21. Pre-service teachers' attitude towards learning and teaching English to young learnersSilva Bratož, 2015, original scientific article Abstract: Considerable attention has recently been invested into researching the influence of affective variables, such as attitudes and motivation on foreign language learning and teaching. The topic is timely and relevant especially at the time when English is being introduced as an obligatory subject in the first cycle of primary school in Slovenia. Two key issues are addressed: attitudes towards learning and teaching English as a foreign language and the profile of the young learners' language teacher. The article presents the results of a small-scale research conducted with a group of primary education students on their attitudes towards learning and teaching English. The results suggest that trainee teachers have moderately positive attitudes towards learning English but diverse attitudes towards teaching a foreign language. Keywords: English as a foreign language, pre-service teachers, attitudes, motivation, young language learners Published in RUP: 14.10.2015; Views: 3224; Downloads: 74 Link to full text |
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25. Gender difference in children's languageIrena Rošer, 2007, review article Abstract: Up to the present day the gender difference in children's language has been studied by various researchers. The amount of research done, the differences in methods used, and the contradictory results raise questions about the initial idea - Are there gender based differences in childrenćs language? If there are, how are they demonstrated and what are they? What are the best research methods? Does the gender language difference in childhood, in any way, influence language skills in adulthood? The questions being so complex, it is impossible to cover all the areas mentioned above. What I want to do in this contribution is to summarize the actual research done in this field until today. I present a few theories that have been available over the last fifty years and I have given various research models and methods in order to cover this topic. The actual results are not surprising: differences do exist and the variations are huge. However the amount of gender innateness and the social influence of gender stereotypes create difficulties in measuring separately the difference in language caused by gender. We therefore, need to go back to the original biological and social questions of what makes a male male and what makes a female female. In the same way, all the other individual differences in children are posited under the same question - Are they a part of gender difference or is gender difference only a small part of the whole individual forming his or her personality? Keywords: language, gender differences, innateness, social environment, girl's stereotypes, boy's stereotypes, language styles Published in RUP: 10.07.2015; Views: 2613; Downloads: 36 Link to full text |
26. English as a foreign language learning strategies used by croatian learnersNeala Ambrosi-Randić, Moira Kostić-Bobanović, 2008, original scientific article Abstract: In this article the authoresses explore the differences in use of language speaking strategies between successful and less successful learners in different English as a foreign language (EFL) education levels. A total of 638 Croatian learners took part in this exploratory study: 329 primary and 309 secondary school learners. All the subjects learned EFL as a compulsory school subject. The main findings suggested that successful learners reported significantly more use of memory, cognitive, metacognitive and social strategies, whereas less successful learners reported significantly more use of compensational strategies Keywords: language learning, speaking strategies, successful learners, English, foreign language Published in RUP: 10.07.2015; Views: 2407; Downloads: 33 Link to full text |
27. More language(s) - more space(s)? : reflections on the representation of heteroglossia and minority languages in the Alpe-Adria regionNada Zerzer, 2009, original scientific article Abstract: This article addresses the issue how heteroglossic people in the three regions of Carinthia, Primorska, and the Trst/Trieste region experience their multilingualism and its representations in everyday day life. The approach is transdisciplinary and includes theory and methods from fields of political theory, sociology of space, sociolinguistics, ethnography, visual cultures and multimodal discourse analysis. The research focus is on social constructions of space, created by heteroglossic people in their everyday life and by the representations of the languages in their living environment. This article wants to take a closer look at life with - or in - heteroglossia and at possible integrative handling of it Keywords: heteroglossia, public space, representation, language minorities, ethnic minorities, visual culture, geosemiotics, Alpe-Adria region Published in RUP: 10.07.2015; Views: 3139; Downloads: 34 Link to full text |
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29. Speaker diversity in the majority-minority linguistic contextConchúr Ó Giollagáin, 2011, original scientific article Keywords: sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language dynamics, linguistic networks, speech communities, speaker interaction, minorities, majorities, language contact Published in RUP: 10.07.2015; Views: 2297; Downloads: 32 Link to full text |
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