scholarly journals Foreign language learning and education in minority circumstances. Problems and possible solutions

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Szilvia Batyi
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition

Some form of bi- and multilingualism means the naturallingual condition for more than the half of the population of the Earth. It is a substantial linguistic aim of the Transcarpathian Hungarian community that beside preservation of their mother tongue (the Hungarian), acquire the state language (the Ukrainian language) and the basis of at least one world language. But this aim is hindered by a lot of things in Transcarpathia. The goal of the study isto shed light on these problems and to find possible solutions based on two researches. The first research, which was carried out in the Tanscarpathian Hungarian schools, was to reveal the conditions and problems of foreign language education. The research threwlight on numerous problems that approve the low level of foreign language knowledge of the Tanscarpathian Hungarian youth. Attitudes and stereotypes influence the success of foreign language acquisition. For this reason in the second part of the study I would like to show, what kind of stereotypes and attitudes can be discovered in the parents (who are lay linguistically and language pedagogically) concerning foreign languages, and within this especially concerning the English language. It appears from the interviews, that nor the attitudes of the state towards foreign languages that was inherited from the soviet system, neither the impassiveness of the parents improves the positive attitudes in the Transcarpathian Hungarian students towards foreign languages, and nor the state, neither the parents approve the motivation of foreign language acquisition.

scholarly journals Foreign Language Learning Process at an Early Age and Its Impact on the Native Language Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Shqipe Husaj
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Early Age

Perhaps the most complex question risen among linguists, psychologists and philosophers is how a child learns foreign language? Considering that language learning is natural and that babies are born with the ability to learn it since learning begins at birth, still Language learning (be it native or foreign) is a process that is not simple and short. It takes time, patience and self-discipline. Independent from some internal and external factors that are found inside and outside of every learner and which differ from each and every person this process has its pros and cons. A foreign (English) language learning at an early age has evolved considering modern technologies and methodologies used by individual learners and teachers. The earlier the language is learnt the more fluent the speaker is, but what happens to the mother tongue? Is the child well understood by the community, school teachers and friends? What is the progress of that child at school, what are psychological effects of technology used in the process of learning a language, what is the best age to learn a foreign language? , etc. These and many other questions will be discussed in this paper. The findings of this paper are assumed to also identify teachers’ perceptions about the main challenges they face during the classroom management with foreign language speakers in the classroom, the strategies they use, parents’ attitude toward this and also to find out some steps that parents and native language teachers should take to improve the situation.

scholarly journals The Importance of Sociolinguistics in Foreign Language Education: A Review of Selected Paper

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimmy Saputra Nasution ◽  
Muhammad Rahmadeny ◽  
Ichsan Jazzawi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Foreign Languages

This article aims to provide a brief description and review of the research conducted by Yasemin Bayyurt entitled "Current Perspectives on Sociolinguistics and English Language Education" published in The Journal of Language Teaching and Learning, using descriptive qualitative analysis, and this paper tries to understand the importance of sociolinguistics in learning foreign languages from the perspective of the researcher. In this paper, the position and importance of sociolinguistics in foreign language education is the main topic in this article. This article is intended to provide a brief review of sociolinguistics and its importance in learning foreign languages. The findings in this study see that the research of Yasemin Bayyurt discusses and develops the definition of linguistic language and the relationship between sociolinguistics and foreign language education which will be explored in depth in 4 focuses. In it also mentioned the existence of several basic problems discussed in the sociolinguistic field, one example of which is variation and change language. The author examines this in three dimensions, namely the attitude towards foreign language learning, the inclusion of culture in foreign language learning, and the contribution of language planning to foreign language education. So with the findings in this study, hopefully it can be a reference for readers and hope that it can also be a replica in real life.

scholarly journals Musicians Outperform Non-Musicians In English Language Vocabulary Uptake And Listening Comprehension Tasks

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 296
Author(s):  
Nataliia Vyspinska
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
English Language ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Theoretical Data ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition ◽  
Lexical Competence

Numerous possibilities, that have arisen in the result of globalization and cultural integration, require modern specialists, and musicians in particular, to speak English language fluently. Thus, methods of teaching professionally directed foreign language should develop and heed special abilities of learners to meet their academic and professional needs. Foreign language acquisition is influenced by numerous factors such as deciphering and processing of speech sounds, words segmentation, pronunciation, memory, attention, the ability to associate the sound of the word with its meaning. It is considered that musical abilities have positive impact on these factors. The influence of musical training on foreign language acquisition has been in scope of many scholarly works worldwide. It is considered that music expertise facilitates the development of phonological, listening and vocabulary skills in foreign language learning. Moreover, musicians have abilities to detect subtle pitch deviations in music and language, segment continuous speech, as well as superior auditory abilities, which enable them to hear better even in noise. Therefore, we hypothesize, that listening can be an effective tool in teaching English professionally directed lexical competence to future musicians. In this study we analyse theoretical data relevant to the current research and seek to compare performance of musicians and non-musicians in various vocabulary and listening tasks when learning English lexical competence through listening. Our findings prove that musical expertise enhances listening comprehension skills; listening leads to vocabulary uptake and can be an effective source of English professionally directed lexical competence development in musicians.

scholarly journals NATIONALLY ORIENTED FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LINGUO-DIDACTIC PARADIGM OF THE 21ST CENTURY

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
N. Zaichenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Matter Content ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Subject Matter Content

The article deals with modern views on the concept of “nationally oriented foreign language teaching”, presented in the linguo-didactic discourse of domestic and foreign scholars of the last decades. The author reveals and characterizes its evolution as one of the basic concepts of Russian and Ukrainian language education as foreign languages. It is found that they relate to the subject matter, content, and operational components of this phenomenon. There are significant changes in the views of scholars on taking into account students’ native language in teaching these languages by speakers of languages with different systems. There is a growing interest in didactic and linguistic data processing of the analysis of Chinese and Russian (Ukrainian) languages and their practical implementation. In terms of content, priority is given to culturally oriented and ethno-psychological aspects of mastering foreign language in a monocultural and multicultural educational environment. The innovative approach to this issue is also manifested in the increasing attention of researchers to the peculiarities of cognitive, mental and educational activities of Chinese-speaking students, formed by the national linguistic and methodological tradition, which is radically different from the national communicative and active lingvodidactic paradigm and needs appropriate methodological correction. Prospects for further study of the issues raised in our investigation are related to the research of a number of “new” terms in the terminological field of the basic concept of “nationally oriented foreign language learning”, as well as from the normative and codification side.

The Role of the Future Civil Engineers' Motivation in the Foreign Language Learning

2015 ◽  
Vol 725-726 ◽  
pp. 1646-1652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Kukushkina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Technical Students ◽  
The Future ◽  
Civil Engineers

The article is dedicated to the changes happening in the sphere of higher education and concerning the foreign language education of the future civil engineers. The research held studies the main motivational factors for English language learning among the students of the Institute of Civil Engineering. The conclusions made are meant to improve the system of technical students’ foreign language education .

scholarly journals QUESTIONING FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING IN ISLAMIC PRE-SCHOOL

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohmani Nur Indah
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Arabic And English ◽  
Children Education ◽  
Bilingual Learning

This paper questions the urgency of foreign language learning at early age by covering some arguments on the acquisition and bilingualism. Nowadays in Indonesia, under the interest of education, bilingual learning is undertaken by adopting the theory of bilingual acquisition referring to Chomsky’s ideas. In fact, the foreign language learning is not always in line with the principle of language acquisition especially for the early age children. The globalization era requires foreign language mastery so that for many institutions of children education have got the bilingual learning. As the example, some of Islamic educational institutions at the level of playgroup have applied the instruction in English and teaching Arabic words, by considering that the earlier foreign language learning is the better, and the fact that the golden age of brain development occurs at the first five years. This needs to be analyzed further, because there is also important task to have mother tongue language acquisition. For the community of multilingual such as in Indonesia, the acquisition of many languages is unavoidable. Therefore, parents are faced with two choices: To prior the mother tongue and bahasa Indonesia as second language or encourage the bilingual learning of Arabic and English.

Use of Smartphones for Self-Regulated Foreign Language Learning Activities

2020 ◽  
pp. 204-223
Author(s):  
Violeta Jurkovič
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
English Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Mobile Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition

Smartphones can significantly affect the development of foreign languages in two distinct ways. Firstly, online informal learning of languages may result in naturalistic foreign language acquisition while mobile assisted language learning implies the use of smartphones following a conscious decision to engage in language learning activities that would result in the improvement of one's language competence. Based on quantitative and qualitative methodology applied on a sample of undergraduate students in Slovenia, the main objective of this chapter is to explore the use of smartphones for self-regulated English language learning activities beyond the language classroom.

scholarly journals English Language Teaching within the New Educational Policy of Turkey: Views of Stakeholders

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esim Gursoy ◽  
Sule C. Korkmaz ◽  
Ebru A. Damar
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Second Grade

Teaching English to young learners has gained speed in the past twenty years. Many countries in Europe are offering English at the primary level as advised by the EU. The efforts to lower the age for foreign language learning have echoed in countries in Asia as well. Turkey as one of these countries has changed its educational policy in 2012 and launched the new English Language Teaching Program for grades 2-8 in 2013. Along with many changes, the new system offers EFL in the second grade. The present study not only aims to investigate the views of prospective ELT teachers towards this change, but also to compare their views with those of trainers, and English teachers who were investigated in the earlier phases of the study. The results indicate that although all three groups of participants favor an earlier start in foreign language education, there are significant differences between groups in terms of the appropriate starting time and teaching methodologies used. Teachers were indecisive as they favored both the first and second tiers to introduce a foreign language. The results have implications for policy makers, teachers, teacher trainers, and prospective teachers.

Multilingual learners and foreign language acquisition: Insights into the effects of prior linguistic knowledge

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anahí Alba de la Fuente ◽  
Hugues Lacroix
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Foreign Language Classrooms

AbstractIn foreign language classrooms we often find that, in addition to their mother tongue (L1), learners already speak – or are learning – at least one other language. As a result, they already have an array of linguistic and cognitive skills that may prove very useful if they are adequately exploited during the language learning process. However, in contrast with the growing interest displayed by researchers in the processes involved in the acquisition of a third or subsequent language (e.g.

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