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Zum spontanen Erwerb der Grammatik des Deutschen: Das lexikalische Koncept von Clahsen

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Mecner B.

Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia

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2009

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issue 16

193-205

PL

Artykuł zawiera analizę współczesnych badań teoretycznych nad nabywaniem gramatyki języka naturalnego (biologicznego) oraz badań materiałowych nad nabywaniem gramatyki języka niemieckiego. Oprócz behawiorystycznych, konstruktywistycznych i natywistycznych podstaw teoretycznych przedstawione zostały nowsze założenia teoretyczne, m.in. „less is more hypothesis” – NEWPORT (1990) oraz model konekcjonistyczny – ELMAN (1991, 1993). Szczegółowej analizie poddano założenia Clahsena odnośnie do spontanicznego nabywania gramatyki (na przykładzie języka niemieckiego). CLAHSEN (1999) wiąże nabywanie gramatyki z nabywaniem słownictwa, przy czym morfemy gramatyczne stanowią również pewien rodzaj jednostek wyrazowych, które stosować można w kombinacjach powtarzalnych, w odróżnieniu od wyrazów jako jednostek idiosynkratycznych, które procesor językowy człowieka rejestruje w leksykonie mentalnym jako całość.

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Een alternatieve reisgids als didactische werkvorm in taalverwerving – een casestudie uit Zagreb

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Rombouts M.

Neerlandica Wratislaviensia

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2018

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vol. 28

63-77

EN

This article explores a project conducted at the Chair of Dutch Language and Cultural Studies of the University of Zagreb in the context of Dutch language acquisition. Third-year bachelor students were given the task of creating an alternative travel guide for Croatia. The educational goals of this project include an exercise in persuasive writing with stress on register and usage of various adjectives and a broader societal goal, the achievement of which was possible thanks to the fact that the students looked at a known subject from a different perspective. The context of the project is an exceedingly growing tourism sector in Croatia which can bring benefits not only to the students who can learn typical touristic jargon in Dutch but also to the country which can diversify its touristic offer. The project is embedded in the theory of persuasive writing. Ultimately, both the lecturer and the students evaluated the project and the methods used, finding them useful and repeatable.

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Intersubjektivität und Sprachverarbeitung

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Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska J.

Germanica Wratislaviensia

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2014

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vol. 139

379 - 392

EN

The aim of the paper is to point out the role of interdependencies between genetic predisposition, neurobiological systems and interpersonal relationships in the process of personal development of human beings, their behavior in general and verbal behavior in particular. The main focus is on the neurobiological mirror mechanism and on the intersubjective experience, which together contribute to the shaping of the processes of concept formation, conceptualization, verbalization of conceptualizations, language development and language processing. The author emphasizes the role of emotions and advocates an integrative view on human language faculty and language behavior.

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Consonant Clusters Across Morpheme Boundaries: Polish Morphonotactic Inventory and its Acquisition

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Zydorowicz P.

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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2010

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vol. 46

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issue 4

565-588

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Morphonotactics is a term introduced by Dressler and Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (2006) to refer to the interaction of phonotactics and morphotactics. This paper examines the acquisition of phonotactics and morphonotactics, i.e. consonant clusters occurring within morphemes and across morpheme boundaries. It is hypothesized that morphonotactic clusters will be better retained in production than lexical clusters as they carry significant morphological information. Additionally, the acquisition of consonant clusters will be investigated in terms of markedness. With respect to markedness, two hypotheses have been put forward. Firstly, less marked (preferred) sequences will emerge earlier. Secondly, preferred clusters will be retained in production better.

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An Analysis of the Higher Eductional Systems of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in Poland and China

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Bańka K. E.

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

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2017

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vol. 3

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issue 1

EN

Nowadays, we witness changing trends in terms of the interest in language learning. In Poland, more and more higher education establishments, not only public, but also private, introduce various types of majors concerning oriental languages, such as Chinese translation programmes.The aim of this paper is to compare the Chinese learning process in China and in Poland. In the first part, a comparative outline of both types of learning processes will be introduced, on the base of author’s few years of experience gained while teaching and studying in both of those countries. Furthermore, the author will investigate the results of teaching Chinese in Poland, a place of very few Chinese native speakers, as compared to teaching Chinese in the mainland of China. In the end, the proposals on what to do to improve the Chinese learning system in non-Chinese speaking countries will be introduced.

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Self-reported Difficulties in Learning English as a Second Language for Third-age Students in Poland

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Matusz Ł., Rakowska A. M.

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

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2019

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vol. 5

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issue 1

113-130

EN

The problem of teaching English to third-age students is among the issues in ELT which have gained increasing attention and interest in recent years. The aim of this paper is to identify difficulties in learning English as a foreign language reported by students taking part in language courses at third-age universities in Poland. The research is based on the questionnaire distributed among the group of 70 third-age students of English. The results show that the problems the learners report are cantered around their age- and health- related conditions, as well as their general attitudes concerning foreign language learning. It is hoped that the present study will constitute a minor contribution to the study of learning needs and expectations of senior students in Poland.

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Book review: Kurt Braunmuller

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Aronin L.

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

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2017

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vol. 3

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issue 2

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On inadequacies in transferring concepts from one to another (linguistic sub)discipline

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Dressler W. U.

Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting

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2016

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vol. 2

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issue 1

EN

The paper discusses several methodological problems in the necessary (mostly metaphorical) transfer of concepts from one discipline (or subdiscipline) into another one, especially when interdisciplinary research demands mutual understanding in terms of translation and correspondence of concepts. After differentiating between multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, the first is rejected and it is pleaded that the second and third should be combined. Several adequate and inadequate transfers of concepts into linguistics are dealt with, especially in the areas of morphology and language acquisition. Successful transfer is characterised by the formal transfer of new terms and their easy adaptation to already existing linguistic conceptions, especially between subdisciplines. Most often, further important differentiations of a concept cannot be transferred from the original discipline but must be added as enrichments within linguistics itself. This may lead to a split-up of concepts in different subdisciplines of linguistics. The concepts discussed are regression, self-organization, complexity, transparency vs. opacity, figure and ground, top-down processing, default, input, grammaticalisation.

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Fast mapping im natürlichen und gesteuerten L2-Erwerb

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Franek J.

Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia

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2013

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issue 22

253-263

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This article attempts to answer the question, whether the mechanism of fast mapping, which is characteristic for the process of first language acquisition (L1) and which is found in a process of second language acquisition (L2) in conditions similar to natural, also occurs in the process of acquiring a second language in institutionalized conditions. The article includes a brief description of the phenomenon, the description of the project carried out in a bilingual kindergarten in Altenholz and presentation of the results of the experiment conducted in a monolingual kindergarten in Szczecin among 4 and 5-year-old children learning a second language in limited input conditions. The discussion also concerns the determinants of fast mapping.

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Celem artykułu jest próba odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy mechanizm fast mapping, który jest charakterystyczny dla procesu przyswajania języka pierwszego (L1) i który jest stwierdzany w procesie przyswajania języka drugiego (L2) w warunkach zbliżonych do naturalnych, występuje także w procesie przyswajania L2 w warunkach zinstytucjonalizowanych. Artykuł zawiera krótką charakterystykę samego zjawiska, opis projektu przeprowadzonego w dwujęzycznym przedszkolu w Altenholz i prezentację wyników eksperymentu przeprowadzonego w jednojęzycznym przedszkolu w Szczecinie wśród 4- i 5-letnich dzieci uczących się języka drugiego w warunkach ograniczonego inputu. Dyskusja dotyczy także czynników warunkujących fast mapping.

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Word-based largest chunks for Agreement Groups processing: Cross-linguistic observations

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Drienkó L.

Linguistics Beyond and Within

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2020

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vol. 6

60-73

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The present study reports results from a series of computer experiments seeking to combine word-based Largest Chunk (LCh) segmentation and Agreement Groups (AG) sequence processing. The AG model is based on groups of similar utterances that enable combinatorial mapping of novel utterances. LCh segmentation is concerned with cognitive text segmentation, i.e. with detecting word boundaries in a sequence of linguistic symbols. Our observations are based on the text of Le petit prince (The little prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in three languages: French, English, and Hungarian. The data suggest that word-based LCh segmentation is not very efficient with respect to utterance boundaries, however, it can provide useful word combinations for AG processing. Typological differences between the languages are also reflected in the results.

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Neurośrodowiskowe przyczyny opóźnionego rozwoju mowy w wieku niemowlęcym

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Cieszyńska-Rożek J.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza

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2022

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vol. 29

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issue 1

117-196

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The article presents the results of the experimental studies conducted so far on the devel- opment of infants’ primary communicative abilities, carried out in vivo. The findings of neurobiologists on the formation of the structures of the social brain not only influ- ence the process of early diagnosis of developmental disorders, but also allow for the construction of principles of early intervention. The article discusses the results of our own study of thirteen infants born in Poland and abroad, conducted by means of par- ticipant observation (online). The aim was to reveal the disturbances in shaping social responses in a lockdown situation and to define a pattern for preventive interventions.

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Rola środowiska pozaszkolnego w procesie akwizycji języka… polskiego przez dziecko cudzoziemskie – studium przypadku

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Mikulska A.

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2016

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vol. 7

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issue 223

126-137

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The aim of the article is to present how the immediate surroundings can help children acquire language. It presents the case study of a 12-year-old Chinese girl who, as a consequence of parents’ decision, has lived with a Polish family and has a chance to be totally immersed in Polish. The article shows the dynamic acquisition process, including also a cultural adaptation aspect. It shows that not only school teaching can have a good influence on children’s language development.

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BEST PRACTICES IN USING VIDEO TECHNOLOGY TO PROMOTE SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

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McNulty A., Lazarevic B.

Teaching English with Technology

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2012

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vol. 12

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issue 3

49-61

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Inclusion of technology in the process of second language acquisition has always been a priority for both teachers and theoreticians. This paper reviews the current trends in using video-based language instruction in K-12 educational settings. Although it has been demonstrated for many years that the use of video as an instructional medium provides unique learning qualities, it has not been entirely embraced by high school English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers. Furthermore, recent advancements of digital video (low cost equipment and editing software) and Web-based video sharing services provide remarkable possibilities for supporting a variety of learning activities in ESL classrooms. Yet, classroom practice in using video technology has not gone too far beyond simple viewing and listening to video content for eliciting discussion among ESL students. This paper particularly highlights the role of video in the process of improving student pronunciation and presentation skills. The authors described a week-long classroom video-based project conducted at a Midwestern High School. The best examples of classroom practices and student activities were discussed. The most prominent observations of this project were that the video-based ESL activities contributed to the overall learning motivation and the enhancement of pronunciation skills. Finally, the authors discuss some potential issues and instructional implications of utilizing video technology in K-12 settings.

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Badanie polszczyzny odziedziczonej (na przykładzie bilingwizmu polsko-niemieckiego)

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Żurek A.

LingVaria : Półrocznik Wydziału Polonistyki UJ poświęcony zagadnieniom języka i językoznawstwa

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2016

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issue 21

191-200

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The interest in problems relating to the languages of migrant societies (called heritage languages in the literature) has been steadily growing among linguists and language teachers worldwide, including in Poland, and promoting the rise of new research directions (Heritage Language Acquisition, Heritage Language Learning). The present considerations systematize and review. The paper aims to present the state of research on Polish as a heritage language, in the context of Polish-German bilingualism. Considering the wide range of the issue, I limited myself to only reporting the newest empirical research conducted in Poland and Germany among bilingual speakers of Polish as a heritage language.

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The Shaping of Applied Linguistics and the Emergence of Glottodidactics

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Róg T.

Lingwistyka Stosowana / Applied Linguistics / Angewandte Linguistik

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2014

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issue 9

117-131

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This article focuses on the development of glottodidactics understood as a scientific discipline concerned primarily with teaching and learning foreign languages, as well as language acquisition, foreign language teacher training, and the design of teaching materials. We investigate the origins of glottodidactics and its gradual isolation from applied linguistics, we look at its research areas and problems it encounters as it emancipates from other sciences. Finally, our attention is turned to the achievements of glottodidactics in Poland.

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The dative alternation in Danish and Polish – A learners perspective

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Kizach J., Mathiasen T.

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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2013

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vol. 49

487-507

EN

Three experiments investigating how two groups of adult Polish learners of Danish as a foreign language acquire the Danish dative alternation are reported. Experiment 1 is a speeded acceptability judgment task, which shows that Group 1 has the same pattern as native speakers i.e. slower responses to the dispreffered new-given NP-constructions, but no givenness effect with the PP-constructions. Experiment 2 shows that Group 2 also have acquired this pattern, even though earlier research suggests that the givenness asymmetry in the dative alternation is hard to learn. Experiment 3 shows that even in Polish there is a givenness asymmetry, such that the given–new order is clearly preferred in the NP-construction, but less so in the PP-construction. The rapid acquisition of the Danish pattern could thus be explained by Polish having the same pattern. In short: Both Polish and Danish have a givenness asymmetry in the dative alternation, which could explain why Polish learners of Danish in both groups behave almost like native Danish speakers.

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Przyswajanie języka pierwszego - imitacja czy wrodzony dar? Analiza na podstawie wybranych teorii akwizycji języka ojczystego oraz podstawowych systemów językowych

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Włodarska K.

Adeptus

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2013

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issue 1

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First language acquisition – imitation or innate gift? Analysis based on selected theories of first language acquisition and basic language systemsThis article deals with a surprising phenomenon typical only for human beings – first language acquisition. Its aim is to answer the question as stated in the title. The author, an English teacher working in a nursery school, looks for the answer using references to theories connected with this topic, and in addition, takes into consideration the speech of children she is in charge of. In order to demonstrate the sophisticated nature of human language, the author refers to several definitions of this term. She presents the term ‘mother tongue’ and analyses the ways of acquiring its phonetic, phonological, morphological and syntactic systems by children. She also gives numerous examples of the most common mistakes found in their speech, taken from Polish and English languages. Furthermore, three major theories regarding first language acquisition, presenting the approach of Piaget, Chomsky and Skinner to this phenomenon, are described in the article. The author reaches the conclusion that first language acquisition is a mixture of imitation and innate gift. The role of the physical mechanism enabling a human being to produce speech and that of contact with the language of a child’s parents merits emphasizing also. The result of these factors is the possibility of language acquisition.

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Multilingual Processing Phenomena in Learners of Portuguese as a Third or Additional Language

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Włosowicz T. M.

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

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2016

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vol. 2

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issue 1

EN

The purpose of the study has been an analysis of Polish students’ cued translation of Polish (L1) and English or French (L2) sentences into Portuguese (third or additional language in De Angelis’s (2007) terminology). In particular, the study investigates cross-linguistic interaction (Herdina and Jessner’s (2002) term) in multilingual processing involved in L3 production. In fact, translation constitutes a special case of production because, on the one hand, the content is already contained in the L1 or L2 source sentences, but at the same time, this is not necessarily a facilitation, as the cues may require the use of words or structures the participants might not use in free production.The article is based on two studies carried out with thirty and forty-two students of Portuguese philology respectively. As the results show, cross-linguistic interaction in various directions was observed, not only from L2 (English or French), L3 (in those participants for whom Portuguese was an L4 and their L3 was Spanish or Italian), L4, etc. or, intralingually, from Portuguese, but also from L1, despite the distance between Polish and Portuguese and the special status of the native language. However, the amount of interference and/or negative transfer often depended on the sentence rather than on the language combination. The diversity of the observed interactions also supports Herdina and Jessner’s (2002) claim of the dynamic and unpredictable nature of cross-linguistic interaction.

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Aspectos positivos de las influencias intralingüísticas en el proceso de adquisición de L2

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Mikołajczak S.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2014

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vol. 41

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issue 1

119-127

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The processes that take place in the mind of a multilingual person during the second language acquisition are mostly shrouded in mystery. We can only observe traces of these processes manifesting themselves in the interpenetration of two or more linguistic systems. The current study aims to recognize how the knowledge of L1, in this case Spanish, influences on the acquisition and usage of the target language – Portuguese (L2), and how to take advantage of the interferences to make the L2 learners succeed. The possibility of linguistic influences grows with each acquired language. There are also important contributing factors such as a degree of similarity between the languages, a level of proficiency in each of them, and the manner and time of a language acquisition. During the Portuguese course at the Spanish Philology, we can observe such phenomena as: code switching or total displacement, hybrids, false friends, multi-word units calquing, and morphogrammatical transfer. Although one of the factors that affects the L2 acquisition is the level of proficiency, the students hardly take advantage of their mother tongue, selecting the language typologically closer to Portuguese, Spanish. The students use the previously acquired knowledge to create analogies that should be considered as an intermediate step in the acquisition of L2, not as something negative, but rather a means for providing a starting point for the analysis of error which, consequently, leads to improvement.

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W poszukiwaniu nowego modelu komunikowania. Rozważania epistemologiczne

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Przywara P.

Komunikacja Społeczna. Czasopismo elektroniczne

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2012

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issue 3

13-38

PL

Artykuł dotyczy problematyki modelowania procesu komunikowania. Proponuje się tu odejście od ujęć metajęzykowych i metakomunikacyjnych na rzecz ujęcia epistemologicznego, w myśl którego porozumiewanie się ludzi ma charakter interpretowania określonej dziedziny przedmiotowej, a więc ujęcia głoszącego, że czynności poznawcze leżą u podstaw komunikowania. Jednocześnie proponuje się, aby pojęcie „nabywania języka‟ zastąpić pojęciem „uczenia (się) świata‟.

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The paper deals with the problem of a model of comunication. There are different conceptions of how the process of communication can be modelled, however, the common feature of the various models of communication is their meta-communicational perspective. In the paper there is developed an epistemological approach to the process of communication wherein the participants of the process do not take meta-linguistic attitudes but intentionally comprehend the referents of uttered sentences. In that approach we do not talk about coding/decoding of the messages and the notion of language acquisition is replaced by the notion of 'world acquisition' or 'world learning'

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Zum spontanen Erwerb der Grammatik des Deutschen: Das lexikalische Koncept von Clahsen

Een alternatieve reisgids als didactische werkvorm in taalverwerving – een casestudie uit Zagreb

Intersubjektivität und Sprachverarbeitung

Consonant Clusters Across Morpheme Boundaries: Polish Morphonotactic Inventory and its Acquisition

An Analysis of the Higher Eductional Systems of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in Poland and China

Self-reported Difficulties in Learning English as a Second Language for Third-age Students in Poland

Book review: Kurt Braunmuller

On inadequacies in transferring concepts from one to another (linguistic sub)discipline

Fast mapping im natürlichen und gesteuerten L2-Erwerb

Word-based largest chunks for Agreement Groups processing: Cross-linguistic observations

Neurośrodowiskowe przyczyny opóźnionego rozwoju mowy w wieku niemowlęcym

Rola środowiska pozaszkolnego w procesie akwizycji języka… polskiego przez dziecko cudzoziemskie – studium przypadku

BEST PRACTICES IN USING VIDEO TECHNOLOGY TO PROMOTE SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Badanie polszczyzny odziedziczonej (na przykładzie bilingwizmu polsko-niemieckiego)

The Shaping of Applied Linguistics and the Emergence of Glottodidactics

The dative alternation in Danish and Polish – A learners perspective

Przyswajanie języka pierwszego - imitacja czy wrodzony dar? Analiza na podstawie wybranych teorii akwizycji języka ojczystego oraz podstawowych systemów językowych

Multilingual Processing Phenomena in Learners of Portuguese as a Third or Additional Language

Aspectos positivos de las influencias intralingüísticas en el proceso de adquisición de L2

W poszukiwaniu nowego modelu komunikowania. Rozważania epistemologiczne