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The completion of undergraduate L2 studies traditionally entails preparation of a BA dissertation on a selected topic. Since Polish ministerial regulations allow interpretations, the academic community has been electrified by the possibility of alternative solutions. The ensuing discussions result in emerging proposals to substitute the traditional paper with an essay form, or with total resignation from the written part in favor of a viva. This article considers the problem with regard to the idea of key competences for lifelong learning, as defined by The European Commission, which highlight the need for practicality. Analysis of the process of writing a dissertation and its evaluation helps to draw conclusions for possible improvements.
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While teacher feedback has got a long established tradition in pedagogic or educational discourse as a form of reflection, it has to be noticed by students to result in raised awareness. Apprehension of teacher feedback depends on its various characteristics such as salience, length, complexity or linguistic features (Swain, 2006a). Thereby its value may be too much engrained in the positivist paradigm of knowledge and language. Sociocultural approaches to learning, resting firmly on constructivist theories of knowledge and interactive theories of language, underscore the centrality of the learner. The agency of the learner places reflection in the form of talks (Moate, 2011) or languaging (Swan, 2006a). The aim of this paper is to present a microgenetic analysis of languaging on the concept of “noticing” (Schmidt, 1990) in teacher training during a methodology class. The working hypothesis is the claim that reflection, in the form of substantiated thinking, presents a potential for developing procedural dimension of teacher language awareness.
Glottodidactica
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2023
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vol. 50
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issue 1
141-160
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The objective of the article is to analyze the attitudes of foreign language teachers towards students’ mother tongues or heritage languages, as migrant students to the city of Gdańsk, Poland, use them as a compensation strategy in formal language learning. On the basis of a survey methodology, the author will try to explore language teacher beliefs regarding the perception of the coexistence and the use of other languages (including Polish) in mainstream FL education and attempt to compile good practices in this regard, reported by the teachers surveyed. Referring to his earlier research (Lankiewicz 2013, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021), the author hypothesizes that language teachers manifesting higher levels of critical language awareness will be more prone to draw upon students’ linguistic repertoires in the education processes, while others will suppress any form of intercomprehension, code-switching or language meshing.
PL
The aim of this paper is to relate the concept of ESP to the idea of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to work out a platform for the conceptualization of academic language as a context-reduced means of communication (Bernstein, 1971; 1999). Subsequently, the concept of talk-types (Moate, 2011) will be presented as a way of counteracting language de-contextualization and engendering restructuring of knowledge and the language itself. Theoretical considerations will be supported with the presentation of research on classroom interaction. It is aimed at highlighting how expert language is mediated in content learning with types of classroom talk and how the process of languaging (Swain, 2006a) facilitates both “taming” (Lankiewicz, 2013b) of the elaborated code and acquisition of expert knowledge.
PL
This paper presents an attempt to reconsider the concept of intercultural communication and related competences taking into account the fact that intercultural contacts may be motivated by racism and xenophobia. It is the outgrowth of the RADAR project (Regulating Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Racism) funded by the European Commission1. Here, we aim to apply its findings to the context of developing politically correct pedagogical discourse among prospective foreign language teachers. Ultimately, invoking the notion of critical ecological language awareness (Lankiewicz, 2015) and metalinguistic awareness (Karpińska-Musiał, 2015), we offer to supplement the intercultural component of teacher education with the element of critical linguistics, which may help would-be teachers, in the first place, to be more aware language users as such, not to commit verbal offences, and, in the long-run, to perform the role of transformative intellectuals (Kumaravadivelu, 2012), thus contributing to the quality of life in the globalization era.
PL
We współczesnym świecie od tłumacza oczekuje się posługiwania się autentycznym językiem, takim, jaki obowiązuje w obszarze społeczno-ekonomiczno-politycznym, dla którego zamówiono usługi tłumaczeniowe. Celem tego artykułu jest podkreślenie znaczenia kształcenia w zakresie języka specjalistycznego na kierunkach translatorskich, tak by bardziej odpowiadały potrzebom rynku. Ponadto zakładając, że język specjalistyczny charakteryzuje się różnicami konceptualnymi, podkreślamy potrzebę rozwijania kompetencji przedmiotowych jako niezbędnego warunku gwarantującego dobrą jakość tłumaczenia. Dlatego też przewidujemy, iż przyszli tłumacze kształceni będą w obszarze wąskich specjalizacji, np. dokumentów państwowych, tekstów medycznych, itp. Zakładana hipoteza jest weryfikowana badaniem ankietowym, w którym studenci i praktycy werbalizują mankamenty własnej edukacji oraz artykułują swoje oczekiwania względem kształcenia translatorskiego.
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In the contemporary world the translator and interpreter is expected to be furnished with quality language skills designated by a socio-economic-political domain for which the service has been ordered. The objective of the article is to accentuate the importance of language for specific purposes in educating translators and interpreters for the market needs. Additionally, assuming that language for specific purposes is marked by conceptual differences between languages, we put forth the need for developing professional subject-matter, knowledge-based competence as a prerequisite for quality translation. Thereby, we foresee that the future of translators and interpreters’ education lies in a very narrow specialization, for example, in translating government documents, medical texts, etc. The presupposed hypothesis is verified against the survey research in which practitioners and students articulate their expectations and the shortcomings in their education.
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This paper attempts to contribute to the discussion on the use of biographical narratives in investigating FL teacher careers and bring to light their potential in teacher education, especially in the process of developing teacher identity and reflexivity. Biographical narratives provide indepth insights into individual professional careers which are viewed holistically, in the context the narrator’s life. Focused on the subjective dimensions of professional careers, narratives involve identification and in-terpretation of key events and persons in particular life stories, which stimulate the narrator’s reflexivity and enable them to find connections between episodes and make them meaningful.
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This paper attempts to contribute to the discussion on the use of biographical narratives in investigating FL teacher careers and bring to light their potential in teacher education, especially in the process of developing teacher identity and reflexivity. Biographical narratives provide indepth insights into individual professional careers which are viewed holistically, in the context the narrator’s life. Focused on the subjective dimensions of professional careers, narratives involve identification and interpretation of key events and persons in particular life stories, which stimulate the narrator’s reflexivity and enable them to find connections between episodes and make them meaningful.
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