ExELL Pub Date : 2014-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/exell-2016-0004

Višnja Pavičić Takač, Nives Berka

{"title":"Motivation in foreign language learning: a look at type of school environment as a contextual variable","authors":"Višnja Pavičić Takač, Nives Berka","doi":"10.1515/exell-2016-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/exell-2016-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Impelled by the observation that motivation might be one of the most important factors within the affective domain influencing foreign language learning (FLL), the field of second language acquisition (SLA) has seen an intense worldwide interest in empirical research in motivational issues. The studies have been rooted in different theories and methodologies, (most notably those advanced by Gardner and Dörnyei and their respective associates) that have given precedence to a number of variables assumed to play an important role in understanding the phenomenon of FLL motivation. The present study is set between the macroperspective of the social-psychological period–by giving a general view of second language motivation–and the situation-specific period–by taking into consideration the immediate learning context. It focuses on exploring the nature of FLL motivation in Croatia at secondary education level where FLL is part of core curriculum. In particular, it explores the role of one specific contextual variable that has been largely ignored in SLA motivational research, i.e. type of school environment, and its interaction with gender and success in FLL.","PeriodicalId":37072,"journal":{"name":"ExELL","volume":"84 1","pages":"103 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79816329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 11

English language students’ productive and receptive knowledge of collocations 英语学生对搭配的生产性和接受性知识

ExELL Pub Date : 2014-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/exell-2016-0003

Mirna Begagić

{"title":"English language students’ productive and receptive knowledge of collocations","authors":"Mirna Begagić","doi":"10.1515/exell-2016-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/exell-2016-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The importance of collocations in second language learning has been recognized in the past few decades. There have been numerous studies in L2 acquisition research that investigated how the knowledge and use of collocations at different levels of proficiency affect learners’ communicative competence and language performance. Moreover, it seems important to mention that most of the studies investigating the collocational knowledge of students learning English as their L2, indicated students’ poor performance (Fayez-Hussein 1990; Aghbar 1990; Bahns and Eldaw 1993; Stubbs 2002; Wray 2002; Nasselhauf 2005; Ozaki 2011). The aim of this paper is to explain the notion of collocation as well as its most common classification, and to point out the importance of its proper use for English language students who are native speakers of the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) language. Furthermore, this study examines the productive and receptive knowledge of lexical collocations in order to access students’ collocational competence. The results indicate students’ poor collocational knowledge. This can be due to the fact that collocations of the language students are learning are interfering with the collocations of their mother tongue, but also due to the way students are taught English (vocabulary negligence in comparison with grammar and unawareness of the importance of collocations in language learning).","PeriodicalId":37072,"journal":{"name":"ExELL","volume":"10 1","pages":"46 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83231090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 17

Where do we go from here? Method and pedagogy in language teaching 我们从这里往哪里走?语言教学的方法与教学法

ExELL Pub Date : 2014-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/exell-2016-0001

Penny Ur

引用次数: 9

The phonesthetics of blends: A lexicographic study of cognitive blends in the OED 混合的音韵:《牛津英语词典》中认知混合的词典编纂研究

ExELL Pub Date : 2014-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/exell-2016-0002

Chris A. Smith

引用次数: 13

Using authentic materials for students of tourism in Slovenia: English language acquisition for students of the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Maribor 为斯洛文尼亚旅游专业学生使用真实材料:马里博尔大学旅游学院学生的英语语言习得

ExELL Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/exell-2016-0005

Jasna Potočnik Topler

{"title":"Using authentic materials for students of tourism in Slovenia: English language acquisition for students of the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Maribor","authors":"Jasna Potočnik Topler","doi":"10.1515/exell-2016-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/exell-2016-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article examines the process of teaching English for specific purposes at the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Maribor, Slovenia using coursebooks and authentic supplementary materials. The survey has shown that the students of the Faculty of Tourism prefer supplementary authentic materials to coursebooks because they find them sufficiently interesting or challenging. Specially designed classroom materials that are put into the Moodle by the teacher also offer opportunities for various activities in lesson planning for teaching, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Another important aspect of supplementary materials is that they facilitate the teacher’s creativity. However, there are advantages and disadvantages to using only coursebooks or only specially prepared classroom materials, and both - coursebooks and supplementary materials - should be used only after careful consideration. Although authentic materials may contain complex grammatical structures and difficult vocabulary, they bring real-life situations into classrooms, and students therefore find them very motivating, the survey has shown.","PeriodicalId":37072,"journal":{"name":"ExELL","volume":"26 1","pages":"104 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80098466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

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