scholarly journals Sources of Expanding of the Youth Jargon in Ukrainian at the Beginning of the XXI Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Styshov
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Vocational Schools ◽  
Loan Words ◽  
Effective Source

The article focuses on one of the important layers of the lexical system of the national Ukrainian language at the beginning of the XXI century, namely the youth jargon neologisms. The recording of the spoken language of young people (schoolchildren, students of vocational schools, university students, cadets, etc.), as well as texts from the Internet and contemporary Ukrainian journalism and fiction, served as the material of the present study. The body of newly formed slang words under analysis comprises more than 200 units. The author defines and analyses the main sources of the mentioned units’ enrichment. The most effective among them is the word formation on the basis of specific and borrowed derivative sources. It has been shown that within the analyzed period the youth jargon neologisms are mostly enriched by nouns-neologisms formed, in particular, by means of suffixation, univerbalization, abbreviation, compounding, lexico-semantic derivation or without any affixes at all. Newly formed adjectives, verbs and adverbs, being not numerous in comparison with nouns-sociolects of youth, are coined primarily by suffixation. Another effective source of the youth social dialect enrichment is their direct entry into Ukrainian from foreign languages, such as English, Russian, German, Spanish, French, and Chinese. Among these new borrowings, English loan words prevail. Besides, a certain part of the youth neologisms has penetrated into speech of the young people from other jargons, such as computer, sports, automobile jargons. Some new units of the analyzed sociolect have come into use (mainly with a change in semantics) from a less effective source, i.e. a criminal argot.

scholarly journals Personality Traits and Motivation as Factors Associated with Symptoms of Problematic Binge-Watching

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5810
Author(s):  
Jolanta Starosta ◽  
Bernadetta Izydorczyk ◽  
Małgorzata Dobrowolska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Internet Streaming ◽  
New Form

Advance in new technologies has created a new form of consuming television. Binge-watching can be highly entertaining behavior, but its excessive forms could lead to development of risk of addiction. The aim of the study was to identify psychological factors associated with symptoms of problematic binge-watching and to establish on what devices and platforms young people tend to binge-watch. The results of the study indicate that Polish university students usually binge-watch on laptops and smartphones by using the Internet—streaming platforms or other websites. Low Conscientiousness was the strongest variable related to symptoms of binge-watching from all the personality traits. Furthermore, results show that there is a significant relationship between low Agreeableness, low Emotional Stability, low Intellect and problematic binge-watching. Moreover, escape motivation was the strongest factor from all motivational variables.

scholarly journals The use of a «flipped classroom» approach in teaching foreign languages to technical university students

2021 ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
N. Saienko
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Technology Learning ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Advance Student ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Unlimited Access

With the development of modern technologies, a flipped classroom approach is gaining popularity. The idea of «flipped classroom» approach is that the main stages of the teaching and learning process, such as classroom activities and homework, change places. It means that the theoretical material is studied by students on their own by watching videos and listening to audio lectures recorded by the teacher, or preformed materials downloaded from websites on the Internet, while in the classroom the students are involved in fulfilling practical tasks and discussion of problematic issues. Goal. The purpose of the article is to determine the potential of the flipped classroom approach in teaching foreign languages to university students. Methodology. The flipped classroom approach assumes that students have an unlimited access to electronic resources. There are the following advantages of the technology: learning at one’s own pace, advance student preparation, overcoming the limitations of class time, increasing the participation in the classroom activities. Among the disadvantages are students’ being lack of equipment and unlimited access to the Internet resources. Another disadvantage of the technology is an extra workload on teachers who have to develop, record and upload lectures, which take time and skill, as well as carefully integrate them into the classroom work. Results. The data of the university students’ interview on the benefits and disadvantages of the approach are given which reveal conflicting points of view though the majority mentioned the availability of the e-learning materials always at hand as the key benefit of the approach. Originality of the study is the revealing of the potential of the flipped classroom approach in teaching foreign languages to university students, emphasizing its pros and cons, exploring the ways of its further development. Practical value. Despite some of its disadvantages the technology can be widely used in teaching foreign languages, especially in the frames of distance learning as it gives the students an opportunity of learning languages on their own with the teacher’ role of being the facilitator.

scholarly journals Weblog “How Do I Breathe?”—Design and View Statistics

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (01) ◽  
pp. 041-049
Author(s):  
Gabriele de Luccas ◽  
Giédre Berretin-Felix ◽  
Ana Fukushiro
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mouth Breathing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
Vital Functions ◽  
Analysis Design

Introduction Breathing is one of the vital functions of the body and is essential for the maintenance of life. Preventive measures for respiratory disorders can be used by the population, as well as early self-diagnosis and immediate search for treatment based on knowledge of this subject. Objective this study developed a weblog on the breathing function targeting young people and analyzed the statistical data of views until the present moment. Methods The weblog was developed, and the stages of analysis, design, development and implementation were followed. All texts were evaluated by the Flesch Reading Index to verify the language, and the statistical data were analyzed by the number of views, countries with the highest number of views, search terms used, most viewed pages and number of comments on the blog. Results Issues related to the breathing function and those most cited in the literature were selected. The blog was structured using pages with content and curiosities, with texts with minimum readability of 50%, and was made available on the internet by means of the Wordpress tool. The statistics showed an increase in the number of visits after August 2015; the countries with the highest number of views were Brazil, United States and Portugal; the search terms used were unknown or related to mouth breathing; the most viewed pages related to mouth breathing and the comments addressed questions on mouth breathing, reports and compliments. Conclusion The blog “How do I breathe?,” aimed at young people and containing information about the breathing function, was developed and is available on the internet at the address: https://comoeurespiro.wordpress.com.

scholarly journals Why Are Turkish University Students Addicted to the Internet? A Moderated Mediation Model

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 953
Author(s):  
Orhan Koçak ◽  
İlayda Yılmaz ◽  
Mustafa Z. Younis
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Turkish University Students ◽  
The Impact

Internet addiction has become a significant problem that primarily affects young people. It has an essential effect on the individual’s self-perception and assessment of their competencies. This study aimed to reveal whether there is a significant relationship between the level of internet addiction of university students and their age and self-esteem. For this purpose, internet addiction and self-esteem scales were used in addition to questions such as age, gender, the purpose of internet use, and internet daily usage time. We used a quantitative research method to obtain cross-sectional data from 400 Turkish young people using online surveys. Correlation, regression, mediation, and moderation analyses were performed using SPSS and the PROCESS macro plugin for data analysis. Internet addiction was significantly associated with self-esteem, gender, age, and daily internet usage. In addition, we discovered that self-esteem and daily usage time played a mediation role in the effect of the age variable on internet addiction. Moreover, the moderation roles of social networks, gender, and location in the impact of self-esteem on internet addiction were determined. With this study, we understood that as age increases, self-esteem triggers the decrease of internet addiction. In this sense, policies should be developed to increase self-esteem among young people to ensure the conscious use of the internet.

scholarly journals Communication in a Multicultural Virtual Environment for Modern Slovak Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 770-784
Author(s):  
Hedviga Tkáčová ◽  
Roman Králik
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
The Difference

The necessity of establishing intercultural communication skills in children and young people is growing in the modern world. Expanding, extending the openness and accessibility of the Internet area, where diverse people with varied ideas, interests, and aspirations meet, plays a significant role in this process. Todays youth are aptly referred to as digital aborigines, as they navigate the multicultural internet environment with ease, actively using modern technology that have already become a part of their daily lives. The goal of this study is to investigate the setting of an online multicultural environment from the perspective of Slovak university students, as well as to identify and analyze current problems that university students can see in online discussions about other cultures. A structured interview was used as the primary research approach. The results provide Slovak students perspective on the six most common topics that resonate in connection with different cultures on the current Internet: (1) concerns about ones own safety due to differences of others; (2) misinformation on the Internet regarding the difference of others; (3) cognitive prejudice; (4) religious prejudices; (5) exaggeration; and (6) influencing audience emotions. This paper holds the view that modern young people should develop not only the ability to navigate in virtual reality, but also make daily personal efforts to overcome personal barriers and develop intercultural media literacy, which the authors define as the ability to acquire, in addition to digital competencies, intercultural understanding skills and apply these skills in practice in the process of communication in the Internet environment.

scholarly journals Tourism-themed internet portals – are new media creating a new tourist? A case study of Polish students

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (35) ◽  
pp. 35-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Jażdżewska ◽  
Anna Jagnuszewska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Media ◽  
Internet Portals

Abstract Internet media have an influence on many tourism-related issues. This article presents the results of research into the role of tourism-themed portals in the trips taken by Polish university students between 2010 and 2012. The research sought to answer the following questions: whether tourism-related internet media have an influence on the students’ behaviour before, during the trip and when they arrive at their destination; how often they are used by the respondents during their trips; and whether Polish students actively participate in internet media by voicing their opinions. As it appears, internet media serve as one of the “travel companions” for young people. They are used when preparing the trip, the vast majority “take them” with them and check them during the trip, while almost half of them check them on vacation, e.g. to share their experience over the internet.

FRENCH NEOLOGISMS IN LAROUSSE DICTIONARY OF 2018 AND 2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia Wahyu Julisdianti ◽  
Danny Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
French Language ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Base Word ◽  
Proper Noun ◽  
New Words ◽  
Loan Words ◽  
Combination Of Theories ◽  
Morphological Approach

Larousse is one of the most important and widely used French-language dictionaries. Larousse dictionary annually releases its new edition with the addition of on average 150 new words due to the appearance of new words, known as the phenomenon of neologism. The aim of this study is to identify how new words or neologisms in the Larousse dictionary edition of 2018 and 2019 were formed using a morphological approach. The analysis essentially uses the combination of theories of Lehmann & Martin-Berthet (1999) and Grevisse, M., & Goosse, A. (2007) on four types of word formation: derivation, composition, siglaison (acronym), and troncation (clipping). Neologisms are often influenced by foreign languages, therefore additional theory on borrowing words from other languages and lending factors introduced by Haspelmath & Tadmor (2009) is also used. Data was collected from Larousse dictionary’s digital press kit, served to promote their latest edition, and contains the new words added in the dictionary. The study indicates that the new words in the Larousse edition of 2018 and 2019 can be categorized into two groups: (1) the first group of neologisms that are formed by the process of word-formation and (2) the neologisms that are formed through loan words. Composition dominates the process of neologisms, followed by derivation. This relates to the difficulty of composition’s formation that is considered less complicated in terms of grammar compared with derivation. Then, clipping is only found in the second group of new words. An interesting finding is that based on data analysis there is a type of word formation with nom propre (proper noun) as a base word which has not been discussed by Lehmann & Martin-Berthet or Grevisse in their theory.

Teacher's authority in the opinion of students of a high school (based on own research)

2018 ◽  
Vol XIV ◽  
pp. 251-265
Author(s):  
Anna Rajchel
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Vocational Schools ◽  
School Based ◽  
The People

When choosing a school, young people check whether a given entity implements educational projects, European programmes, whether it has access to the Internet, interactive boards, e-registers. They checks exam results or, particularly in the case of vocational schools, how school-leavers cope on the labour market. But in the first place, school is made of people, those who learn and those who pass knowledge. The aim of the article is an attempt to answer the question whether in the contemporary Polish high school one can talk about authorities. How do teenagers understand this term and do they identify authority with the place and the people they meet every day? Can, according to young people, a teacher be an authority and what conditions he or she should meet to be one? The research tool used in the work is an anonymous survey conducted among students of one of high school in Opole.

scholarly journals A Study about Internet Addiction of University Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerasioti Kassiani ◽  
Pliakou Evanthia ◽  
Vlachou Rafailia-Iro ◽  
Aspridis M. George ◽  
Blanas Nikolaos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Modern Form

Abstract Internet addiction is the most modern form of addiction and belongs to behavioral addictions. The term appeared in 1996 and spread very quickly all over the world, especially among teenagers and young people. Many users escape the formal use of the Internet and easily lose control of the situation. The article aims to deal with the university students’ addiction to Internet and social media. It is a fact that most young people spend valuable time on the Internet without knowing the negative impact this engagement may have. For this purpose, a questionnaire based on the Internet Addiction Test was formulated, in order to answer a number of questions about Internet addiction, the consequences and causes of this phenomenon, the ways of dealing with the problem, the indications (information) and statistical data available for Greece, etc. The results obtained will be very useful and can be used by researchers to shape the profile of new and future uses, regarding the impact of internet use on professional life and development of young people, but also in dealing with social phenomena and adaptation problems.

scholarly journals Awareness, Access and Use of Internet Self-Help Websites for Depression by University Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. e48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordana Culjak ◽  
Nick Kowalenko ◽  
Christopher Tennant
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The Internet ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Browsing Behavior ◽  
Use Of Internet

Background University students have a higher prevalence rate of depression than the average 18 to 24 year old. Internet self-help has been demonstrated to be effective in decreasing self-rated measures of depression in this population, so it is important to explore the awareness, access and use of such self-help resources in this population. Objective The objective of this study is to explore university students’ awareness, access and use of Internet self-help websites for depression and related problems. Methods A total of 2691 university students were surveyed at 3 time points. Results When asked about browsing behavior, 69.6% (1494/2146) of students reported using the Internet for entertainment. Most students were not familiar with self-help websites for emotional health, although this awareness increased as they completed further assessments. Most students considered user-friendliness, content and interactivity as very important in the design of a self-help website. After being exposed to a self-help website, more students reported visiting websites for emotional health than those who had not been exposed. Conclusions More students reported visiting self-help websites after becoming aware of such resources. Increased awareness of depression and related treatment resources may increase use of such resources. It is important to increase public awareness with the aim of increasing access to targeted strategies for young people.

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