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Параметри на социално функциониране на турския език в България

Author(s): Harun Bekir / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The linguistic picture in Bulgaria is far from monolinguistic. Turkish is in a strong position in Bulgarian linguistic situation because it is really used and is a key element of the group identity of its bearers. Turkish in Bulgaria enjoys a high prestige withing the framework of its own group. It has real communication functions and is handed down in the family. The distribution and social function of Turkish as one of the minority languages is also important for the linguistic situation in the country. In connection with this, it is one of the linguistic formations participating in the Bulgarian linguistic situation. In analyzing the functioning of Turkish in Bulgaria, we have also tried to define the spheres of its usage and to present the place of Turkish in the life of the Turks, in addition to the spheres of communication and the individual social strata; the main trends related to Turkish and the factors that determine them, as well as to evaluate the conditions with a view to the future of Turkish among the Turkish community in Bulgaria.

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Measuring learner (mis)use: Tense and aspect errors in the Bulgarian and German components of ICLE

Author(s): Svetla Rogatcheva / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The English tense-aspect system has been identified as notoriously difficult for EFL learners from a variety of mother-tongue backgrounds and proficiency levels. This is due to such factors as inadequate descriptions of tense and aspect in teaching materials or differences between the English tense-aspect system and the tense-aspect systems of the learners’ native languages. This paper examines learner use of tense-aspect forms on the basis of the Bulgarian and German components of the International Corpus of Learner English. The focus of the study is on learner misuse of tense-aspect forms and the methods to measure it. The results show that both learner groups have problems with the sequence of tenses, although their accuracy rates for the individual tense-aspect forms differ.

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Selected errors in the use of verbs by adult learners of English at B1, B2 and C1 levels

Author(s): Sylwia Twardo / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper presents an analysis of selected error types that appear in a learner corpus of students’ examination work in English, tagged for part of speech (POS) using CLAWS7. The study focuses on verbs and embraces two aspects: errors made in POS- tagging of verbs, and non-word errors made by students in words tagged as verbs. Non-word errors are words which do not belong to an English word list. The erroneously POS-tagged verbs were mostly non-words, but some were other parts of speech. In the latter case the errors may have been caused by the context in which the students used these words. The non-word errors were in most cases spelling errors but also morphological errors mainly connected with creating the past forms and –ing forms.

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Interference in advanced English interlanguage: Scope, detectability and dependency

Author(s): Susanne Kämmerer / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper focuses on a multi-level approach to interference in advanced English interlanguage based on three studies using the German, Spanish and French subcorpora of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage ( LINDSEI). The studies aimed to provide insights into: the scope of interferenceinduced errors (using the German subcorpus of LINDSEI); learner-centred identification and explanation of errors to explore the learners’ competence / performance level (using the German subcorpus); as well as the extent to which interference-induced errors occur due to congruent structures in the target language and the learner’s L1 (using the German, Spanish and French subcorpora).

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Completing the feedback loop: Creating spoken learner corpora

Author(s): M. Trevor Shanklin / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This study documents the procedures put in place to create and analyze spoken learner corpora from advanced second-language speakers. The first part describes the development of CAST, an on-line proficiency test, and is followed by a report on an ESL pilot study based on spoken responses from the CAST test; criteria are examined that elucidate effective discourse – of interest were subordination, the use of the past tense and the frequency count of individual lexical items. There is a brief discussion of procedures in developing a similar review of Arabic, Persian and Japanese items; in Arabic, dialectal differences were of interest and in Japanese the examination of word frequency is extended to key words. The study ends with an outline of procedures for displaying the data for ongoing instruction and curriculum development.

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Фразеологизмы как компонент лексической компетенции иностранных граждан в изучении русского языка

Author(s): Natalia Pavlovna Andryushina / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The Russian testing system of Russian as a foreign language (RFL) is successfully operating for two decades. However, the levels of Russian language proficiency are still not described with sufficient completeness and validity. In the article the problem of reflection in the regulations of lexical competence, which is a system consisting of several components, is considered. One of the most important components are the idioms and set expressions. To form a tiered phraseological minimum is the most important task of the RFL specialists. This work proposes solutions to some theoretical and practical problems in the determining the scope and content of the phraseological lows.

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Сколько нужно методик преподавания русского языка как иностранного?

Author(s): Josef Dohnal / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The thesis calls into question the blasted preference of the communicative method in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The thesis suggests that the goals of the teaching should be taken as the basic touchstone while searching for a applicable method of teaching.

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Применение фреймового анализа в преподавании делового русского языка

Author(s): Elena Arkadyevna Nikitina / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

Teaching business Russian language can be based on modern corporations discursive practices for easier integration of foreign students into Russian business sphere. Research of business discursive practices is actively carried out in modern communication science. So, communicative activity of Omsk industrial enterprises is being monitored at scientific seminars of Omsk State University for several years. The objective of such studies is to determine the means of company’s image creation. Modern linguistics has developed a variety of discourse analysis methods which reveal both reality interpretation language means and reality models themselves (we consider images to be such models in this case). Frame is a tool of image description in our research: this is the structure the company tries to impose on target audience. We suppose that the results of frame analysis provide good opportunities to visualize the structure of the basic vocabulary necessary for foreign students communicative competence formation in the sphere of Russian business discourse.

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INTEGRATING POETRY INTO THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Author(s): Tatiana Savchenko / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The article deals with the theoretical foundations of foreign language acquisition which are related to the integration of poetic texts into foreign language teaching. The article defines poetic text and its role in foreign language teaching and focuses on the selected foreign language acquisition theories and their interconnectedness with using poetic texts in the teaching of foreign languages.

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AUTONOMIE ŽÁKA V CIZOJAZYČNÉ VÝUCE NA PRIMÁRNÍM A SEKUNDÁRNÍM STUPNI VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ

Author(s): Adam Zeisek / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

This mapping review deals with research focused on developing learner autonomy in pre-tertiary schools. It reviews five pieces of research which deal with learner autonomy in connection with other areas. In four cases the described research is qualitative (two of which are examples of action research) and one quantitative. The author also briefly describes the current state of knowledge concerning learner autonomy.

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ROZVOJ ŘEČOVÉ DOVEDNOSTI MLUVENÍ S VYUŽITÍM ASYNCHRONNÍCH ICT NÁSTROJŮ: PŘEHLEDOVÁ STUDIE

Author(s): Terezie NERUŠILOVÁ / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

This review aims to map the research connected with the use of ICT tools for the development of speaking skill in foreign language learning. It is based on nine international studies showing in which ways the asynchronous online environment can be used for the development of the speaking skill, emphasising the positive influence of ICT on students’ motivation, and some of them pointing out the importance of feedback.

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PŘEHLEDOVÁ STUDIE VÝZKUMŮ STYLŮ UČENÍ SE CIZÍMU JAZYKU

Author(s): Petra Langerová / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

The paper presents current international research studies on foreign language learning styles. The studies apply learning styles questionnaires on university, secondary and elementary school students, including students of a language institute, mostly with the aim of making language instruction more effective, or for identifying learning styles used in a particular skill.

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První hodina francouzského jazyka – otázky cílů, návaznosti obsahu, procesů učení a motivace

Author(s): Tomáš Klinka,Klára Uličná / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

Výuka cizích jazyků je specifická mimo jiné tím, že je její obsah totožný s jejím cílem i prostředky jejich dosahování. „Jinými slovy, komunikační kompetence v této výuce představuje cíl a její užívání i cestu k jejímu rozvoji.“ (Píšová et al., 2011, s. 56). Komunikační kompetence je obecně akceptovaným cílem výuky cizích jazyků jak v literatuře odborné, tak v oblasti programových a kurikulárních dokumentů (např. Bachman, 1990; SERRJ, 2002), přičemž nelze opomenout fakt, že je komunikační kompetence v tomto kontextu pojímána jako konstrukt doménově specifický (domain specific), jenž přináleží cizojazyčné výuce, a to oproti jedné z klíčových kompetencí, doménově obecně (domain general) nadoborově definovanému cíli, komunikativní kompetenci [sic] (např. RVP ZV, 2007).

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Syntactic functions of non-fi nite verb forms in a learner corpus of Czech students

Author(s): Libuše Hornová / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The aim of this paper is to present some fi ndings resulting from the analysis of a small learner corpus of spoken English. Major attention is paid to the frequency of non-fi nite verb forms in their varied syntactic functions. The results are compared with corpus fi ndings presented in Biber et al. (1999 ) and also assessed according to contrastive interlanguage analysis (CIA), (Granger, 2009), which can help us estimate the possible infl uence of the learners´ native language (L1), Czech. The CIA analysis is based on the typological differences between the students’ L1 and L2 (Mathesius, 1975, Knittlová et al, 2010, Dušková et al, 1988, to name a few). The third aim is to suggest possible innovations in advanced language teaching/learning of the English language. By reducing the L1 transfer, the students´ performance could become closer to English native speakers´ norms.

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ЛИНГВОМЕТОДИЧЕСКИЙ ПОТЕНЦИАЛ ФОЛЬКЛОРНЫХ ТЕКСТОВ В ПРАКТИКЕ ПРЕПОДАВАНИЯ РУССКОГО ЯЗЫКА КАК ИНОСТРАННОГО

Author(s): Nina Agapova / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The presentation shows how to use folk texts (including those having regional features) during the lessons of Russian language with foreign learners. It contains the analysis of difficulties which the learners encounter during the process of adaptation to the culture and the language of other country. It includes examples of methodical techniques for minimization of such difficulties. It presents the value of folk texts for learning Russian foreign language and interpretation of other linguoculture. The author uses her experience of teaching Russian to foreign students of Faculty of Philology of Tomsk State University.

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ОБУЧАЮЩАЯ КОММУНИКАТИВНАЯ ИГРА CONTACT GAME: SILMULATION OF LIFE IN MOSCOW

Author(s): Inna Adamson / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

In the article are presentes the methodical reception in application of game techniques in practice of teaching Russian as Foreign. In particular, use of the communicative game „Contact Game, Simulation Life in Moscow“, one of authors of the version in Russian is the author of this paper. Practice of use has shown the positive moments and also has revealed problems.

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ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ АЛЬТЕРНАТИВНЫХ МЕТОДОВ И МЕТОДИЧЕСКИХ ПРИЕМОВ ПРИ ОБУЧЕНИИ ИНОСТРАННОМУ ЯЗЫКУ

Author(s): Olga Bobrzyková / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

Innovative activity is one of the basic concepts of modern pedagogy. The subject of research in this article is the use of alternative methods teaching aids in a foreign language teaching, including Russian. In this article, the history of the development of the theory of teaching foreign languages from the point of view of the three main methodological directions and their modifications is considered. The article also analyzes the main approaches to the main innovative methods in the field of teaching foreign languages, and gives concrete examples of the use of non-standard methods and tools for teaching a foreign language.

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TEACHING OF RELATED LANGUAGES: MAIN METHODICAL PRINCIPLES

Author(s): Helena Kolosova / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

It is widely known that in methods of language teaching special attention is always paid to the interference at all language levels, so called feedback method is used as well as comparative and contrastive methods. It seems in this case to mention it could be the reason to study attentively some special methods which can help to develop language intuition which in turn will help to understand the essence of the language and to see differences and similarities of the language and culture pictures of the world. Language teaching in today's world always takes into account problems of intercultural and interlanguage communication, it is aimed at achieving effective communication and adequate understanding between participants of the communicative act who can be representatives of different cultures. In general bringing up of tolerant relation to people from another nationality, as well as getting students to know the culture of other nations should be the most important parts of any language teaching. The article will consider peculiarities of teaching of the Russian language to students using method of historical commenting based on comparative historical and diachronic methods of research (pleophony//reflection of consonants’ combinations etc.), facts of interlanguage paronymy and homonymy, comparison of cultural elements as part of linguacultural interference (ethical norms, national holidays etc), projections of verbal and non-verbal communication. When teaching Russian at university different methods can be used – traditional (visual means, text work, project work) as well as innovative which appeared as a result of IT technologies emergence (social networks and emailing).

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Sebehodnocení ve studiu angličtiny v terciárním vzdělávání: Přehledová studie

Author(s): Kateřina Keplová / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

This study aims to provide an insight into the current research of the development of the self-assessment skill, focusing on tertiary students of English. The study poses the following questions: How is self-assessment defined in the selected research papers? What are the most common aims and methods of the selected research papers? What are the essential findings of the selected research papers? The selected research papers show that the development of the self-assessment skill has a positive effect on the overall language acquisition. Research into the actual process of the development of self-assessment skills is still scarce.

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Role a využití didaktického překladu a mediačních činností ve výuce francouzštiny: Přehledová studie

Author(s): Daniela Veškrnová / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

This review maps the research on the role of pedagogical translation and mediation activities in the teaching of French in tertiary education. The selected research papers suggest that the use of mother tongue can be an important and equal tool for communication skills development in second/foreign language acquisition and supports interculturality in education, similarly to mediation activities in mother tongue or target language.

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