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The following article describes a project that relates to the developing of translation competence between German and Polish languages. The project was conducted at the University of Gdańsk among students of Applied Linguistics with the translation specialization. The used method was academic tutoring as a personalized way of recognizing student’s potential and needs in the field of translation and...
The Error Analysis Approach has been widely used to improve the learning of foreign languages and to evaluate human translation, but Error Analysis can also be applied to automatic translation, as shown by different scholars (see M. Koponen 2010). This article reports on a European project, called Organic.Lingua, which tries to demonstrate the potential of a multilingual web portal for Sustainable...
The Chinese language is a tonal language. The four tones of Modern Standard Chinese cause difficulties for non-tonal language users. Learning to recognize foreign speech sounds and to distinguish their phonological features is the process influencing the complex auditory ability. This article presents the pilot study of auditory reactions of Polish-speaking people to learning a tonal language. Pure...
The article outlines the problem of difficulties resulting from cultural differences encountered by the Dutch translators of two Polish novels: Ferdudyrke and Początek. Culture is present in such texts produced in a certain literary system and socio-cultural context on nearly every level and it often poses serious translation problems. The author focuses on the choices made by Gerard Rasch and Willem...
The inquiry provides an overview of the central issues that arise in the consideration of sec-ond/foreign language attrition. The seminal articles included provide an insightful view of what constitutes the phenomenon in question. The research on non-native language attrition is still weak (K. Bardovi-Harlig/ D. Stringer 2010) and requires more attention not only on the part of linguists studying...
This article constitutes the second part of my paper entitled “Didactics of the ‘language of economics’ (I). …”, published in the previous volume. The aim of this part is to characterize (didactic) economics texts with particular focus on their genres and components. Additionally, I will present a few remarks on the effective methods of teaching the language of economics. All the meta-analyses shown...
The main impulse to write this article arose from my experience of working for one of the Polish local government institutions. Through the years of my professional activity I had the opportunity to become familiar with the phenomenon of local government, its structure and fundamental goals. But there is something else, what I believe, should be of interest for the potential reader of this paper....
Through quality research and reflective approach we may observe the cultural dimensions of learning/ teaching of foreign languages. In my research on cultural aspect of learning/ teaching of Polish language as the next language I demonstrate the relation between the learner and the teacher in the endolingual environment and their perception of culture(s) as well as the impact on the effectiveness...
The article discusses the phenomenon of compounds and idioms as a vital issue in the didactics of translation, exemplified by Polish and German. The author applies Langacker’s cognitive grammar to the description of compound nouns, explains the partial compositionality of complex linguistic units, presents their semantic types and analyses their semantic potential in the press article entitled Grauer...
In the article, the issue of teaching the foreign language to adult learners has been raised. The author presented a set of components allowing to conduct individual foreign language classes with a business client effectively. Special attention has been paid to non-linguistic elements of a didactic unit which allow to diversify the classes and which introduce friendly atmosphere that simplifies the...
Growing international cooperation results in changing expectations of employers. Professional translators/interpreters who specialize in law, economy, accounting, etc. and are knowledgeable about various types of specialised communication are highly sought-after. In view of that translator/interpreter training has an ever increasing role to play. This paper discusses the characteristics of a particular...
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