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UPRT 2010
Empirical studies in English applied linguistics
CONTENTS, INTRODUCTION
Contents
Introduction
The Function of Code-Switching
Role of Language Exposure in Early Foreign-Language Learning
An Exploratory Study on Children's Preferences on Tales in an EFL Class
Teachers' Views on Tasks that Work with Primary-School EFL Learners
In the Eye of the Beholder: Establishing the Hungarian Cultural Value Orientation Profile for Further Use in Foreign-Language Education
"YILL class, YILL problems": Teachers' and Students' Views on the Year of Intensive Language Learning
Research on the YILL Programme in the 2009/2010 School Year
Student Beliefs and Attitudes About Foreign Language Use, First Language Use and Foreign Language Anxiety
The Need to Facilitate Pre-Service Teachers in TEFL
Attitudes Towards English and FL Motivation Among Croatian University Business Students: Results of a Pilot Study
The BA in English Studies Programmes in Hungary After Bologna: Issues in Research Design
English Articles Revisited
English Language Proficiency and the Prediction of Academic Success of First-Year Students of English
The Construct of Intercultural Communication in University Syllabi
Introduction
Like our earlier volumes, UPRT 2010, too, brings together papers focusing
on various aspects of research on language and language education. The
fourteen chapters present empirical studies written by sixteen authors,
discussing a wide range of questions - related to language acquisition at a
young age, highschool and university program evaluations, and intercultural
communication.
We are always pleased to be able to share an international perspective.
In the current edition, we again can publish the findings of Croatian and
Italian colleagues' projects, next to reports by Hungarian professionals.
And we can assure you that we will continue to do so in UPRT 2011 and
beyond.
Finally, some recent statistics about the range of readership our four
books have attracted, beginning with UPRT 2006 and all the way to this
volume. The main access points for UPRT books are the Hungarian Electronic
Library and Google Books. As of today, November 15, 2011, over seven
thousand visits have been registered on the former, and almost four
thousand on the latter. These figures include one-stop visits by people
who have found us accidentally, but also return visits by students and
colleagues from around the world who came to these sites to look up pages
and download the full content for themselves.
Wherever you are from, we would like you to know how pleased we are that
you have discovered the work of the authors who appear in this collection.
Very.
The editors