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21 produkter
Del 12 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Exploring Translation in Language Learning
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
932 kr
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This book explores the functions and potential of translation in language learning. It demonstrates that despite its changing fortunes in the history of foreign language teaching, translation has a prominent part to play both in the L2 classroom and beyond. As a cognitive process and a quintessential communicative activity, it not only boosts the learner’s bilingual and bicultural competence, but also promotes and accelerates the development of the skill of translation. Considering its diverse educational assets as well as the results of a research survey presented in this book, the author argues that translation practice should become an integral element of contemporary foreign language education.
Del 2 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Educational Potential of Texts of Culture in Teaching English to Senior Secondary School Students
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
568 kr
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This book addresses the issue of using texts of culture in the EFL classroom. It analyzes some of the common problems observed in the teaching of English to senior secondary schools students, particularly in the context of the school leaving examination. It offers a discussion of the role of English language education in the school curriculum and stresses the importance of using texts with cognitive appeal at lessons. It presents the impact of literature, films and songs on the student’s overall development and a set of criteria for text selection. It also investigates the English teacher’s role in exploiting the educational potential of culture texts and proposes a way of integrating them with a system of preparation for the school leaving examination in English.
Del 3 - Gdansk Studies in Language
General Education and Language Teaching Methodology
The Gdańsk School of ELT
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
646 kr
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This book presents a selection of papers on teaching English as a foreign language and the role of language education in human development. As thinking skills rely on language, language education should exceed utilitarian and everyday communicative needs and should be the basis for developing other school subjects. The book provides practical suggestions for language teaching, for the development of logical thinking and the understanding of the linguistic relationship between the first and the second languages in a historical perspective.
Del 1 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Teaching English Pronunciation at the Secondary School Level
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
640 kr
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This book aims to aid English teachers at the junior and senior secondary school levels in teaching pronunciation within a regular EFL syllabus. It presents such a way of incorporating the phonetic and lexical components so as to facilitate students’ acquisition of a standard phonetic system and to prevent them from forming habitual mistakes in individual words. It highlights key areas of the English phonetic system and provides examples of strategies how to use a course-book for the sake of teaching pronunciation. The discussion of teaching the phonetic system relies on the comparison between its conscious and unconscious acquisition. Teaching individual vocabulary items (especially reversing habitual mispronunciations) is analysed through contrasting mental and behavioural learning.
Del 10 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Language Education
Controversies, Observations and Proposals
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
619 kr
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This collection of papers explores various issues in English language teaching in Poland, mainly at the secondary and tertiary levels. The topics include Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and e-learning. The contributions also deal with teaching public speaking, pronunciation and writing. The contributors explore language education from the perspective of cognitive linguistics and propose solutions concerning English for Specific Purposes (Technical Writing in English and Maritime English) as well. The book also investigates teaching not only languages but also, inter alia, geography and linguistics, concentrating on the use of metaphors, prototypes and cognitive models.
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Attitudes to Standard British English and Standard Polish
A Study in Normative Linguistics and Comparative Sociolinguistics
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
904 kr
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The book provides a new insight into English-Polish comparative sociolinguistics by comparing and contrasting the attitudes of young adult native speakers of British English and Polish towards the standard varieties of their mother tongues. The author reviews the Anglophone and Polish approaches to standard dialects and language standardization, integrating sociolinguistics, normative linguistics and prescriptivism. The core of the work presents and analyses the results of a questionnaire-based study of language attitudes conducted at several Polish and British universities. In conclusion, the author places the two groups of informants on a spectrum of language attitudes ranging from purism to tolerance of non-standard varieties.
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Early Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Parents’ and Caregivers’ Attitudes and Observations
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
736 kr
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The author investigates the development of children raised bilingually or multilingually. Parents and caregivers completed a questionnaire, providing information on 36 children growing up with two or more languages. Their responses indicate that bilingual and multilingual children usually develop as well as their monolingual peers, and sometimes even better. Some drawbacks of early bilingualism or multilingualism, such as a slight delay in the onset of speech production or asymmetrical language competences, are compensated for by several benefits of early acquisition of two or more mother tongues and early contacts with two or more cultures.
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Monolingualism – Bilingualism – Multilingualism
The Teacher's Perspective
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
620 kr
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The book brings together sociolinguistic, neurolinguistic, and educational perspectives on language acquisition and learning in the classroom and at home. First and second language acquisition studies, classroom research findings, Polish, European and international legislation, as well as statistical reports on foreign language learning and teaching show how learners proceed from monolingual to bilingual or plurilingual competence. The book provides an overview of the major issues in the field from the teacher’s perspective, equipping teachers with theoretical underpinnings related to language education, and inviting reflection on individual choices in promoting bi- and multilingualism.
Del 11 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Metaphors Used on Polish and American Internet Forums for Mothers
A Comparative Analysis
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
660 kr
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This study analyzes the use of conceptual metaphors on Polish and American internet forums for mothers. In order to achieve these objectives, the author compiled a corpus consisting of ten thousand posts from Polish internet forums and ten thousand posts from American ones. The topics of threads were various, ranging from giving advice on breastfeeding to sex during pregnancy. The study contributes to a better understanding of online discussions – this issue has not been frequently investigated, especially from a comparative perspective.
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Norm-Focused and Culture-Related Inquiries in Translation Research
Selected Papers of the CETRA Research Summer School 2014
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
726 kr
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This volume collects selected papers written by young translation scholars who were CETRA 2014 participants. This book analyses the heterogeneity of translational norms, diversity of cultures and the challenges of intercultural transfer. The authors analyze a wide array of source texts, from the translations of contemporary prose and audiovisual products into Brazilian, Japanese and Swedish, to renderings of texts more distant in time, such as the Bible and «Golestân» written in medieval Persian. The book also concentrates on selected meta-level issues, such as the integrity of the discipline and its language, as well as the development of translation competence. The norm-focused and culture-related framework offers considerable research potential for Translation Studies.
Del 9 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Reconsidering Early Bilingualism
A Corpus-Based Study of Polish Migrant Children in the United Kingdom
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
868 kr
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This book investigates the language of Polish-English bilingual children raised in the United Kingdom and their Polish monolingual counterparts. It exemplifies the lexico-grammatical knowledge of both groups and uses corpus-based grammatical inference in order to establish the source of the impediment of the minority language of the bilingual group. The author applies the methodology of corpus linguistics and narrative analysis to study the language of young bilinguals. He presupposes the caveat that a child-type competence exists and can be contrasted with an adult-type competence. He uses a variety of corpus frequency measures to compare the specific stylometric features of bilingual child narratives and their monolingual counterparts. The book focuses on how bilingual and monolingual language differs in areas such as the lexicon, morphosyntax, and semantics.
Del 13 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Happening in Education – Theoretical Issues
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
685 kr
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The book explores possibilities for happening in education. It outlines characteristics for happening which are viewed in relation to educational discourses to determine how learners and teachers might be involved. In connection with this, the author considers critical pedagogy, teaching as a liminal practice, creative pedagogy and multiple intelligences. The book also provides details of a participatory research strategy, based upon bricolage and the rhizome, implemented for an inquiry into happening and EFL teaching in a Polish school. The author suggests there may be resistance to the use of happening in schools due to the dominance of transmission-based teaching and unfavourable attitudes towards creativity.
Del 18 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Happening in Education – An Empirical Study
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
597 kr
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The book describes an empirical study which inquired into the involvement of secondary school learners in the planning, preparation and enactment of two happenings. The study took the form of particpatory action research and used a data collection strategy based upon bricolage and the rhizome. Analysis was made of photographs, artefacts and posts from a blog, resulting from happening project sessions. Data was also gathered using auto-narrative, autobiographical interviews and group discussions. The data was interpreted in connection with educational discourses: critical pedagogy, teaching as a liminal practice and creative pedagogy. The research showed the learners were personally and actively involved in the happening project in contrast to what normally occurred in school lessons.
Del 14 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Design and Implementation of Blended Language Courses in Tertiary Education
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
780 kr
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The book proposes a comprehensive framework for blended language course design. It builds extensively on existing literature on the subject and draws from empirical research presented therein. The framework will be of help for blended language course authors and designers, as well as publishers, heads of studies, teacher trainers, decision makers at all levels and also language teachers.
Del 16 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Culture of Language Education. Foreign Language Teaching in Diverse Instructional Contexts
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
767 kr
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The book aims to demonstrate the diverse shapes that foreign language teaching and learning can have in various educational contexts, in terms of age groups (children, adolescents and adults), learning purposes (general language instruction vs. language for specific purposes) and instructional paradigms (language-oriented, interaction-oriented and post-method approaches). Special attention is paid to such key concepts in language teaching as motivation, auto-nomy, evaluation and assessment. This book tries to merge the macroperspec-tive, founded on such aspects of language instruction as defining competence, setting aims and objectives, developing curricula, planning lessons and evaluating learners’ performance in general terms, with the microperspective of Poland as a place in which language instruction is run and whose specific problems are to be solved.
Del 15 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Methodology for the Natural Acquisition of Second Languages
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
527 kr
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This book presents a new methodology for facilitating the acquisition of second languages in a natural way. This methodology aims to facilitate the acquisition of a second language in the same way that a child acquires his mother tongue, taking into account the characteristics of the environment of the acquisition of an L2, which in most cases is the classroom.These pedagogic principles have been obtained through a detailed study of infant and children’s developmental psychology and the infant-directed speech (IDS), also known as Motherese.The book also provides with the main criticism different methods and approaches had had over the years and explains why this method overcomes these criticisms to teach a second language effectively
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Constitutive Rhetoric of 20th Century Anglo-Saxon Feminism
The Role of the Discourse and its Strategies in the Reproduction of Social Reality and Power
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
505 kr
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This book focuses on the constitutive function of feminist rhetoric, i.e. the process of creating and justifying the movement’s existence and the role of power. Feminism, like other ideologies, can often exist rhetorically only in opposition to or at war with something that constitutes a vital ideograph of the movement. How this enemy is created and fought is fundamental for the constitutive feminist rhetoric. The enemy is inseparable to the concept of power and dominance, the latter being a key tool of mental control, which creates possibilities for changing the existing reality or establishing an alternative one. Feminist rhetoric is often based on opposition – a war against something, and (re)constructing an alternative reality on the victory – in the opposition to that enemy.
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Cultural and Social Diversity in Language Teacher Education
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
720 kr
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The aim of the present book is to examine the social and cultural diversity of language teacher education, providing a unified account of highly diversified teacher development and appraisal realities across sociocultural contexts. We will strive to make an overview of a wide range of issues related to teacher development approaches and models, teacher competences, adopted roles, stressors and motivators, teacher appraisal systems, professional examinations and certifications as well as digital opportunities for teacher development. All of these concepts will be discussed in a wide social and cultural context, trying to bring examples from numerous countries.
Del 20 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Teaching English Phrasal Verbs at the Upper-intermediate Level
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
538 kr
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This book offers an in-depth analysis of the challenges of teaching and learning phrasal verbs, exploring their complexities and the most effective methods for instruction. It examines the intricacies of these multi-word verbs, the difficulties learners encounter in mastering them, and their preferences for teaching approaches.In addition to discussing the nature of phrasal verbs, the book investigates pedagogical strategies, highlighting how educators introduce and reinforce them in the classroom. By integrating theoretical perspectives with empirical research, it provides valuable insights for teachers, curriculum designers, and language learners. Offering a bridge between theory and practice, this book presents strategies to enhance the teaching and acquisition of phrasal verbs.
Del 21 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Circumlocution in Tok Pisin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
648 kr
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This book explores circumlocutions by analyzing a corpus of newspaper texts from Wantok Niuspepa, revealing how they function, evolve, and reflect the Melanesian worldview. Examining 351 frequently occurring circumlocutions, the study uncovers their grammatical patterns, semantic categories and metaphorical foundations. Borrowings from English, Tolai, Fijian and Samoan present in circumlocutions highlight the interplay between language, culture and history. Through metonymy and metaphor, Tok Pisin circumlocutions encapsulate emotions, social values and indigenous perspectives. This book emphasizes the role of circumlocution in Tok Pisin and its significance in shaping linguistic and cultural identity.
Del 4 - Gdansk Studies in Language
Insights into Technology Enhanced Language Pedagogy
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
500 kr
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The new media have long become an essential part of the foreign language classroom, and computer enhanced language pedagogy is now becoming a standard in schools. What follows is a growing interest in the research into the effectiveness of such a practice as well as building bridges between the new media and traditional language teaching methodology. Insights into Technology Enhanced Language Pedagogy does that by bringing together the results of a number of recent studies, most of which have been carried out in Poland.