açısından İncelenmesi

Author(s): Mustafa Ulutaş,Mehmet Kara / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2019

Nowadays, the first quarter of the 21st century, the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language is mostly carried out by Turkish Teaching Centers, which are established within the universities and their numbers are increasing every day. These centers carry out the language teaching process through the books they prepared or obtained from other centers. The books used in the area of teaching Turkish as a foreign language should be prepared within a certain curriculum. Unfortunately, it is known that only a few of the existing Turkish Teaching Centers have developed their own curriculums by using the common framework. Curriculum acquisitions should ensure that language learners exhibit certain skills from the lowest to the highest. One of the most important sources that can be used to sort and classify the acquisitions from the simplest to the highest cognitive level is the Bloom Taxonomy. “Recall, comprehension, implementation, analysis, evaluation, creation” steps of this taxonomy, revised by Anderson and Krathwohl is considered important to express the acquisitions according to certain cognitive processes and to make the curriculum more functional. In this study, it is aimed to examine the reading acquisitions in Turkish curriculum as foreign language according to the revised Bloom Taxonomy. For this purpose, the reading acquisitions of Ankara University and Gazi University Turkish Teaching Center’s Turkish curriculum were examined by taking into account the cognitive processes of taxonomy. Based on the data obtained: It is seen that the reading acquisitions in the Turkish Language Curriculum as a Foreign Language of Ankara University indicate 6 cognitive process steps 91 times; and the reading acquisitions in the Turkish Language Curriculum as a Foreign Language of Gazi University indicate the same cognitive process steps 112 times in total. It was found that basic cognitive skills (remembering, understanding, implementation) had a weight of 72.53% in Ankara University curriculum; and in Gazi University curriculum, they had a weight of 69.64%. While both curriculums do not include reading acquisition for the level of creation, the percentage of high-level cognitive skills (analysis, evaluation, creation) is determined as 27.47% in the Ankara University curriculum; and in the Gazi University curriculum, it was determined as 30.36%.

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Dil Dizgesinde Eşdizimlilik: Öğretim Odaklı Dilbilimsel Betimleme Örneği

Author(s): Olena Kozan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2019

This study deals with the notion of collocation in the framework of foreign language teaching and translation training. The study shows that in Turkey collocations are mainly approached as formal structures. There are a few studies which describe collocations as the coherence among the concepts in the text. Since any of the approaches shed light on the problem of switching from the semantic patterns stored in the mental lexicon into lexical patterns in the language system, they are assumed to be unfruitful in the context of foreign language teaching and translation training. The article provides an example of an analysis in the framework of Melçuk & Jolkovski’s (1984) meaning↔text approach which describes the lexicalization of the semantic patterns through the notion of lexical function. The semantic pattern lexicalized in Russian language by the item “конфликт’ (conflict) is examined. Comparative linguistic study of the collocations is believed to be helpful in raising semantic awareness of the students toward the phenomenon.

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Kitap İncelemesi

Author(s): İsmail Yaman / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2019

The review of: Tuba Karataylı Zehir: İngilizce (Kullana)bilmek? Dil Öğrenmeyi Kolaylaştıran 115 Öğretici Öneri; Blackswan Publishing, 2012, 119, İsmail Yaman.

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