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UPRT 2013
CONTENTS, INTRODUCTION
Contents
Judit Dombi, József Horváth and Marianne Nikolov: Introduction
Thomas A. Williams: Beyond the Black Box: A Sociocultural Exploration of Speaking Task Performance
Zsófia Menyhei: Developing English Majors' Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Social Constructivist Classroom: The Students' Views
Katalin Doró: Citation Practices in EFL Undergraduate Theses: A Focus on Reporting Verbs
Zsuzsanna Soproni and Györgyi Dudás: Student Perceptions of ELF at an International Higher Education Institution
Alenka Mikulec and Kristina Cergol Kovačević: Lexico-Grammatical Features in Croatian ELF
Sandra Mardesić and Suzana Stanković: A Comparative Study of Foreign Language Anxiety Among Students Majoring in French, Italian and Spanish
Krunoslav Puškar: Who's Afraid of Language Still? A Comparative Study of Foreign Language Anxiety in English and German Majors
Zoltán Krommer: Testing Metaphors of Political Morality: A Pilot Study
Stefka Barócsi: Succeeding the Repracticum: Looking at the Period in Retrospect
Gabriella Hild: Emic Perspectives on an EFL Teacher's Assessment Practice in Grade 7
Zoltán Lukácsi: Different Candidates in Different Language Examination Periods
Introduction
In line with our commitment to share valuable empirical works from the
field of applied linguistics, this year's UPRT collection endeavors to
bring together topics as diverse as research on English as a lingua franca,
intercultural communication, anxiety, teacher training, language testing,
citation practices, classroom communication, and even metaphors of
political morality. You may wonder how such varied topics can appear in
the same volume. The answer is simple: the annual roundtable conferences,
whether they are held in Pécs or Zagreb, bring together researchers,
colleagues, and friends eager to share their most recent empirical
contributions to applied linguistics. Being in the midst of so much
knowledge, experience and energy is inspiring, thought-provoking and
motivating. We do hope that reading these works may reflect the
conference's atmosphere and the articles of the volume will be stimulating
for our readers.
Speaking of stimulating our readers, here is a quiz for you: What do you
think the following words, notions and names have in common: motivate,
program, Swain, lexical, interlocutor, Croat, proximal, concord, multilingual,
lexis, dyad, preposition, milieu, outperform, posit, Hungary, phonology,
classmate, competence, and calibrate? If you said they are the twenty
statistically most significant keywords in the current edition, that is,
the words that give this volume its special character the most, you would
be right. They are. The keyword list, based on the main text (a total of
43,038 words) of the eleven papers published in this volume, was generated
using that wonderfully useful tool, Lextutor, created and constantly
updated at lextutor.ca by Thomas Cobb. It shows us some of the main threads
that kept our colleagues excited recently.
We hope you share that excitement. Enjoy UPRT 2013!
The editors