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The paper is a review of more important Polish works on a language mistake, in a broad sense of the term. These polemical works are part of a discussion of the definition of a language mistake and try to identify the most appropriate term (terminological polemic) in order to determine it as well as to list its types and causes. The problem of a language mistake has been discussed and examined for...
The aim of this paper is to show, how to understand the role of the foreign language teacher in the context of the developing in students communicative competence on the example of the project work on advertising texts. The role of the foreign language teacher has changed. Namely we can observe the recent shift from teacher - centeredness to learner - centeredness in the glottodidactical process....
The aim of this article is to discuss metascientifi c and metalinguistic vision of (applied) linguistics. The article consists of three parts. The first part describes the phrase „applied linguistics" and presents the meanings attached to this phrase by other authors. The second part presents the Author's answer to the question concerning science, i.e. the question with regard to distinctive...
The aim of the article is to present the methodology of using case studies in teaching business English to upper-intermediate and advanced students. In the first part it gives a brief history of case studies, then it presents the structure and the basic parts of a mini-case. The last part deals with the methodology of using cases in a business English class. It stresses the significance of case studies...
This article attempts to create a general and, out of necessecity, selective and up-to-date description of translation studies in Poland. The Author starts elaborating on the stages of the complicated development of translation studies with the presentation of facts in which translation studies has its origin. Further, the Autor describes the periodization of translation studies in the light of influence...
The article deals with the implications of the anthropocentric language theory by F. Grucza for foreign/second language teaching and learning process design. In the first part the anthropocentric language theory is presented in connection with other modern linguistic theories such as the model of language processing by W.J.M. Levelt and discourse theory. The first part is also concerned with the problem...
The article addresses rules of spelling popular graphic abbreviations in modern Polish. Numerous errors in this connection can be observed nowadays, e.g., d/s (instead of ds.), n/w (instead of nw.), w/ w (instead of ww.), and the like. On analyzing spelling and punctuation principles provided by several up-to-date orthographic dictionaries, and also grammatical and linguistic guide-books, the author...
The overall aim of the present article is to evaluate the potential of conceptual metaphors as reliable research tools to be applied in glottodidactics. The main premise adopted is the cognitive principle of inseparability between conceptual mechanisms on the one hand, and the richness of human experience on the other. Consequently, man and his language are viewed through the prism of multifarious...
The article attempts to provide answers to the questions concerning the use, understanding and ontological status of connotation in the light of the anthropocentric theory of languages. The problems are examined on three levels: terminological, semantic and ontological. The problem on the level of terminology is largely attributed to the ambiguous use of the term connotation in the field of linguistics,...
In his analysis of the achievements of applied linguistics in Poland, the author draws on Grucza's (2007) work Lingwistyka stosowana. Historia – Zadania – Osiagniecia (Applied Linguistics: History, Tasks and Achievements). The author also makes reference to the French school of linguistique appliquée, since the establishment of the Applied Linguistics Unit for the Teaching of Polish as a Foreign Language...
The article discusses the role of simple functional texts such as circulars, manuals, press notes, advertising texts, recipes and CVs in the syllabus of the university course of applied linguistics. The practical analysis of such texts supports the development of linguistic reflection concerning the text structure, communicative, pragmatic and socio-cultural conditions, and the appropriate choice...
Recent readings concerning discourse analysis, its aims, tasks and explicative potential support the thesis that there has been a lot of confusion around discourse analysis, especially around its subject scope. It seems that the confusion is mainly caused by lack of understanding of what it is that we refer to as "language" and how it exists. By ignoring the ontological answers concerning...
There is no doubt that the quality plays a very essential role also in the foreign language teaching. Still, the necessity of the constant quality development and improvement seems to be undervalued. The purpose of the following article is to explore mutual correlation between quality and effectiveness of the foreign language teaching. In the article different approaches to the question of quality...
The subject of the article is related to the issue of construction and instruction in the didactics of foreign languages. Although instruction isn't a recommended approach, there are some instructive measures imposed in glottodidactics, such as teaching plans, handbooks, fixed time of classes, etc. On the other hand there is more and more construction in the methodological advice including learning...
In article problems of a soсiolinguistic condition of a language situation both an ethnolanguage situation and their influence on formation educational bilinguistic in Republic Kazakhstan are considered. Results of soсiolinguistic researches on revealing of forms and types of Kazakh-Russian and Russian-Kazakh bilinguistic among students are yielded and corresponding conclusions which are interesting...
The following article is an attempt to polemize with some stereotypes about translating of technical texts. One of such stereotypes is that there are no polysemic and homonymic words in technical languages. On the grounds of the analysis there has been an attempt to show that the awareness of the specificity of the special languages with their vertical and horizontal stratification and of the complex...
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