TAUTA IR KALBA: ŠIUOLAIKINIAI SOCIOLINGVISTINIO UGDYMO ASPEKTAI
Nation and Language: Modern Aspects of Socio-Linguistic Development

Publishing House: Kauno Technologijos Universitetas
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Frequency: irregular and other
Print ISSN: 2029-0497
Status: Later issues not available

• Issues/Articles
• Journal Information

• 2010

• Issue No. 04

• Year: 2010
• Volume:
• Number: 04

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WHY STANDARD SPOKEN LANGUAGE OF STUDENTS GETS POORER?

WHY STANDARD SPOKEN LANGUAGE OF STUDENTS GETS POORER?
(WHY STANDARD SPOKEN LANGUAGE OF STUDENTS GETS POORER?)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Nijolė Petniūnienė, Regina Bartkevičienė
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• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 7-13
• No. of Pages: 7
• Keywords: Globalization; language politics; national consciousness; value orientation; language varieties; standard spoken language; lexis; slang; dialect; synonym; barbarism; motivation.
• Summary/Abstract: The article is aimed at finding out how the standard spoken language of students is affected by the change of values which is characteristic for the end of 20th century and beginning of the 21st century. The article is based on the research carried out at the beginning of 2010. A part of research data is compared with the research data of 1998. Respondents of both researches are students of the Lithuanian University of Agriculture. Examples of their language will be used to find out if the language of children from countryside - students of countryside-related university – is still vivid, deep, voluble. The hypothesis that the standard spoken language of students gets poorer is raised. This hypothesis is proved by the researches. According to the obtained data, practical function of language gets more important and suppresses the power of aesthetic language. This results in poor vocabulary, lower amount of means of expression, more patterns. The goal of the article is to find out the reasons why standard spoken language of students of the Lithuanian University of Agriculture gets poorer and what are the possibilities to recover the image of this language and to improve its status. Vocabulary resources are investigated deeper. Based on survey data, we have selected and discussed the following main reasons of poorer standard spoken language of students: national language, as well as its varieties, is not a characteristic of professional qualification to employers; progress of opposition between the English and Lithuanian languages, which is a result of globalization, is disadvantageous for the Lithuanian language; influence of the Russian language, especially in spoken language; standardized teaching process.

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ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING CONDITIONS IN MOLDOVAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING CONDITIONS IN MOLDOVAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
(ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING CONDITIONS IN MOLDOVAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Marianna Fuciji
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 14-18
• No. of Pages: 5
• Keywords: Foreign language teaching; foreign language learning process; reforms; integration.
• Summary/Abstract: Republic of Moldova is known as a country in transition. Since early 1990’s reforms have touched many domains of socio-linguistic development, education included. After 1989 there was registered a radical change in the approach of foreign language teaching. The number of private and state Higher Education Institutions has significantly been increased throughout the republic. One of the greatest challenges in Moldova is providing sufficient foreign language education so as to meet the growing demand especially after a long period of times when foreign languages were seriously neglected. The major research problem is that the Moldovan government doesn’t invest so much in foreign language teaching in result this decreases the motivation of teachers involved in foreign language teaching process and students don’t get good learning conditions. The main goal of the given paper is to highlight the key reforms introduced in foreign language teaching in old and recently opened Higher Education Institutions of Moldova and to describe foreign language learning conditions which occurred after USSR collapse. Other objectives of the article under discussion are to determine the lacks foreign language teachers and learners in Moldova come across with while foreign language study and to offer some recommendations as how to improve the current situation of foreign language learning conditions in the local regional Universities situated in the South of Moldova which don’t have at their disposal any Language Laboratories equipped with Audio and Video materials where students could train their pronunciation. Computer assisted classes are also missing. The statistic results show that the demands for foreign languages are getting higher but teaching and learning conditions haven’t been improved so far especially in recently opened Universities. The methods used during the research are: employing theory, observation, description, statistic analysis, survey.

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IDENTITY AND LANGUAGES – RESULTS OF A LOCAL RESEARCH

IDENTITY AND LANGUAGES – RESULTS OF A LOCAL RESEARCH
(IDENTITY AND LANGUAGES – RESULTS OF A LOCAL RESEARCH)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Tatiana Hrivikova
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 19-25
• No. of Pages: 7
• Keywords: Foreign languages; multilingual European; language preference; national identity; European identity; university students; quantitative research
• Summary/Abstract: Foundation of a new Faculty of Applied Languages required the creation of a number of new courses based on a detailed knowledge of needs and attitudes of tertiary level students in relation to languages, history, civilization and identity. Slovakia as a member of EU has been developing since accession in 2004 under its strong influence. The young generation has found new opportunities but challenges too. These facts induced an increased interest in studying the influences of intercultural communication within the European environment. The presented research focused on two fundamental areas; a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of language learning among university students, and measuring and comparison of two identities closely related to languages, national and European ones. The findings of the research carried out by means of a questionnaire confirmed that the university students in Bratislava coming from all regions of Slovakia can be characterized as fully fledged multilingual/plurilingual Europeans with significant identification with both national and European identities

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COMPUTER LINGUISTICS AND PRAGMATICS

COMPUTER LINGUISTICS AND PRAGMATICS
(COMPUTER LINGUISTICS AND PRAGMATICS)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Juozas Korsakas, Giedrė Klimovienė
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 26-30
• No. of Pages: 5
• Keywords: Comparative linguostatistical analysis; computer linguistics; glotodidactics; lexical system; pragmatics; statistical analysis.
• Summary/Abstract: The article ‘ComputerLinguistics and Pragmatics’ is linguistic research of every aspect requiring serious preparatory and statistical analysis efforts. In this context perception of the pragmatics includes relation of specialists to the language as well as the applied aspects of linguodidactics or glotodidactics research results. Linguistic statistics methods are used to analyze lexis and terminology in educational book for non-humanitarian subject of general education (Textbook of Physics). It is an important problem of didactics in the aspect of students’ vocabulary development. The investigation aims to determine the frequencies of the used lexis functioning in texts of concrete subject in respect of the language lexical system. The analysis focuses on the educational texts of the Textbook of Physics: in total the texts had 41525 words and their forms. The lexicographically organized vocabulary has only 3050 different words. The iteration index (ratio of the numbers indicating the use of words in the educational texts and size of the dictionary) is 13,6; on average each word repeats 13-14 times. This shows lexical diversity of the texts: the smaller this number, the higher diversity. The comparative linguostatistical analysis is based on the lexical system (frequency use of words) of the Lithuanian, English, Latvian and Russian languages. The results of statistical lexical analysis are presented in four tables and one figure.

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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF YOUNG PEOPLE

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF YOUNG PEOPLE
(SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF YOUNG PEOPLE)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Jan Kida
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 31-34
• No. of Pages: 4
• Keywords:
• Summary/Abstract: The article generally discusses some very important problems such as society, culture, social sciences, linguistics and their relations with language education at schools, colleges and universities. Many disciplines are concerned with aspects of society for example history, law, economics, political and social sciences. The most general studies of social life that interest us here are sociology, ethnology, ethnography, social and cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics.

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RESPONSIBILITY DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES

RESPONSIBILITY DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES
(RESPONSIBILITY DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Ilona Kildienė, Rūta Lazauskienė
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 35-40
• No. of Pages: 6
• Keywords:
• Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of responsibility development in communicative class activity. The paper gives the review of the concept of responsibility and reveals its characteristic features. The survey of students‘ opinions helps to identify possibilities of responsibility development in classess. The characteristic features of a responsible personality that have determining influence on responsibility development are discussed. Students‘ needs for foreign language studies, their motives of learning and skills necessary in professional carrier are analyzed. The advantages of teamwork and the foreign language learning methods that are the most effective ones for responsibility development are determined. Questionnaires (range and nominal scales) have been used for the data collection. The investigation leads to the conclusion that students are to be incouraged to participate in the teaching – learning process more actively and assess their own needs.

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TERMS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT, TEXTS AND DICTIONARIES

TERMS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT, TEXTS AND DICTIONARIES
(TERMS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT, TEXTS AND DICTIONARIES)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Ina Klijūnaitė, Kazys Karklius
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 41-44
• No. of Pages: 4
• Keywords: Term; terms of computer science; mathematical linguistics; statistical analysis (linguostatistics); frequency indexes; active vocabulary; passive vocabulary
• Summary/Abstract: An increasing stream of texts about information technologies (IT) in the Lithuanian language usually translated from the English language makes the research of frequentative use of terms of computer science more relevant and important to the present. The present article reviews single-word terms (borrowings, derivatives, loan-translations, terminologized Lithuanian words) within the aspect of mathematical linguistics or linguostatistics. The interaction of the English language and the Lithuanian language as the cause of origin of a great many new scientific terms in the Lithuanian language is emphasized.

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DEVELOPING STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY IN THE PROCESS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

DEVELOPING STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY IN THE PROCESS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
(DEVELOPING STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY IN THE PROCESS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Raminta Barzdžiukienė, Neringa Vaitkienė, Giedrė Klimovienė
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 45-50
• No. of Pages: 6
• Keywords: Degree of student responsibility; questionnaire; learner independence; modern technologies; active teaching methods; new learning paradigm
• Summary/Abstract: The problem of getting students to be responsible for their own learning is still serious and becoming more so. Undoubtedly, students who are being irresponsible will study with constant reminders or prodding. They won’t seek out challenges and avoid taking on tasks that require greater personal involvement. It will be difficult for them to meet the needs and demands of their future employers, to cooperate with the people with whom they will work. Therefore fostering responsibility becomes of utmost importance in university education included. The present research aims to investigate a degree of student responsibility and foresee all possible means for its advancement. Responsibility for learning is investigated from the students’ perspective in order to discover what they see as relevant or meaningful while acquiring knowledge and mastering (self-monitoring, goal, setting, decision making, conflict-resolution, social, study and team) skills that will be useful for their future career development. A self-adapted questionnaire has been prepared for this purpose. The obtained data revealed a link between the learner independence and responsibility allowing to foresee the implications for the development of student responsibility. Our experience suggests that shift from an educator as the only source of knowledge to students’ advisor, learner independence, sufficient access to modern technologies and information, active (project- based, case-study and team) methods can provide supportive environment for responsibility development. Active teaching methods place the responsibility for learning on the student by encouraging him/her to find the answer to a problem rather than memorizing a teacher – given information. A new learning paradigm changes understanding about studies and their arrangement, promotes a student to develop a responsible attitude towards all the participants of the teaching/learning process.

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FOREIGN WORDS AND FOREIGN WORDS SIGNIFICANCE IN CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

FOREIGN WORDS AND FOREIGN WORDS SIGNIFICANCE IN CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
(FOREIGN WORDS AND FOREIGN WORDS SIGNIFICANCE IN CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Viktorija Kuzina
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 51-55
• No. of Pages: 5
• Keywords: School textbooks; children literature; borrowed words; linguastatistical analysis.
• Summary/Abstract: Pre – primary school and basic educational programmes pay attention to children’s speech development, combining it with word stock development and activisation, acquirement of words’ meaning. As early as in kindergarten, favourable opportunities should be provided for the development of literary correct and rich language, non-literate words must be eliminated from the child’s speech. The kindergarten curriculum claims that the preschool age the child must acquire such a vocabulary, which can ensure the communication by means of the language, prepare them for successful learning at school, fosters perception of folklore, fiction, films, radio and TV programmes. While the child is learning the language, the words from its passive vocabulary can enter the active vocabulary, and it depends on the work done for the language enrichment by adults. A very important task to be implemented by both parents and teachers is to open up the wealth of the literary language, which can be perceived through multiple sources – folksongs, fairytales, legends, proverbs, sayings, riddles. A major role is played by fiction in the process of personality development, because it facilitates immensely the child’s knowledge about the environment, adult and peers’ life, about their ideas, actions and aspirations. Diminutives, exclamation words and also sound verbs, serving well for emotional efficiently short description of feelings, volition or reality and to express their assessment, are widely involved by both adults and children in their language as well as used in genres of folklore, children literature. Children have to be able to use comparisons, synonyms, idioms, foreign words, because in daily speech they are integral components (they are widespread in fiction and in other styles, different language fields). Loans help to acquire foreign language easier, approach languages and promote understanding.

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PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE – SLOVENIA

PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE – SLOVENIA
(PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE – SLOVENIA)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Joze Lipnik
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 56-58
• No. of Pages: 3
• Keywords: nation; language; country; Slovenia; Slovenian; the official language; national language
• Summary/Abstract: The world is made of many nations and languages. Some languages define a nation, some do not. There are languages that are spoken very similar in several countries, and therefore in more nations (e.g. English, Spanish, German), there are languages spoken by a single nation (e.g. Slovenian), and there are nations that have more than one language (e.g. Indians). Most of the countries unite several nations and have several official languages (e.g. Switzerland) or a single official language for all citizens (e.g. USA). Slovenia is a national state in which the majority of residents are Slovenes, but there also ethnic minorities (Italian and Hungarian). Slovenian nation has developed only in the last few centuries, but the Slovenian language has been developing for a millennia. Slovene language became an official language only after the First World War and after the independence (1991), the Slovenian language became a state language.

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THE SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO EMOTIONAL POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN LINGUISTIC UNITY

THE SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO EMOTIONAL POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN LINGUISTIC UNITY
(THE SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO EMOTIONAL POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN LINGUISTIC UNITY )

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Tamara Lobanova-Shunina, Yuri Shunin
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 59-65
• No. of Pages: 7
• Keywords: linguistic unity; European integration; emotional components in education; sociometry
• Summary/Abstract: During the last two decades, the European Commission and the Council of Europe have taken initiatives to promote multilingualism. The underlying assumption to encourage multilingualism is the need to find a balance between an integrated identity as a European citizen and the necessity of maintaining linguistic and cultural diversity. At the same time, cultural and linguistic diversity within Europe stimulates the development of linguistic unity, which is fundamental to the European integration. Fostering positive intercultural communication requires the development of effective communicative competence, which comprises continuous emotional adjustment to the cultural differences with which we engage in the process of social interaction. To make the process challenging, common interest must be placed over difference. European community needs to build a new inclusive and diverse European culture that selectively employs all the useful and functional aspects of our commonalities and our differences. All the constituent cultures with their experiences and lessons learned, need to contribute to the constructive humane design of the European Union, and higher education has a pivotal role to play in this process

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TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN ICT-BASED LEARNING SETTINGS

TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN ICT-BASED LEARNING SETTINGS
(TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN ICT-BASED LEARNING SETTINGS)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Valdas Narbutas
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 66-71
• No. of Pages: 6
• Keywords: network-based learning environment; web-based activities; integration of online activities; ESL.
• Summary/Abstract: The 21st century confronts its citizenship with new choices, opportunities and challenges due to the ubiquitous presence of technology into all spheres of life: business and administration, government, and education. Developments in technology and research into learning are changing the face of how, where and when people learn. Two factors come together — the understanding that learning is exploring and the ability of technology to provide wide spaces for exploration (Evans, St Johns, 1998). In these two senses the use of technology complements and extends the learner-centred methodology. Its advantage is that learners can access the material in their own time, work through the material at their own pace, choosing topics and subject areas to match their own interests, i.e. learners are in control of their language learning and have increased choice. One aspect of this increased choice is that the new technology is blurring the distinctions between self-study outside the class, distance learning and institutional self-access centres (Moore, 1996). The problem of the research is the following: the promotion of autonomous learning of foreign languages and the growing role of online information technologies are getting more and more importance in language teaching in all educational institutions. This article also aims at providing a clearer understanding of the benefits of using ICTs, thus enabling to further study of the tools and resources which could provide of help into teaching practices. The use of different web based training platforms with specific training modules, a collaborative environment and the use of different communication tools and resources exclusively dedicated to teachers aims at providing new perspectives to face the teaching of English as a foreign language from an innovating perspective. The objectives of the research are as follow: 1. To define the ways of integrating the Internet and information technologies into the curriculum that it is really motivating not only students, but teachers as well. 2.To define the ways of developing the students' language skills, and fostering a multi-cultural, international perspective for our ever-changing, interdependent world.

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GRAMMATICAL VARIABLES IN THE SPEECHES OF BARACK OBAMA AND MICHELLE OBAMA

GRAMMATICAL VARIABLES IN THE SPEECHES OF BARACK OBAMA AND MICHELLE OBAMA
(GRAMMATICAL VARIABLES IN THE SPEECHES OF BARACK OBAMA AND MICHELLE OBAMA)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Ina Klijūnaitė, Aurimas Nausėda
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Social Sciences
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 72-76
• No. of Pages: 5
• Keywords: sociolinguistic and stylistic analysis; political discourse; linguistic variables; use of pronouns.
• Summary/Abstract: The article analyses grammatical variables in the speeches of the US President Barack Obama and the First Lady of the US Michelle Obama. The following research methods have been used in the article: sociolinguistic analysis and the corpus analysis method (the computational linguistics software WordSmith Tools was used to identify the recurrent elements of political speeches).The above mentioned reasearch methods enabled to reveal the topicality of the research related to linguistic variables (pronouns as grammatical variables) and peculiarities of the US oratorical style. The analysis of speeches revealed that subtle rhetorical communication in the US is related to usage of grammatical variables (use of pronouns). Use of grammatical variables (especially the first person pronoun “we”) in the speeches is related to communicative aim to share responsibility with the listeners or readers at the same time, when the usage of other grammatical variables (use of the third person pronouns “he”and “she”) signals reference to personal family history, especially in the speeches of Michelle Obama. The need arises to investigate political speeches paying attention to analysis of grammatical and lexical variables in the US political speeches.

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UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF CULTURE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF CULTURE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
(UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF CULTURE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Ildikó Némethová
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 77-81
• No. of Pages: 5
• Keywords: culture; economics; formal institutions; informal institutions; institutional change
• Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore and analyse how culture affects societies in their efforts to achieve economic development; how efficient political governance can remove or alter cultural obstacles to progress; how development transforms a society from traditional ways of thinking to modern modes of conduct. Furthermore, the aim of this paper is to represent culture in terms which may me capable of bridging the divide that exists between it and economics, that is to propose a way of conceptualising the role of culture in influencing or conditioning economic performance. It also considers recent efforts to think more fundamentally about what constitutes the idea of human development, efforts which place the development process squarely into a cultural milieu. It then discusses the current revival of interest in the relationship between culture and economy from a “history of economic thought-perspective,” with special attention both to the Weberian studies of development and the New Institutional Economics, which endeavour to integrate culture into economics.

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THE IMPACT OF ENGLISH ON THE SLOVAK LANGUAGE CULTURE

THE IMPACT OF ENGLISH ON THE SLOVAK LANGUAGE CULTURE
(THE IMPACT OF ENGLISH ON THE SLOVAK LANGUAGE CULTURE)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Milada Pauleová
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 82-86
• No. of Pages: 5
• Keywords: language; culture; impact; mass media; language of professionals; orthography; synonyms; false friends.
• Summary/Abstract: In my research, I study the influence of English on our society, culture and mother tongue, therefore I will focus on the reasons leading to the use of English in the Slovak language. My research methodology is direct, I record all the changes found in the mass media which have a huge impact on the audience, and the language usage of the young generation. As I teach applied linguistics, i.e. I teach potential translators mainly in the economic field, and being a translator myself, the research of the language development is an inevitable part of my work. It is fashionable to use English expressions in our everyday lives even in such cases where we have our own Slovak expressions. The problem is when the use of English words in Slovak is exaggerated in the mass media When common people hear English words in Slovak sentences too often they may get accustomed to this fact and it may lead to a decline of our own language culture. In conclusion, I will summarize the situation as sometimes a bit “jeopardizing” the purity of our mother tongue, on the other hand as an unavoidable fact in the language development.

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BENEFITING FROM A TEXT - ORIENTED EFL/ESP COURSE

BENEFITING FROM A TEXT - ORIENTED EFL/ESP COURSE
(BENEFITING FROM A TEXT - ORIENTED EFL/ESP COURSE )

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Genovaitė Snuviškienė
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 87-91
• No. of Pages: 5
• Keywords: text-based approach; meaning; form; reading comprehension; non-native speakers of English; form-focused instruction; Focus-on-form approach
• Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to summarise the experience of working with special English texts and reveal the benefits of a text-oriented course in teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) to the engineering students, to whom English is a foreign language. The use of different approaches to texts is based on the practice of working with the texts meant for teaching ESP to the civil engineering students in VGTU.The paper provides an opportunity to follow the steps of a text-based course through the examples from the book tailored to the needs of the engineering students. The choice of the tasks was firstly determined by the need of the explicit learning of L2 grammar integrated into the specific content serving as a further springboard for production. In the theoretical part of the paper the possibilities of a text-based teaching leading to linguistic and communicative knowledge are approached through the relevant L2 teaching methods considering meaning and form. The suggested strategies is an attempt to seek the ways of more effective ESP learning meeting the needs of the learner.

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SHAPING MODERN SERBIAN ETHNOLINGUISTIC NATION AND NATIONAL STATE-BUILDING IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH C.

SHAPING MODERN SERBIAN ETHNOLINGUISTIC NATION AND NATIONAL STATE-BUILDING IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH C.
(SHAPING MODERN SERBIAN ETHNOLINGUISTIC NATION AND NATIONAL STATE-BUILDING IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH C.)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Vladislav B. Sotirović
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 92-96
• No. of Pages: 5
• Keywords: Balkans; Serbs; Serbia; Shtokavian dialect
• Summary/Abstract: This research paper sets out to present linguistic aspect of ideological framework in making both Serbian national identity and national state building program created in the first half of 19th century by two different Serbian writers (Vuk Stefanovic-Karadzic and Ilija Garasanin). This “linguistic” framework of national identity became in the following decades one of the cornerstones of Serbian national ideology and foreign policy. The question of national identity and creation of national state occupied the first place of agenda in the mind of the leading Serbian intellectuals and politicians in the first half of 19th c. Imbued by ideas of German Romanticism and French Revolution, Serbian patriotic public workers set up a goal to create an ideological-political framework for Serbian national liberation under foreign occupation – Roman Catholic Habsburg Monarchy and Islamic Ottoman Empire.

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TERMINOLOGY: THE TERM VARIANCE IN THE ENGLISH AND LITHUANIAN SPECIAL LANGUAGE OF ECONOMICS

TERMINOLOGY: THE TERM VARIANCE IN THE ENGLISH AND LITHUANIAN SPECIAL LANGUAGE OF ECONOMICS
(TERMINOLOGY: THE TERM VARIANCE IN THE ENGLISH AND LITHUANIAN SPECIAL LANGUAGE OF ECONOMICS)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Virginija Stankevičienė, Dana Švenčionienė
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 97-101
• No. of Pages: 5
• Keywords: term; term variant (synonym); special language (SL); systematic comparison; specific terms of economics; designation; ambiguity; lexical unit
• Summary/Abstract: Terms are special lexical items which occur in a particular discipline. Term variants, often called synonyms, are the linguistic items that differ in form and may have nearly the same meaning as another term words in a special language. Thus a systematic comparison of the English terms of economics with the Lithuanian language searching for term equivalents to designate new phenomena of some particular things in Lithuanian as a consequence often reveals conceptual inconsistencies. Therefore a need for thorough study of specific terms of economics in the native Lithuanian language provides a firm basis for the creation of particularly proper and relevant ones. Accordingly, the process of designation of relevant phenomena causes the emergence of term variants often influenced by English. Attention should be paid to the fact that many term variants may occur in some senses and they can often pose ambiguity from a different perspective. However, a cause of misunderstanding and inaccuracy in using term variants of economics occurs to be problematic when designating the same concept. The paper focuses on the expansion of the terms in the sense of term variants that are produced in the Lithuanian special language of economics.

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THE GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR AS A SOCIOLINGUISTIC MARKER IN HORROR STORIES

THE GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR AS A SOCIOLINGUISTIC MARKER IN HORROR STORIES
(THE GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR AS A SOCIOLINGUISTIC MARKER IN HORROR STORIES)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Eugenija Jurkonienė, Solveiga Sušinskienė
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 102-105
• No. of Pages: 4
• Keywords: grammatical metaphor; nominalization; horror stories; partially substantivized; fully substantivized.
• Summary/Abstract: The present work is an attempt to analyze the grammatical metaphors as the sociolinguistic markers within sociolinguistic framework. The paper reviews the interrelationship between grammatical metaphors and horror stories. The writer has to choose between the two abstract nouns: partially substantivized and fully substantivized in order to impart the story with some metaphorical and transcendental shading. The present work can be used for the analysis of fiction text purposes and for understanding different texts which abound in abstract nouns.

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INSIGHTS ON PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING AND WAYS OF OVERCOMING IT

INSIGHTS ON PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING AND WAYS OF OVERCOMING IT
(INSIGHTS ON PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING AND WAYS OF OVERCOMING IT)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Ojaras Purvinis, Dalia SUSNIENĖ, Rūta Virbickaitė
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 106-111
• No. of Pages: 6
• Keywords: presentation; stress; public speaking; speaker; information receiver.
• Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the problems of doing a presentation and gives some recommendation how to overcome them. Management students have to do a presentation of their term-papers for their final English exam. But they face with many difficulties doing it. The survey showed that the main problem for students doing a presentation is the fear of audience and the fear of being critically evaluated by their teacher as well as by their colleagues. The authors analyse these problems and give some advice how to overcome them.

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SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIETY: TOWARDS DIVERSITY

SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIETY: TOWARDS DIVERSITY
(SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIETY: TOWARDS DIVERSITY)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Anelė Vosyliūtė
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 112-117
• No. of Pages: 6
• Keywords: sociology; the change of its problems; history of sociology; social transformation
• Summary/Abstract: In social sciences the process of globalisation is influencing the change of methodologies of investigations, increases the sociological knowledge (and its terms) and improves the interpretation used in the analyses and research carried out in Lithuania. It is very significant to understand now how social and private sphere (Rossler B. 2005), reveal the power of people. The very significant question is - what is the influence of new challenges to family, individual and to all society. In the paper the author analyses changing problems of Lithuanian sociology, the features of its intellectual discourse, influence of foreigner science and language. The author describes what social phenomena enrich the sociological knowledge; the approaches of sociology reveal different relations between knowledge and social life.

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DISABLED PEOPLE: THE PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY

DISABLED PEOPLE: THE PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY
(DISABLED PEOPLE: THE PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY)

• Publication: (04/2010)
• Author(s): Anelė Vosyliūtė
• Contributor(s):
• Language: English
• Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
• Issue: 04/2010
• Page Range: 118-121
• No. of Pages: 4
• Keywords: disability; positive changes in the situation of disabled; struggle for rights; identity problems; body of disabled.
• Summary/Abstract: In the paper some aspects of the way of life of infirm (disabled) people, their situation, state, meanings, relations with others, body problems are analysed. The author pays attention to the society health service, social medicine, the state of the past and modern patients; the phenomenological approach, the life history method are used. In the paper is stressed that now, in the new type of risk society conditions, disability is widely spread. The mode of life and social environment of the modern disabled people are determined by the situation of democratic civic society and more human as in old time principles of society.

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