Glottodidactica, Vol. 39/1 (2012)
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Item Zur Bedeutung des fremdsprachlichen Schreibens. Einige Überlegungen aus der Theorie und Praxis des DaF-Unterrichts auf der Fortgeschrittenenstufe(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) PAWŁOWSKA, AGNIESZKAThe article aims at analyzing the approach to writing skills in selected foreign language teaching methodologies and at characterizing the function of writing from the perspective of the theory and practice of teaching German as a foreign language.Item Classroom-based language efficiency assessment: a challenge for EFL teachers(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) WACH, ALEKSANDRAThis paper attempts to highlight the significant multidimensional role of teachers of English as a foreign language in conducting language assessment in the process of teaching. The study presented in the article aimed to investigate school and university EFL teachers’ (n=87) beliefs about the place of assessment in their teaching practice and their role as assessors. The findings indicated that classroom assessment, though appreciated by the study participants, posed a major challenge to them.Item The Impact of Blended Learning on Teaching English for Vocational Purposes(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) Lesiak-Bielawska, Elżbieta DanutaThe one-group experiment attempted to investigate the impact of blended learning on teaching English for Vocational Purposes (EVP). To maximize its internal and external validity, methodology of triangulation was employed. The results obtained indicate considerable progress and statistically significant differences between the pre-treatment and post-treatment scores in the overall acquisition of technical terminology and in the area of vocational vocabulary learned productively.Item Problems with L2 classroom research in the SEN setting with visually challenged learners(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) Jedynak, MałgorzataThe paper highlights the what, the why and the how questions which may be posed by the novice researcher in the field of visual impairment. I discuss the problematic issues inherent to various stages of research preparation and implementation such as selection of a research method, recruitment of subjects for a study, the lack of theories and models in the field of visual impairment, applicability and administration of standard tests in the SEN setting, keeping up participants’ commitment throughout a project, or sustainment of the researcher’s emotional involvement.Item Geruchsbezeichnungen in der Übersetzung am Beispiel des Romans Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Mörders von Patrick Süskind(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) PACHNIOWSKA, JOLANTAThe aim of the following article is to present the results of the translation of smell lexemes used in the Novel Parfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind and their Polish equivalents in Pachnidło. Historia pewnego mordercy by Małgorzata Łukasiewicz. The article discusses semantic, lexical and syntactical problems, influence of the context on the translation and the results of the analysis.Item Vermittlung der Abtönungspartikeln im DaF-Unterricht(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) Duch-Adamczyk, JustynaThis paper is an attempt to present German modal particles in language education. The author describes the theoretical basis of teaching of modal particles on different levels and formulates the main problems of teaching and learning modals particles.Item Der Kasuswert des prädikativen Adjektivs in Infinitivkonstruktionen des Polnischen(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) Aptacy, JarosławThe following paper addresses the issue of constructions with predicative adjectives in Polish. The main focus of attention will be put on adjectives which are governed by the copula in the infinitive form, as here one can observe some interesting casus alternation between the nominative and the instrumental. On the basis of the author’s own empirical analysis it will be examined which factors determine the choice of the casus. As it seems it is both the syntactic status of the infinitive construction and lexical factors.Item Interculturality on the border of disciplines. Polish language teaching as a means of intercultural education(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) STANKIEWICZ, KATARZYNA; ŻUREK, ANNAThe goal of the article is a presentation of the existing and potential relations between Polish language teaching and intercultural education both in the theoretical and practical aspect. The authors present the basic assumptions and goals of intercultural education, paying particular attention to intercultural learning. What follows is a thorough analysis of the presence of the intercultural approach in the theory and practice of the Polish language didactics and its relation to the pedagogy.Item Remarks on learner autonomy and success in foreign language learning as a measure of learner resilience(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) STANISŁAW, PUPPELIn a positively-oriented foreign language pedagogy, where learner autonomy is of utmost importance, focus should be placed on learner resilience. Subsequently, the formation of a resilient learner should be regarded as one of the aims of the formal schooling system on all levels of its functioning. The advantages of the presence of the resilient learner in a properly constructed ecosystem of the school are manifold and are, generally, aimed at generating a high degree of success in school tasks as well as at providing the human society with resilient participants.Item Language planning and language policy in the ecological perspective(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) WIERTLEWSKA, JANINAThe paper deals with the issue of language planning and policy both in the historical as well as the ecological perspective. The problem of linguistic diversity protection and maintenance in opposition to monolingual global world is explored.Item Angewandte Kulturwissenschaften – Überlegungen zum Studienprogramm einer akademischen Disziplin nach dem cultural turn im Hinblick auf berufliche Perspektiven(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) Wolting, StephanThe author tries to attract attention for the careers ant the education of that what we call applied Cultural Studies after the cultural turn in the Humanities. He refers to some empirical studies and tries to put it out how differs the several institutes especially in the German spoken academic world. After all the conclusion of the author could be that there is an big demand for specialists in the area of applied cultural studies. The formation or education has to refer widely to a conception or the terminus of every-day-culture, so that it could be a big help in economic, social and education professions.Item Vokabellernen (ohne) Vergessen (mit) Vokabellernstrategien(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012) Cudzich, BartoszThe aim of this article is to describe the issue of effective vocabulary learning among the students of neophilological faculties as well as to provide an answer to the question on how to learn vocabulary effectively. To achieve this aim, two vocabulary learning strategies (the key-word method and learning by heart) were compared on the basis of empirical research. Moreover, the vocabulary learning style of the informants was described, the conclusions were drawn and recommendations given.