Wissenschaftliche Literatur Fremdsprachenunterricht

Xiaoxiang Su

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 functional regularities of radicals has been found closely related to Chinese word reading and word writing among developing readers in first language…

Marek Krawiec / Joanna Kic-Drgas (eds.)

Foreign Language Learning and Teaching in Theory, Practice and Research

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

The volume Foreign Language Learning and Teaching in Theory, Practice and Research is a collection of articles written by scholars representing different academic centres in the world. It discusses various aspects from the field of foreign language education and provides theoretical and empirical evidence on selected notions of teaching and learning foreign languages, including language for specific purposes. The contributors to this volume and the aspects which…

Xiaodong Zhang

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 language (EFL) writing instruction within Chinese universities, pre-service and in-service education seem to focus on the instruction of writing at the level of language…

Marek Krawiec / Robert Pritchard (eds.)

Seize the Day: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

In Seize the Day: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, educators from several European countries consider new conditions and expectations in foreign-language (FL) teaching, and how teachers may best serve their learners in a changed and changing world.

The volume begins with several articles on the role and attributes of the FL teacher. With a focus on learners that permeates the volume, Marek Krawiec and Agnieszka Miklasz report…

Anna Sulikowska

Gedächtnisstrategien im Fremdsprachenunterricht

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

Angesichts der raschen technologischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen sowie der Europäischen Einigung gewinnt das „Lernen des Lernens“ zunehmend an Bedeutung. Der Übergang von der Industrie- zur Wissensgesellschaft, die Notwendigkeit des lebenslangen Lernens, explosionsartige Zunahme des Wissensstandes stellen vor die Schulen und Bildungsanstalten neue Anforderungen, zu denen die Herausbildung der Lernerautonomie zweifellos gehört. [...]

Eva Stranovská, Silvia Hvozdíková, Daša Munková

Selected Factors and Successfulness in the Process of Foreign Language Learning

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

Nowadays foreign language education and communication has become one of the essentials in the professional development of every individual. However, the factors that have the greatest impact on the process of foreign language learning vary greatly. Although there are many, success in the process of learning a foreign language is one of the most influential. Apparently, it is questionable what the indicators and factors of successin foreign language education are. The…

Viktoriya Bilytska

Empirische Analysen zu Hör-Sehverstehensstrategien bei Lernern des Deutschen als Fremdsprache

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

Der Kern dieses explorativen Projektes ist die Erforschung und die Analyse der beim Hör-Seh-Verstehen zum Tragen kommenden Strategien und Schwierigkeiten, die mit Hilfe einer Methodentriangulation (beetween-method) erfasst wurden. Für die Untersuchung kamen Lautes-Denken-Protokolle (bei der Antwort auf zwei offenen Fragen zum globalen Verstehen), eine mündliche Textwiedergabe des soeben Gehörten bzw. Gesehenen sowie stimulated recall (gerichtet auf…

Piotr Majcher, Beata Kołodziejczyk-Mróz, Marta Zachariasz-Janik (Hrsg.)

Literatur aus dem psychologischen und didaktischen Blickpunkt

Studien zur Germanistik

Es ist nicht zu leugnen, dass die Relationen zwischen der Literatur und Psychologie sehr eng sind. Auf literarische Werke kann aus unterschiedlichen psychologischen Perspektiven eingegangen werden. Viele verschiedene Bezugspunkte ermöglichen es, sie psychologisch orientiert zu deuten. Infolgedessen eröffnen sich für die Rezipienten neue Sichtweisen, die den rein literaturwissenschaftlichen Umgang mit dem Text um neuartige Aspekte erweitern. [...]

Anna Barnau / Bozena Dzuganova / Nora Malinovska

Effective English Language Teaching Through Videos

Theory and Praxis

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This book is intended primarily for teachers of English, students of Biology and Medicine and health care professionals. Suggestions of exercises and tasks to improve listening comprehension are given for classes, small groups as well as for individualized self-study using a PC with Internet access in the classroom or at home.

The volume combines theoretical approaches and didactic-methodologically based exercises and tasks developed by the authors. “Effective…

Kevin J. Pike

Legal Lexis in Online Learner‘s Lexicography

To What Extent are the ‘Big Five‘ English Online Monolingual Learner‘s Dictionaries Fit for the Particular Purpose of Legal ESP Classes?

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This book deals with the practical application of e-lexicography as a fundamental teaching tool in English for Special Purposes (ESP) classes in the field of law. It is very much interdisciplinary, covering the fields of lexicography, metalexicography, law, ESP teaching and linguistics. It begins with a look at the methodology undertaken during a detailed piece of research conducted by the author amongst several hundred predominantly law students at the…