91. Encouraging Speaking Skills by Teaching Adults English as a Foreign LanguageRebeka Očko, 2018, magistrsko delo Opis: English language has become the international language of communication. It is being used in almost every company; therefore the need for English-speaking staff is increasing. Making learners speak and actively participate in order to practice and improve their speaking skills is one of the hardest tasks for a teacher. Children learn best through play, but it is also adults that learn best when stimulated by different activities that put them in authentic situations. The purpose of this thesis is to find the importance and the effect that well-structured activities have on adult-learners’ speaking skills and to what extent they contribute to their level of proficiency of the English language. The theoretical part of this thesis contains information on what affects adult’s learning of a foreign language, and approaches of teaching them. There are methods presented on how to encourage learners to speak and actively participate. It is explained how to deal with adult-learners’ errors in the most productive way and how to teach pronunciation. As the red thread of this research, there are activities listed that actively engage and motivate learners to speak. In the empirical part there are nine activities presented that were applied when teaching two courses, the beginner’s course (ten participants) and the advanced course (ten participants), during the period of one year. The research was conducted to see how these activities affected twenty learners’ speaking skills, which of the activities were the most motivating for them and which helped develop their speaking skills, while dividing between beginner learners and advanced learners. Another point of the research was to see which activities helped learners remember new vocabulary for a longer period of time. The research results are then analyzed and the improvement of learners’ speaking skills is described, while the important findings are summarized at the end of the thesis.
Ključne besede: adult learners of a foreign language, English language, speaking skills, encouragement, activities.
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92. Jernej B. Kopitar and the grammar book of Ignac KristijanovićBarbara Štebih Golub, 2017, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: In 1837, the last grammar book of Kajkavian literary language Grammatik der kroatischen Mundart was published in Zagreb. In writing his grammar book, I. Kristijanović did not strive for originality; he accepted what he considered useful from all available sources. Since he was impressed by Kopitar’s linguistic knowledge and reputation, Kristijanović was using Kopitar’s Grammatik der Slavischen Sprache in Krain, Kärnten und Steyermark (1808). This paper analyses Kristijanović’s grammar book and tries to identify Kopitar’s influence. It also discusses Kopitar’ review of Kristijanović’s grammar book.
Ključne besede: Ignac Kristijanović, Jernej Bartolomej Kopitar, grammar book, Kajkavian literary language
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94. Troubling talk: a politics and history of indistinction in the Upper Sorbian communityElizabeth Spreng, 2013, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: The article focused on the cultural processes that affect speakers of Upper Sorbian, an endangered Slavic community in Eastern Germany. Through an anthropological approach, language choices emerge as a complex negotiation of linguistic identity evidenced in critique of other Sorbs and language use as well as choosing to distance oneself from the community.
Ključne besede: language endangerment, globalization, ethnography, Upper Sorbian community, language policy, Upper Sorbian language
Objavljeno v DKUM: 14.02.2018; Ogledov: 992; Prenosov: 387
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95. Gerhard Neweklowsky: Der Gailtaler slowenische Dialekt Feistritz an der Gail/Bistrica na Zilji und Hohenthurn/Straja vas. Klagenfurt: Drava, 2013. 180 str.Grant Lundberg, 2013, recenzija, prikaz knjige, kritika Ključne besede: Gerhard Neweklowsky, Der Gailtaler slowenische Dialekt Feistritz an der Gail/Bistrica na Zilji und Hohenthurn/Straja vas, Slovene language, Austria, reviews and reports
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96. Slavic-Albanian language contact : lexiconMatthew Curtis, 2012, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: This paper examines the nature of Slavic and Albanian historical interactions on the basis of three approaches to lexical borrowings: Frans van Coetsem’s (1988/2000) concepts of borrowing and imposition, scales of borrowability as found in Thomason and Kaufman (1988), and Friedman and Joseph’s (2014) notion of ERIC loans (Essentially Rooted in Communication). By examining the geographic and semantic spread of vocabulary borrowed, Slavic appears to have had a greater influence in terms of geography and quantity of borrowings, while Albanian has also contributed words for kin and other categories likely borrowed under intense or prolonged contact, suggesting rich and diverse interactions that have occurred under a variety of circumstances, including times of peaceful coexistence.
Ključne besede: Slavic languages, Albanian, language contact, borrowings, lexicon
Objavljeno v DKUM: 13.02.2018; Ogledov: 1166; Prenosov: 194
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97. Russian borrowings in the Volga German dialect in Russel County, KansasMaria Khramova, 2012, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: The present paper is based on a field investigation of the Volga German community in Russell County, Kansas. It provides a short overview of linguistic research, conducted on Volga German dialects in Kansas, and further analyses a list of Russian borrowings that was compiled in Russell in 1913. This contribution also addresses the disputable etymology of some words and expressions and discusses the lexical items from the list of 1913 that were retained in the dialect. Analysis of additional sources shows that some words that are traditionally treated as Russian borrowings acquired on the Volga may have been part of speakers’ lexicon prior to emigration and could have been borrowed from other Slavic languages.
Ključne besede: Russian language, Volga German dialect, Kansas, borrowings, language contacts, dialectology
Objavljeno v DKUM: 13.02.2018; Ogledov: 1068; Prenosov: 198
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98. Authorship attribution : specifics for SloveneAna Zwitter Vitez, 2012, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: The paper shows the importance of a quality analysis of linguistic features which enable the process of authorship attribution or author profiling in a forensic, literary or economic context (anonymous threat letters, plagiarism, literary works of unknown authorship, client profiling). It also highlights the lack of realized analyses for Slovene and outlines the methodology of detecting the syntactic, lexical, semantic and character features in order to quantify the authorʼs personal style.
Ključne besede: authorship attribution, author profiling, linguistic features, language technologies, forensic linguistics
Objavljeno v DKUM: 12.02.2018; Ogledov: 1660; Prenosov: 204
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99. Language, ideology and politics in CroatiaMate Kapović, 2011, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Based in part on his recent book Čiji je jezik? (Who does Language Belong to?), the author reviews the intricate relation of language, ideology, and politics in Croatia in the last 20 years, including new examples and analyses. The article emphasizes problems related to Croatia specifically, which might be of interest to foreign Slavists and linguists, while the monograph (in Croatian) deals with the problems of language, society, politics, ideology, and sociolinguistics in general.
Ključne besede: linguistics, sociolinguistics, language politics, Croatia, purism
Objavljeno v DKUM: 06.02.2018; Ogledov: 1231; Prenosov: 364
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100. S-shaped curve of phonological standardization : six surveys in the Tsuruoka and Yamazoe areasFumio Inoue, 2010, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: This paper is concerned with the speed of linguistic change. If social variation is a reflection of linguistic change, the scene of the linguistic change can be caught in action as a palpable phenomenon. However there is one theoretical question, the distinction of “real time” and “apparent time”. In order to observe linguistic change repeated surveying is necessary. The tradition of Japanese dialectology provides us with several examples of repetitive surveys. The conclusion of the analysis is as follows. The curve of apparent-time change corresponds to that of real-time change. The total number of years necessary for a linguistic change to be completed is nearly 200 years.
Ključne besede: Japanese, language changes, language standardization, phonetics, linguistics
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