Literatur: Linguistics

Indica & Germanica – Beiträge zur Indogermanistik gestern und heute in Jena

Sprache und Sprachen in Forschung und Anwendung

Der Band Indica & Germanica – Beiträge zur Indogermanistik gestern und heute in Jena versammelt zum einen Aufsätze zur Geschichte der Indogermanistik in Jena: Von Friedrich Slottys Dissertation 1905 über Richard Hauschild reicht der Bogen bis zur Wendezeit 1989/1990 und in die Gegenwart. Zum anderen [...]

Teaching Writing Through Teachers᾽ Self-Directed Development

A Representative Qualitative Case Study in China – Challenges and Promises

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

It is typical for teachers to experience a lack of effective professional development at the institutional level. In this context, the practice that teachers have gained from their professional development may also insufficiently meet students’ needs. For example, in the context of English as a foreign [...]

Radical Awareness among Chinese-as-a-Foreign-Language Learners

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This study examined radical awareness among college students who learned Chinese as a foreign language (CFL).

Radicals are subcomponents of characters. They follow positional constraints and they have meaning-cueing and pronunciation-cueing functions. Radical awareness, the knowledge about the positional and [...]

Chinese University Students’ Test-taking Motivation, Metacognitive Awareness, and Test Performance in EFL Listening

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This book builds on the expectancy-value of test taking motivation framework, going beyond merely ascertaining whether test taking motivation-related variables have direct effects on listening test performance as measured by listening test score in College English Band 4 (CET-4) listening testing context in China. [...]

The Classification of Exonyms

Proceedings of the 21st UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Riga [Rīga], 24–26 September 2018

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

Exonyms involve the adaptation of geographical names from a donor language into a receiver language, and they reflect the fascinating movement and interaction of peoples around the world. The Working Group on Exonyms of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) was established by [...]