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The objective of this article is to present the profile of a German philology student – the prospective teacher, based on his/her self-reflection and self-esteem. A brief analysis of teacher education standards (Ordinance of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of 17 January 2012) and publications on the role of mindfulness in foreign language teaching and teacher education were the starting...
This paper is a review of key aspects of complementary teaching of English and German as a foreign language i.e. according to the DaFnE (German after English) principle that means the sequential constellation of English as the first foreign language and German as the second one (tertiary language). It should be noted that this approach has been developed since the seventies of the twentieth century...
This article discusses some words of foreign origin adopted into Polish and Russian from other languages. The lexical characteristic of borrowings has been selected for the analysis in order to show some similarities and differences in the scope of various lexical fields. For the purpose of this analysis two models of symmetric and asymmetric borrowing have been developed and tested. As a regular...
The application of innovative methods in modern foreign language teaching ought to result in better effectiveness of learning operationalised as results in standardized tests of achievement. In particular, one expects here high effectiveness of the discursive method which is part of innovative teaching trend, and developed in foreign language teaching as a counterbalance to traditional methods, a...
This article is devoted to the issues of foreign language teaching. It analyses the process of teaching a specific foreign language which also takes into account linguistic thinking which constitutes its starting point. The problem can be accounted for by means of constructivism – a key assumption of language teaching in the postcommunication era. According to constructivism, acquisition of new knowledge...
It is a fact that language education ought to include the teaching of culture and developing of cultural sensitivity. Intercultural competence is in our contemporary world the expected outcome in language learning and teaching. The intercultural learning paradigm is directed toward educating learners to communicate successfully with speakers from other cultures. Learners are to learn to understand...
The aim of this paper is to show the artistic aspects of phonetics and teaching phonetics basing on German speech sounds and their combinations in this language. This branch of linguistics called the methodology of phonetics reveals its artistic signs.The art as virtuosi and singers prove is a very good means to work on better and better pronunciation and finally its automatic production. Without...
The complex phenomenon of the multilingual competence, which cannot be viewed as the sum of competences in every single language known to the speaker, not only requires a detailed analysis of its different aspects but should also be the subject of learners’ reflection. The following paper examines the outcome of a questionnaire which was a part of an empirical pilot study made among Polish students...
Foreign language teachers’ training is one of the research domains of the Polish foreign lan-guage didactics as an academic discipline. It is also an area of practice in the perspective of which we have to distinguish scientific knowledge, personal views [germ. subjective theorien], teaching practices in class and academic studies. In the present paper I discuss some results of the meta-analysis of...
This paper is an attempt to illustrate the role of needs assessment as a constitutive linguistic-communicative task of the professional fields of consulting, sales and service, and simultaneously a plea for greater consideration in school and academic learning contexts
This paper discusses the involvement of cultural factors in the process of effective intercultural communication in a business environment. In order to do so, I shall discuss the basic issues concerning culture as a pattern of interactional behaviors, investigating intercultural communication practices as a means to reveal such patterns, communication as a process of activating cultural meanings,...
In the global marketplace of the 21st century the idea of learning language specific to business exists as an operative necessity in improving the functionality of a marketable skill set. Similarly, the use of work-place specific terminology acts as a key ingredient in improving the ability to work, converse, and thrive in any environment. However, there is a gap which exists in the ability of an...
Didactics of the “Language of Economics” (part I). What is the So-Called “Language of Econom-ics”? A Few Remarks on Linguistic Determinants of the Didactics of the “Language of Economics”. An increase of the fundamental significance of specialized languages has made it necessary to investigate their nature and seek more effective methods for teaching them. In the context of modern civilization changes,...
The aim of this paper is to present the results of the assessment of intertextual symmetry of texts produced during the phase of project planning. The corpus of texts was built as a result of observation of managers formulating project goals and tasks according to the instruction concerning project requirements. The observation was conducted with the help of managerial tools developed on the basis...
Excellence and the related notions, such as competence, expertise and expert performance, elude precise definition. Historically, these notions have been approached in different ways by scholars developing their theories in a number of disciplines. These theories are discussed in the article with special reference to determinants of excellence in business and in light of the anthropocentric theory...
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