Glottodidactica. An International Journal of Applied Linguistics
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“When a foreign language learner becomes a foreign language teacher…” – A cross-cultural study into the affective domain of teaching
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to characterize early experiences of future teachers of English in Polish and Turkish contexts; describe their emotions and attitudes as well as analyze their evaluations of the past situations. When a foreign language learner becomes a foreign language teacher…, firstly s/he has to transform from a FL student to a FL teacher, develop the ability to talk about one’s early experiences and relate them to future growth. In this sense, narrative inquiry largely helps in contextualizing and transforming one’s experience. The data collected for the study involve narratives produced by Turkish and Polish teacher trainees
The Impact of Blended Learning on Teaching English for Vocational Purposes
Get PDFThe one-group experiment attempted to investigate the impact of blended learning on teaching English for Vocational Purposes (EVP). To maximize its internal and external validity, methodology of triangulation was employed. The results obtained indicate considerable progress and statistically significant differences between the pre-treatment and post-treatment scores in the overall acquisition of technical terminology and in the area of vocational vocabulary learned productively
Cultural Scripts and Multilingualism in the Sciences.
Get PDFThe use of a reduced verbal system as ELF English as a lingua franca in the sciences does not appear to be a perfectly adequate way of expressing cultural identities. A modern society should instead enforce, through instruction, the understanding of several national cultural scripts, one’s own and others, and the understanding of the way communication and languages works. Multilingualism and interculture in the scientific world can be made possible by the digital world and its new editorial products
Bewertung von Dolmetschleistungen im Unterricht
Get PDF-The article deals with the linguistic and paralinguistic problems that arise in the process of interpreter training and discusses the methods of assessing students’ progress. The data was collected during the practical courses in consecutive interpreting for the 3rd-year students of the Institute of Applied Linguistics in Poznań and comprises the period of five years. Additionally, different methods of evaluating students’ progress are analyzed with respect to their effectiveness and potential advantages for interpreters in training
Sylwia Adamczak-Krysztofowicz, Monika Kowalonek-Janczarek, Marcin Maciejewski, Aldona Sopata (Hrsg.). Aktuelle Probleme der angewandten Linguistik. Interkulturalität als Schlüsselkompetenz für Fremdsprachenlehrer, Übersetzer und Mediatoren. Seria Język - Kultura - Komunikacja. Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM: Poznań 2011, 247 S.
Get PDFMechthild Habermann, Gabriele Diewald, Maria Thurmair (Hrsg.). Fit für das Bachelorstudium. Grundwissen Grammatik. Dudenverlag: Mannheim u.a. 2009, 211 S.
Get PDFReformpädagogik als eine Antwort auf die Modernisierungsprozesse am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts
Get PDFAfter a prolonged absence of the topic of education reformers in the public discussion nowadays it’s obviously an increased interest in their approaches and models of performance. The theoretical reflections of the progressive education based on the ideas of the creative power of the child figuring in a mythical, romantic-coded image of the child as a genius. This conception was in opposite to the rigid forms of teaching, to every automatism of learning, against the authoritarian treating of teachers with students
Problems and challenges in teaching and learning speaking at advanced level
Get PDFThe article deals with the problems of teaching and learning speaking, in particular those which are most relevant in the context of developing oral skills at the advanced level of foreign language proficiency. The complex nature of spoken discourse must be taken into account and reflected at each stage of the learning process. Thus, the article examines the difficulties connected with choosing the appropriate framework and approach and discusses the typical patterns of interaction in the foreign language classroom. It also examines forms of control and evaluation and suggests some speaking activities which seem most suitable for advanced language learners in the light of the above theoretical considerations
