Language Competence
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Nello studio si analizza la "leadership" durante conversazioni Teletandem, realizzate da parlanti di differenti L1 che adoperano in modo alternato la loro L2, a sua volta lingua nativa dell'interlocutore. I dialoghi avvengono tramite un... more
Drawing on an ethnography in regional employment offices in a French-German canton in Switzerland, it is the aim of this article to articulate the complexities involved in the practices revolving around and geared towards the role of... more
The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) requires that European univer- sities become professional-approach institutions where students receive competence- based training. Within the context of the Translation and Interpreting Studies,... more
Im Kapratenbecken gibt es 17 archaeologische Forschungspunkte wo sich unter den Funden Gegenständen mit Rowaschinschriften (Kerbinschriften) be-finden. Eine wichtige Aufgabe ist diese Inschriften zu entziffern. Im Mittel-punkt der... more
Standardized tests are a reality in a globalized world and, consequently, in the Spanish system. Language test developers have already claimed that the current model of assessment has little to do with real language use, as factors such... more
By examining young students from Northeastern Ontario, depending on whether they belong to the linguistic minority or majority, the article covers three interrelated themes: perception of linguistic competency, usage of a language... more
Previous research on classroom interaction in international university contexts tended to focus on individual speakers’ language (in)competence. This paper adopts a translanguaging and spatial orientation to intercultural classroom... more
Purpose This paper highlights the forensic implications of language impairment in 2 key (and overlapping) groups of young people: identified victims of maltreatment (abuse and/or neglect) and young offenders. Method Two lines of research... more
Muchas técnicas de atenuación lingüística están estrechamente ligadas a estrategias de cortesía verbal. Un clásico en este contexto son las preguntas del tipo ¿Puedes pasarme el pan, por favor? que funcionan como petición cortés. La... more
Prispevek temelji na podatkih, pridobljenih med dijaki dvojezičnih šol na avstrijskem Koroškem. Raziskava izhaja iz Bourdieujeve teorije prakse, dodatno pa jo osvetljujejo podatki psiholoških testov respondentov (petfaktorski model... more
Foreign language departments with the goal of advanced literacy require optimizing student learning, especially at the initial stages of the program. Current practices for admission and placement mainly rely on students’ grades from... more
El concepto de tradición discursiva desarrollado por la lingüística románica es central para una lingüística de enfoque cultural. Este concepto se basa en el modelo coseriano de la competencia lingüística, del cual se deduce la definición... more
This research represents an experiment, conducted with Bulgarian stu dents in International Relations at the Law Faculty of Sofia University "St.KlimentOhridski ". During their four years of study, they have German as first or second... more
Textkompetenz als Fähigkeit, Texte mit unterschiedlicher sprachlicher und kultureller Komplexität in verschiedenen Sprachen verstehen zu können, ist ein zentrales Ziel des Fremdsprachenunterrichts. Damit Lehrerinnen und Lehrer diese... more
Discourses and texts follow patterns and have their own traditions. The concept of discourse tradition as a form of cultural knowledge that is linked to dimensions of textuality and cooperation is, on a theoretical level, combined with... more
The situation in many spheres today is changing very rapidly therefore the labour market requires creative specialists with a good command of English and excellent cooperation skills who are able to make decisions and think strategically.... more
Tourism has become one of the most flourishing businesses in the country. It requires creative, educated specialists with a good command of several foreign languages who are able to use the language in different socio-cultural contexts.... more
En las lenguas románicas una función central de los gerundios consiste en crear vínculos o junciones (Raible 1992) entre acciones diversas en el marco oracional. El concepto de junción implica que dos acciones - la actividad expresada por... more
Les études sur les minorités linguistiques au Canada posent communément la question de la reproduction, question à laquelle est attachée celle de l’assimilation, phénomène qui se révèle dans des faits qui vont des tendances démographiques... more
The topicality of the present evaluation research is marked by the changes in teaching-learning process, which is shifting from teaching to learning. The study implementing a mixed method research design was conducted from 2003 to 2007 in... more
In content and language integrated learning (CLIL), as in any other type of bilingual education, two languages are used to promote cognitive and language learning. Whereas in the bilingual classroom the two languages are always present,... more
The article aims at presenting a few neuroanatomical models and neuroanatomically based theories (the Maturational State Hypothesis, the Aging Hypothesis, the Fragile Rote Hypothesis and the Entrenchment Hypothesis, among other things,)... more
In linguistic pragmatics norms can be seen as traditions that guide verbal interaction. In order to pin down the notion of tradition, we use a model of linguistic pragmatics that goes back to Eugenio Coseriu’s system of linguistic... more
Im Spannungsfeld von Sprachwandel, Diskurstraditionen und einzelsprachlichem Wissen untersucht der vorliegende Beitrag narrative Techniken im Französischen und Spanischen und beschreibt, wie bei diesen Verwendungstypen einzelsprachliche... more
Based on an Old Spanish text, the Libro de Apolonio, the study analyzes riddles as a cultural technique using a methodological framework which distinguishes three types of pragmatics and offers a clear-cut distinction between language... more
The paper discusses phraseological competence and its importance for the language user's autonomy in the proces of communication
It has been known that the right hemisphere is contributed to language processing, especially in macro level, including macrostructure or discourse processing. This research is aimed at evaluating the students’ ability in language... more
Standardized tests are a reality in a globalized world and, consequently, in the Spanish system. Language test developers have already claimed that the current model of assessment has little to do with real language use, as factors such... more
La tradición discursiva como concepto es un saber cultural que rige la configuración de textos y, por esta razón, es un componente esencial de la competencia textual. Las tradiciones discursivas son un concepto cultural, textual y... more
The purpose of the article is to study the didactic functions of MOODLE using the example of teaching English in the second year of a language university; highlight the basic principles of organizing foreign language teaching and... more