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UPRT 2011
Empirical studies in English applied linguistics
CONTENTS, INTRODUCTION
Contents
Introduction
Lovorka Zergollern-Miletić: An Eternal Question: How to Teach Culture?
Mark Davies: Stereotypical Images and Icons in the Teaching of Culture
Veronika Horváth-Magyar: ICC - Do I see? A Case Study on Intercultural Communication in a Secondary School
Judit Dombi: A Qualitative Study on English Majors' Intercultural Experiences
Zsófia Menyhei: "To me it's a bit different to teach a course like this": Evaluation of a Course on Intercultural Communication
Gergely Farkas: A Comparative Study of Views on Globish
Marianne Nikolov and Gábor Szabó: Establishing Difficulty Levels of Diagnostic Listening Comprehension Tests for Young Learners of English
Lucilla Lopriore and Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović: Aural Comprehension and Oral Production of Young EFL Learners
Thomas A. Williams: "I would like to speak it as perfectly as possible": The potential for TBLT in Hungarian EFL
Csilla Sárdi: Students' Needs in a BA in English Studies Programme in Hungary After Bologna: A Research Report
Zoltán Lukácsi: Principal Examiners' Perceptions of Test and Item Analysis
Katarzyna Cybulska and Visnja Kabalin Borenić: Learning Another Language and Motivation to Continue Learning English: Competition or Synergy?
Introduction
UPRT conferences have usually given interested participants much freedom in
terms of what area of their research they can present. The organizers' only
request has been that the paper proposal focus on an applied linguistically
relevant domain. Thus, we have not advertised these events with specific
themes. Still, each conference, and now we have had six of them, can be
characterized by a theme that we may call its common core. This year, that
theme is clearly culture.
This sixth edition of the UPRT series thus opens with papers that address
culturally exciting questions, ranging from fundamental pedagogical issues
such as the methodology of teaching cultural notions and values to
linguistic developments such as the emergence of and debates related to
global English. One might argue, of course, that culture is indeed inherent
in all manner of applied linguistic endeavor - and one would be right, as
attested by all the twelve chapters of the current edition.
Speaking of which: our readers and contributors may be pleased to know that
the current edition may be the last one published in Pécs for the time
being, as UPRT may transform into UZRT next year. According to plans now in
development, from now on our colleagues in Zagreb will organize the
roundtables every second year, the first being in 2012. It would certainly
be a welcome extension of the scope of the event - geographically as well
as culturally. If these plans do materialize, let me be the first one to
wish the organizers of the Zagreb event and the editors of next year's
proceedings all the best.
The editor