Modern trends in foreign language teaching and applied linguistics
CONTENTS, PREFACE
Contents
Preface
Medgyes, Péter: Why won't the little beasts behave?
Orosz, Ildikó: Possibilities of Hungarian language education in Transcarpathia in the light of a disrespected language law
Ajtay-Horváth, Magda: Contexts challenged by poetry
Bárány, Erzsébet: Methodological questions of the acquisition of Ukrainian as a second language (USL) in Transcarpathian Hungarian schools: problems and solutions
Csernicskó, István: The problems of teaching Ukrainian as a state language in Transcarpathia
Fábián, Márta: Impact of monolingual and bilingual environment on the receptive skills and learning strategies of young learners of EFL in Transcarpathian Hungarian schools
Fodor, Gyula: Language situation in Ukraine and possibilities of teaching the Transcarpathian geographical heritage through English
Frank, Jerrold: What is a good English language teacher?
Henkel, Beatrix: The how and why of minority learners' language motivation
Horváth, József: "Two worlds and us". Originality in university students' e-books in English
Huszti, Ilona: Do mentors and trainees agree? Insights into the processes of becoming a teacher
Illés, Éva: English as a lingua franca in language pedagogy
Kovács, Júlia: A case study of a Japanese-Hungarian secondary-school EFL student: the interaction of sociocultural identity, languages and willingness to communicate
Lechner, Ilona: Idioms based on metaphors in the FLA process from a cognitive linguistic perspective
Márku, Anita and Bartha, Csilla: Researching the Internet language use as a modern trend in applied linguistics
Negre, Marianna: The influence of multilingualism on learning the English language
Pecsora, Krisztina: 'Coursebooks are needed much more by the pupils than teachers': the analyses of English textbooks for forms 5 and 6 used in Transcarpathian Hungarian schools
Pillar, Granville W.: Video-text versus audio-text as stimulus for L2 instruction and assessment
Szerencsi, Katalin: A linguistic analysis of top American presidential inauguration addresses
Szőcs, Krisztina: Language teachers' perception regarding language learning autonomy and self-assessment in a Hungarian secondary school context
Vraukó, Tamás: "Breeding" texts for translation practice
Contributors
Preface
The first conference on foreign language teaching at the Rákóczi Institute took place in 2002. Twelve years have passed since that time. Much has also changed in our profession in Ukraine. At that time the main focus was on the launch of a foreign language as a compulsory school subject in Class 2 of the lower primary school, while twelve years later the primary attention shifted to the introduction of the Independent Testing in foreign languages for school leavers.
In between, language pedagogy and applied linguistics as a closely related discipline have been continuously developing and producing new fields for research. Therefore, the Department of Philology (English Language and Literature Group) at the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute has decided to organize an international forum with the aim of providing opportunities for researchers to introduce their findings about the latest trends in language pedagogy and applied linguistics and share their results with those interested.
Experts from Hungary, the UK, the USA, the Sultanate of Oman and Ukraine presented at the conference on various topics ranging from teaching young learners to teacher education. We were pleased to have Prof. Péter Medgyes, Prof. Marianne Nikolov, Edit Kontra, PhD and Jerry Frank among our plenary speakers. The more than 100 registered participants could listen to presentations in two sections: one on language pedagogy, the other on applied linguistics.
In the first one, the audience could hear about e-books and video-text versus audio-text in the instruction of English. In addition, they could learn about the power and role of poetry in foreign language teaching, among other topics such as content-based language teaching, learner self-assessment, learning strategies of young learners of EFL in Transcarpathian Hungarian schools, or the role of mentors in trainee teachers' teaching practicum.
In the second section on applied linguistics, the participants obtained information on research going on in related fields of study like pragmatics or cognitive linguistics. Also, socio-linguistic themes such as multilingualism were discussed. The present volume containing the written-up versions of the presentations at the conference has been published with the aim to reach a wider audience.
On 15 August, 2015 in Beregszász
The Editors