Wissenschaftliche LiteraturApplied linguistics

Marek Krawiec / Ferit Kılıçkaya / Gabriel Sánchez-Sánchez / Erik Castello (eds.)

New Themes and Dimensions in Applied Linguistics

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

The volume New Themes and Dimensions in Applied Linguistics is a collection of articles written by scholars from different academic centres in the world who are interested in applied linguistic studies. In a novel and innovative way, it presents and discusses problems relevant to applied linguistics and…

Marek Krawiec / Dahui Dong / Jeffrey Trambley / Pin-Shan Hsiung (eds.)

Various Facets of Foreign Language Education

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

The volume Various Facets of Foreign Language Education is a collection of articles written by academics and practitioners interested in foreign language learning and teaching. It presents and discusses various concepts in FL education and provides new evidence, solutions and implications with regard to…

Marek Krawiec / Lidia Taillefer / María Felicidad Tabuenca Cuevas / Fidel Çakmak (eds.)

Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Current State of Practice and Research

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

The volume Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Current State of Practice and Research is a new contribution to the discussion about FL education. The articles, by both EFL and GFL teachers, describe recent practices and research implemented in this area. The book is divided into two parts: the first…

Jian Xu

Chinese University Students’ Test-taking Motivation, Metacognitive Awareness, and Test Performance in EFL Listening

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This book builds on the expectancy-value of test taking motivation framework, going beyond merely ascertaining whether test taking motivation-related variables have direct effects on listening test performance as measured by listening test score in College English Band 4 (CET-4) listening testing context in China.…

Xiaoxiang Su

Radical Awareness among Chinese-as-a-Foreign-Language Learners

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This study examined radical awareness among college students who learned Chinese as a foreign language (CFL).

Radicals are subcomponents of characters. They follow positional constraints and they have meaning-cueing and pronunciation-cueing functions. Radical awareness, the knowledge about the positional…

Marek Krawiec / Robert Pritchard (eds.)

Seize the Day: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

In Seize the Day: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, educators from several European countries consider new conditions and expectations in foreign-language (FL) teaching, and how teachers may best serve their learners in a changed and changing world. [...]

Christian Marino Baudy

Producing Verbal Play in English

A Contrastive Study of Advanced German Learners of English and English Native Speakers

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Verbal play production feeds on the ability to deliberately manipulate language. It is frequently employed by native speakers (of English) in human interaction to achieve a communicative goal „with a laugh?. Foreign language learners hardly employ such strategic moves. Research into foreign language play typically…

Angelika Goldstein & Biljana Golubović (eds.)

Foreign Language Movies – Dubbing vs. Subtitling

Schriften zur Medienwissenschaft

The subject of this volume is motion picture translation, that is, theories, methods and results of research aimed at various aspects of foreign movies and the implementation of motion pictures in foreign language classes.

This collection of papers on the translation of motion pictures consists of 15…