Search results for "Linguistic competence"
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POSSIBILITIES OF USING DIALECT ATLASES IN THE ACQUISITION OF LATVIAN LANGUAGE
2020
The creation of a modern lesson increasingly uses open data, a variety of digital resources, electronic teaching tools etc. In addition to books, electronic teaching tools, information resources, etc., come into the training process as a way to portray linguistic information and the writers' creative thought. One of the resources that can be successfully exploited in promoting the growth of a fully developed and skilled pupil, as well as in-depth learning of the Latvian language, is dialect atlases. The aim of the research was to understand the functionality and effectiveness of the dialect atlases in lear ning lexicology and dialectology. The study combined the descriptive method and conte…
Semantic Verbal Fluency in Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Relationship with Chronological Age and IQ
2016
We administered a semantic verbal fluency (SVF) task to two groups of children (age range from 5 to 8): 47 diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD Group) and 53 with typical development (Comparison Group), matched on gender, chronological age, and non-verbal IQ. Four specific indexes were calculated from the SVF task, reflecting the different underlying cognitive strategies used: clustering (component of generativity and lexical-semantic access), and switching (executive component, cognitive flexibility). First, we compared the performance of the two groups on the different SVF task indicators, with the ASD group scoring lower than the Comparison Group, although the difference was grea…
Cross-linguistic influence and the MGM
2020
Abstract Language learning is an interactive, social effort and the role of grammar is no longer focused. Nowadays we consider most language learners to be pluricultural beings aiming at communicative language competence (cf. CEFR 2018) in another language. The role of grammar, thus, plays a subordinate role. Authentic language usage requires the analysis of authentic dialogues (via the Mixed Game Model, MGM) and awareness-raising regarding the phenomenon of language transfer (via Crosslinguistic-influence approaches). These two approaches will be merged within the article – addressed to linguists as well as language teachers.
The Development of Linguistic Competences for Employability: A Training Project for Teachers
2014
Abstract Employability is a new concept that has just appeared in the Spanish educational system. Its rising importance is due to European Union educational policies which aim to provide young people with training that enables them to take part successfully in the present and future working world. This paper argues for the need to develop employability from the very start of formal education, and within this, we highlight the importance of developing linguistic competence among pre-school and primary pupils as a key element for favouring employability. To be able to do so, the teaching staff must be trained using quality education to enable them to work effectively on this competence. In th…
Medical English in Italian University Courses in Sports Sciences: Some Issues in Focus
2014
Over the last few decades, the increasingly rapid progress of medical science and technology, together with the growing importance of English as the language of international communication, has made the study of medical English a crucial segment in the curriculum of medical undergraduates. In Italy, medical topics are studied not only in medical degree courses but also in those of sports sciences. This paper focuses attention on some medical English-related issues in sports sciences degree courses in Italian universities. More precisely, the work is divided into four main parts. The first part raises the terminological question concerning the denomination of the discipline “lingua inglese”/…
Una gramática escolar interlingüística. Hacia una enseñanza reflexiva de las lenguas en contextos multilingües
2022
El reto de la educación plurilingüe requiere una enseñanza de las lenguas curriculares que promueva la reflexión sobre el uso y la transferencia lingüística para desarrollar la competencia comunicativa del alumnado. En este sentido, el proyecto Egramint se plantea la elaboración de una gramática escolar interlingüística como instrumento de formación docente y de intervención en el aula. Metodológica-mente, es una investigación de carácter cualitativo-etnográfico en tres fases. En la primera, sobre la que versa este artículo, abordamos el análisis documental de los currículos oficiales del ámbito español para delimitar cómo se configura en ellos la gramática escolar. Los resultados muestran …
Teacher Educators’ Professional Identity in English-Medium Instruction at a Finnish University
2021
Publisher Copyright: © 2021, University of Ljubljana. All rights reserved. Although different forms of English-medium instruction (EMI) are being recognised, the different ways in which EMI can impact the pedagogical activities and expertise of higher education educators have received less attention. Using face-to-face and written interviews with nine teacher educators at a Finnish university, this study examines the most important aspects teacher educators perceive in their work through EMI and how these aspects connect to the understanding of their professional identity. The study is theoretically premised on the interconnected concepts of pedagogical doing, pedagogical being, pedagogical…
Reading comprehension: think and know verbs.
2004
Verbs such as think, know, remember, and guess play a pivotal role in understanding, monitoring, and transformation of internal states. We focus on the specific words as think and know, polysemous cognitive verbs that show hierarchical organization and high frequency of use in children's and adults' lexicons. According to Booth and Hall's model, think and know present a conceptual organization that involves low conceptual levels (perception, memory, comprehension) and high conceptual levels (evaluation, metacognition, planning). The aim of this research was to study the relationship between children's comprehension of text processing and the conceptual levels of the above-described verbs. …
Used and interaction in technological platforms of open source to improve the linguistic competence in computer engineers
2017
The higher education through virtual environment is students centered oriented to the interactive learning, in situations to be closer to the real world; for that reason, teachers must have new communicative competences, nonverbal and with a learning innovative approach which allows to guide their students in the complex process of acquiring knowledge even more in a foreign language. In the same context, the use of technologic platforms of open code is becoming in the best way to give solutions which meet the actual needs of the process of acquiring a second language; on this basis, the present research is focused in the analysis and use of Open Source tools as alternative of complementary …
CLIL izmantošana lingvistiskās kompetences attīstīšanai pamatskolā
2019
Kompetencēs balstīta mācīšanās un mācīšana ir kļuvusi par neatņemamu mācību procesa sastāvdaļu, tāpēc ir svarīgi angļu valodas kā svešvalodas stundās iekļaut situācijas, kas pietuvinātas reālajai dzīvei. Tā kā CLIL ir daļa no kompetenču pieejā balstīta mācību satura un kļūst arvien populārāka metode jau pamatskolas līmenī, maģistra darba mērķis ir noskaidrot, kā ar CLIL palīdzību var attīstīt skolēnu lingvistisko kompetenci pamatskolā 5. klasē. Darbā tika izmantotas gan teorētiskās, gan empīriskās metodes. Tika iekļautas aptaujas angļu valodas skolotājiem, intervijas ar jomas speciālistiem, dokumentu analīze, kā arī testi 5. klases skolēniem. Pētījuma rezultāti parāda, ka pamatskolas līmeņa…