Wissenschaftliche Literatur Language

Baydaa Mustafa

An Empirical Intergenerational Study of Language Choice and Language Attitudes among the Kurdish Population in the Multilingual Governorate of Duhok

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Language choice and language attitude are crucial subjects in sociolinguistics, particularly in multilingual regions. Despite the linguistic diversity in the Duhok Governorate, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, no prior research has examined language choice and attitudes there. This study addresses this gap through both macro and micro analyses.

The macro-level analysis examines Kurdish in global and regional contexts using qualitative methods and literature reviews.…

Julia Analena Hollmann

Language & the Brain: The Neural Basis of Foreign Language Proficiency

Angewandte Linguistik aus interdisziplinärer Sicht

The heart of this book is constituted by the scientific discipline of neurolinguistics. The fascinating field of neurolinguistics encompasses the study of the neural mechanisms in the human brain that control the comprehension, production, and acquisition of a native or foreign language. Neurolinguistic research examines the underlying mechanisms of all the major subcategories of language in the brain, e.g. syntax, semantics, phonetics, phonology, or…

Marek Krawiec / Dahui Dong / Jeffrey Trambley / Pin-Shan Hsiung (eds.)

Various Facets of Foreign Language Education

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

The volume Various Facets of Foreign Language Education is a collection of articles written by academics and practitioners interested in foreign language learning and teaching. It presents and discusses various concepts in FL education and provides new evidence, solutions and implications with regard to modern learners and teachers. Considering the different interests of the contributors to this volume, several facets of FL education can be distinguished here, such…

Klaus Geyer / Kerstin Pramstaller (Hrsg.)

Language(s) – Sprache(n) – Sprog (sg./pl.)

Ausgewählte Beiträge der 28. GeSuS-Linguistiktage vom 16.–18. Mai 2022 in Odense (Dänemark)

Sprache und Sprachen in Forschung und Anwendung

Die 28. Linguistiktage der Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen hätten ursprünglich schon vom 25.–27. Mai 2020 an der Süddänischen Universität in Odense stattfinden sollen. Dieser Plan wurde durch die Covid-19-Pandemie gründlich zunichte gemacht. Erst zwei Jahre später im Mai 2022 war an eine geregelte Durchführung mit Anwesenheit vor Ort zu denken. Schließlich fanden rund 60 Teilnehmer:innen aus 15 europäischen Ländern den Weg nach Dänemark. [...]

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…

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 / Lidia Taillefer / María Felicidad Tabuenca Cuevas / Fidel Çakmak (eds.)

Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Current State of Practice and Research

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

The volume Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Current State of Practice and Research is a new contribution to the discussion about FL education. The articles, by both EFL and GFL teachers, describe recent practices and research implemented in this area. The book is divided into two parts: the first presents articles in English, and the second, in German. The contributors to these parts and the notions which they deal with in their texts are as…

Martina Bredenbröcker

A Corpus-Based Approach to English as a Foreign Language at Primary School Level

Collocations for Early Beginners

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

In der englischen Sprachwissenschaft wie in der Fachdidaktik Englisch ist die Bedeutung von Kollokationen und anderen phraseologischen Einheiten sowohl für den Muttersprachler als auch für den Sprachenlerner seit langem anerkannt. Natürlich vorkommende Sprache besteht zu einem überwiegenden Teil aus wiederkehrenden Phrasen, die sprachenspezifisch und damit schwierig für die Lerner sind. Erkenntnisse aus der kognitiven Psychologie und Psycholinguistik belegen, dass das…

Hanna Pułaczewska

Adolescence with Polish in a German Town

The Case of Regensburg

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Already in the first generation of children born abroad to migrant parents, a language shift to the language of the host country and a loss of the heritage language frequently occurs. While some migrant parents talk to their children in their own mother tongues, a contrary scenario is no exception. In families including a Polish speaking parent or parents living in Germany, German frequently becomes the only language used for communication by members of the second…

Anna Barnau / Božena Džuganová

English for Health Care Professionals

Didaktik in Forschung und Praxis

The book English for Health Care Professionals is intended primarily for students of Biology and Medicine, teachers of English for Specific Purposes, and health care professionals. Suggestions of exercises and tasks to improve listening as well as reading comprehension are given for classes, small groups and self-studying individuals. The volume combines theoretical approaches and didactic-methodologically based exercises and tasks developed by the authors. English for…