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The article discusses the role of the age of onset of language acquisition in the early multilingualism. The differences between first language acquisition and adult second language acquisition have been established in the literature. The explanation of them is still under discussion. This paper aims at showing why the investigation of child second language acquisition is relevant for this issue....
Definition is an important and well-known method of specialized communication in general, but less known is the variation of defining terms depending of different text-types yet. This paper shows a first step in analying the qualitative distribution of types of definition in types of LSP-texts: Aristotelian vs. non-Aristotelian definitions, and real- vs. nominal definitions in parts of four text examples...
This article gives a complex overview of the topic of eyeball movements which can be described as the commonest potentially intentional human behaviour. The observations of intentional human behaviour have been carried out by scholars for centuries, yet nowadays due to the technological development it is possible to introduce far more accurate and advanced eye-tracking devices. The paper describes...
According to the contemporary psycholinguistic theories, listening comprehension is a multilevel cognitive process. The deepest level of comprehension is evaluation, which means critical analysis and judgment of what and/or how is being said. Because it involves an active reaction and response of the listener, critical listening is also seen as part of interactive communication. There are a lot of...
The aim of this article is to explore the approach of multilingual learners to foreign language collocations. Firstly, the article demonstrates the importance of collocations for foreign language learners. Secondly, it presents language learning strategies and teaching techniques which can be applied in the process of learning and teaching collocations. Subsequently, the article focuses on previous...
The present article addresses the issue of pedagogical instruction in English grammatical tenses at higher levels of language proficiency. It describes a treatment design called 3-D grammar pedagogy or the Organic Approach Dedictivided which consists mainly in teaching the semantics of the said grammatical structures based on the assumption that formal accuracy is already given in the case of advanced...
This paper describes three internet dictionaries of phrasemes of the recent years – two monolingual dictionaries of German (Redensarten-Index) and Polish (Wielki słownik frazeologiczny) and one bilingual German-Polish dictionary (Niemiecko-Polski Słownik Frazeologizmów on-line). An analysis of their structure, arrangement, lexicographic entries, other functional aspects and a comparison to the traditional...
The paper deals with mnemonic word sequences as sequences opposed to non-mnemonic word sequences and mnemonic non-verbal sequences. On the basis of both non-special and special mnemonics I analyse to what extent the mnemonic word sequences satisfy the criteria of textuality formulated by R.-A. de Beaugrande and W.U. Dressler: cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality,...
The purpose of this article is to present an image of the New World in Old Polish dictionaries, from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth century, that is, up to date of the publication of the second edition of the "Dictionary of the Polish language" by Samuel Linde. The first part of the article is devoted to the discussion of Latin, French, English, Italian, and Portuguese dictionaries, from...
Starting with questions about the definition of the language spoken in Austria, the author arrives at the anthropocentric theory of human languages with the basic concept of idiolect and polylect. From this point of view the differences in language use between Austria and Germany can not only be described, but also interpreted as differences between certain groups of idiolects. The fact that terms...
The author of this paper discusses the origins and development of integral psychology. He emphasises the fact that integral psychology creates a specific bridge between individual currents in psychology, offers the possibility to analyse their mutual relations, and provides the basis for more fruitful interaction. One of the assumptions of integral psychology is that conscience is material, meaning...
The article is intended to highlight the educationally neglected young learner potential for operational thinking about language and discuss language mosaic as the tool conducive to accomplishing this aim. It begins with a psychological and empirical justification for drawing children's conscious attention to formal properties of the L2 as opposed/compared to the L1. Consequently, language mosaic...
Looking at our academic teaching, we might wonder why our L2 students are so reluctant to embrace multiple links between fields of study such as intercultural communication or fostering L2 competence. The major aim of this paper is to point to the importance of integrating various theoretical contents, namely by enabling the students to "retrieve" them from their personal perspective. It...
The aim of this paper is to present the functional and holistic approach to translation studies. The point of departure constitute the tenets of anthropocentric translation studies laid down by F. Grucza and subsequently developed by, inter alia, S. Grucza and B.Z. Kielar who discussed them in their publications. The paper presents and discusses the holistic model of translation studies, in which...
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