scholarly journals Polish as a Foreign Language: New Context, Regulations and Prospects

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Anna Popławska ◽  
Roman Wisz
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Public School System ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
The Status ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Collapse Of Communism

Abstract The article provides an overview of the developments in Poland after the collapse of communism in 1989 from the point of view of foreign language teaching, including a swift reorientation and transition from a public school system with Russian as the main foreign language, to a diversified language teaching market focused on teaching English and other languages. A particular stress is placed on a relatively new phenomenon, being an increased demand and new opportunities for teaching Polish as a foreign language to be further promoted as a result of anticipated amendments to legal regulations governing the status and certification of the Polish language.

scholarly journals Linguodidactic potential of concepts in teaching foreign languages to students-interpreters

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-262
Author(s):  
Svetlana S. Vasilenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
The World ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature

The paper discusses possibilities and ways of studying concepts in teaching foreign languages to students-interpreters. The author notes that modern didactic research has interdisciplinary nature, analyzes the theory of the concept from the point of view of linguistics, cultural studies and psycholinguistics. The author also notes the fact of creation of linguo-conceptodidactics as a new scientific direction. The paper presents a linguodidactic understanding of the concept, analyzes its structure and semantic content. The author describes in detail the process of foreign language concepts acquisition and presents it as a sequence of several stages. The acquisition of foreign language concepts is associated with the development of concept competence. The paper notes that the acquisition of foreign language concepts should go in parallel with the acquisition of foreign language lexis. In addition, it is necessary to use authentic materials in teaching foreign languages that allows forming a conceptual picture of the world of native speakers. Acquisition of foreign language concepts is especially important for students-interpreters who study several foreign languages and are faced with the problem of translating foreign concepts and phenomena of foreign language reality. The paper presents how conceptuality can be realized in teaching foreign languages. The author gives a practical example of studying the English concept Travel, offers examples of exercises and tasks for mastering it, as well as mnemonic techniques for memorizing lexemes that represent the concept. In the paper is stressed, that the concepts should be included in the content of foreign language teaching to students-interpreters. This contributes to the development of correct ideas about foreign language reality, understanding the facts of the native and foreign language culture, i.e. cultural reflection development.

scholarly journals THE REFLECTIONS OF PRE-SERVICE EFL TEACHERS ON OVERCOMING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING ANXIETY (FLTA) DURING TEACHING PRACTICUM

2019 ◽  
pp. 389
Author(s):  
Dilek Tüfekçi Can
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Teaching Practicum ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teaching Anxiety

Whereas research on English as a Foreign Language Learning (EFLL) anxiety has been the focus of many researchers, English as a Foreign Language Teaching (EFLT) anxiety as a newly pop-up concept has gained lesser attention than EFLL. Moreover, the research on EFLL commonly focuses on the anxiety provoking factors. Yet again, there has been very limited research on how to overcome anxiety-provoking factors on both research areas. Accordingly, as this study was two of the three segments of a university-based project and the subject of anxiety-provoking factors was the issue of another study, the purpose of this study was firstly to explore how to overcome anxiety-provoking factors among pre-service EFL teachers while teaching English to young language learners at a real classroom setting as a part of teaching practicum. Secondly, this study also attempted to make a holistic classification rather than an atomistic one as it classified the findings of overcoming anxiety provoking factors into subtitles such as cognitive, affective, socio-cultural resolutions and some other official resolutions. In the study, 25 EFL pre-service teachers at Balikesir University were the sample group. The qualitative data was collected through background questionnaires, interviews and reflections. The study concluded that pre-service EFL teachers revealed their reflections on how to overcome anxiety-provoking factors as they experienced Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety (FLTA) whilst practicing teaching English to young language learners during teaching practicum courses. Some practical recommendations were given at the end of the study. 

scholarly journals Means of Foreign Language Teaching during Covid-19 Pandemic in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Nataliia VENZHYNOVYCH ◽  
Mykhaylo POLUZHYN ◽  
Veronika BANYOI ◽  
Olesya KHARKIVSKA
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Early Spring ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Observation Process ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
National University

The article deals with the description and analysis of the most important methods of foreign language teaching. The authors describe teaching English in Ukraine during the global pandemic caused by the spread of coronavirus disease Covid-19 in early spring 2020. The study aims at reviewing the most important works of Ukrainian and foreign scholars. They describe the most modern methods of teaching English in higher educational institutions of Ukraine. The scholars pay particular attention to the description of the latest English teaching methods, which they use at Uzhhorod National University. The observation process allowed us to summarize information about the features of distance learning at Uzhhorod National University. Analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, abstraction generalization, and the descriptive method are applied. The study found out the educational process has been reformed in Ukrainian universities by European quality requirements for education: informatization-globalization of academic space, integration of functions in modern education, establishing Ukrainian universities cooperation with European and Eastern educational institutions in the field of education and research as well as changes in the educational process associated with the rapid spread of Covid-19, which forced the entire civilized world to seek new types of learning, new methods, and tools. During the pandemic, it is vital to provide personality-oriented education. This knowledge provides optimal conditions for the harmonious development of each student. Further research into the latest computer technologies for foreign language teaching may be a prospect.

scholarly journals Mastering Teaching English For Young Learners

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Maskhurin Fajarina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Older Learners ◽  
Suitable Material ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Teaching Language

Teaching language to old learners is different from teaching language to young learners. Young learners have certain characteristics which are different from old learners so those influence their acquiring a foreign language. Teaching foreign language is easy if we understand the rules well. The rules are understanding characteristics of our students, mastering some suitable methods, and choosing suitable material. Young learners have certain characteristic distinguishing to the older learners. Related to the certain characteristics, the teacher must understand to differentiate the method they use in teaching English as a foreign language to the young learners. To empower the teaching, the teacher must master the material well

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

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Savchenko
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Poetic Texts

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.

POLITICAL EDUCATION AS A NECESSARY PART OF AN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Polcicova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
National Level ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Education ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Noticeable Increase

"There is currently a noticeable increase in extremism, populism, hatred and intolerance in all EU countries, which are evoked by several political conflicts, social events (critical situation in Afghanistan, response to the COVID pandemic, conflict in Ukraine, migration from third countries etc.). Political education as an integral part of the educational process in schools, not only at the national level, we therefore naturally consider it one of the tools for promoting democratic tools in society. We also consider foreign language teaching to be one of the tools of political education. Within it, on the example of learning about important political events, which at the same time shaped the moral democratic values of the bearers of a given language, we can mediate a critical analysis of the way of life in a given developmental stage of society. The aim of our paper is to present the idea of the educational process as a driving force for the spread of democratic values on the example of foreign language teaching at our faculty. From the point of view of theoretical backgrounds, we define the very concept of political education on the example of several experts in the field of sociology, politics and education. In order to find out the current state of the concept of political education in the educational process at national and transnational level, we analyze the individual documents of the European Union. Throughout the post, we mainly use qualitative data, such as thematic analysis, to interpret patterns and meanings in the data and descriptive data."

scholarly journals Intercultural Approach in Foreign Language Teaching and Formation of Cultural Mediators: A Corpus Analysis of the Adjective polite in French and Polish

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Dryjańska
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
French Language ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Complex Approach ◽  
Cultural Mediators ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Language Corpus

This study aims to analyse the notion of politeness through the collocations of the adjective polite and its Polish equivalents, i.e. grzeczny and uprzejmy, chosen as cultural keywords in order to verify and expand the conclusions of my previous research on the noun politeness. The study has a double perspective. It is based on a linguistic corpus-based analysis of French politeness in a contrastive approach to French and Polish data. Also, the study considers ways of integrating such data into foreign language teaching. The research is carried out on three corpora: the French language corpus Frantext, the National Polish Language Corpus (NKJP) and the Leipzig Corpora Collection. The study includes the analysis of frequency classes of the three words and their most frequent collocations identified on the basis of different measures of association between co-occurring words. By integrating the results of this linguistic approach into language teaching, it is possible to clarify certain semantic subtleties of the words polite, grzeczny and uprzejmy and explain to the learners why these words are not perfect equivalents, or how linguistic analysis reveals cultural differences. Complex approach promoted in this paper may contribute to the development of the intercultural awareness in foreign language teaching and cultural mediation.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Using Games for Developing Young Learners’ Grammar Competence

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Polona Lilić ◽  
Silva Bratoz
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Grammar Teaching ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Teaching Grammar ◽  
Meaningful Communication

The main aim of this paper is to explore the effectiveness of using games in teaching English grammar to young learners. Today there is an overall agreement among researchers in foreign language teaching and language acquisition that grammar should be taught at all levels of instruction, including to young learners, bearing in mind that it should be considered in the context of meaningful communication. The paper first presents a review of the literature in the area of grammar teaching and using games for language teaching purposes. The second part presents the results of an experimental study aimed at testing the hypothesis that activities based on grammar games are a more efficient strategy for teaching grammar than more traditional ELT activities. The results of the experiment prove the efficacy of using grammar games in teaching grammar to young learners.

scholarly journals MOTIVATION AS A FACTOR OF INFLuENCE ON THE SuCCESS OF FOREIGN LANGuAGE TEACHING OF POSTGRAduATES IN MEdICAL SCHOOLS

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-109
Author(s):  
K I Kubacheva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Postgraduate Teaching ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
The Status ◽  
Factor Of Influence

The article is devoted to investigation of the motivation in learning a foreign language by postgrad- uates in the medical school. Motivation is regarded by the author as a factor of influence on the success of the professional foreign language teaching. The paper presents a theoretical analysis of experimental studies of postgraduate teaching issues such as: individual personality traits, the status in the group, positive or negative experience of learning a foreign language, etc. This article contains the material on the results of the postgraduate students’ survey on issues related to the objectives of learning a foreign language, its application possibilities in practical professional work and so on.

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