IF 0.1 4区文学

Verbum Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.15388/verb.34

R. Kriaučiūnienė, Rasa Šlikaitė

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Arqus University Alliance Staff Members' Linguistic and Intercultural Needs: Survey Results Arqus大学联盟员工的语言和跨文化需求:调查结果

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Verbum Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.15388/verb.36

Simone Klinge, Barbara Gödeke

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Multilingualism as a Key Challenge for Higher Education Language Policy: The ARQUS Perspective 多语化是高等教育语言政策面临的关键挑战:ARQUS视角

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Verbum Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.15388/verb.35

Olaf Bärenfänger, A. Delgado, Kerstin Gackle

{"title":"Multilingualism as a Key Challenge for Higher Education Language Policy: The ARQUS Perspective","authors":"Olaf Bärenfänger, A. Delgado, Kerstin Gackle","doi":"10.15388/verb.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/verb.35","url":null,"abstract":"Language plays an essential role in education, where it serves as both the medium of instruction and key to communication. To warrant successful teaching, learning, research and academic mobility, universities must develop a clear vision about the role of language(s) at their institution. For example, they must develop strategies to promote continual growth of their students’ and staff’s professional and academic language skills. This article will report on an initiative undertaken within the Arqus European University Alliance to formulate a comprehensive language policy. To do so, five thematic areas essential to language policies in higher education were identified and questions were developed to gather information from all of the partner universities. This information was then incorporated in the planning and design of a language policy for the Alliance. The Arqus Language Policy now stands as a guideline for university members to develop a clear vision of language in higher education as well as a joint reflection and agreement on the role of multilingual communication in society. In the second phase of the project, further actions and measures can be planned on this basis.","PeriodicalId":42449,"journal":{"name":"Verbum","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42135408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Developing an institutional language policy in the complex scenario of internationalization 在国际化的复杂场景中制定机构语言政策

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Verbum Pub Date : 2022-12-14 DOI: 10.15388/verb.32

Caroline Clark

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The impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Language Teaching in Higher Education, CercleS survey 新冠肺炎疫情对高等教育语言教学的影响，CercleS调查

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Verbum Pub Date : 2022-12-14 DOI: 10.15388/verb.33

Sabina Schaffner, Isabella Stefanutti

{"title":"The impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Language Teaching in Higher Education, CercleS survey","authors":"Sabina Schaffner, Isabella Stefanutti","doi":"10.15388/verb.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/verb.33","url":null,"abstract":"In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a move online of language teaching in Higher Education (HE). The CercleS survey on the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on language teaching in HE aimed to study teachers’ reflections on teaching during the pandemic and on the future of foreign language instruction. Data was collected between March and May 2021, and the answers reflect the voices of 725 teachers from CercleS member institutions of both national associations and associate members. The survey was written using a mixed method approach, based on a pragmatic epistemology. The findings indicate that the teachers moved flexibly into the online mode of teaching despite limitations in technological resources and the absence of training. Learning outcomes were met, and language skills were effectively taught, except for speaking skills. Generally, the respondents see the benefits of a blended/hybrid mode of instruction. Implications for teaching practices and stakeholders are as follows: develop guidelines and training for sustainable online and hybrid teaching; negotiate conditions needed to carry out efficient and sustainable language teaching with university management; and develop international collaboration between LCs in HE.","PeriodicalId":42449,"journal":{"name":"Verbum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46024047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dialect Grapholects at the Beginning of the 21st Century as a Manifestation of the Vitality and Continuity of Dialectal Codes 21世纪初的方言笔记:方言语码的生命力和延续性的体现

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Verbum Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.15388/verb.31

D. Aliūkaitė, Violeta Meiliūnaitė

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The Language of Returning Emigrant Children: Preliminary Insights 归国移民儿童的语言:初步见解

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Verbum Pub Date : 2022-07-07 DOI: 10.15388/verb.30

Lina Bikelienė, Rita Juknevičienė, Nida Poderienė, Joana Pribušauskaitė, Aurelija Tamulioniene

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From a Lexical Verb to a Pragmatic Marker: The Case of the French falloir ‘have to/must’ 从词汇动词到语用标记:法语falloir“have to/must”的例子

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Verbum Pub Date : 2022-06-14 DOI: 10.15388/verb.29

Vita Valiukienė

{"title":"From a Lexical Verb to a Pragmatic Marker: The Case of the French falloir ‘have to/must’","authors":"Vita Valiukienė","doi":"10.15388/verb.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/verb.29","url":null,"abstract":"The paper seeks to present a semantico-functional analysis of the French verb falloir. The empirical data are obtained from a parallel corpus – the Corpus Parallèle de Textes Littéraires (CTLFR-LT), which is composed of French literary texts and their translations into Lithuanian. The paper uses quantitative, qualitative and comparative methods. It is based on the studies focusing on the polysemy of modal verbs (Chu 2010; Dendale 1994; Kronning 1988; Le Querler 2001; Rossari 2012) as well as on the development of discourse markers in language (Dostie 2004; Vold 2008). \u0000The findings show that the verb falloir, while maintaining its core meaning of necessity, can express conjecture. When it is used in patterns together with verbs of saying (verba cogitandi and dicendi) and verbs of visual perception, falloir no longer functions as a marker of necessity and becomes a pragmatic marker of connection and argumentation. \u0000The analysis of the translations of the French verb falloir into a typologically different language, Lithuanian, has also confirmed the entrenched use of the verb in question in the modal field of necessity and its rich functional potential in the French literary texts. The paper contributes to the existing contrastive studies between the French and Lithuanian languages, which are not numerous. The findings of the research could serve didactic purposes as well as add to the field of translation studies.","PeriodicalId":42449,"journal":{"name":"Verbum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48499778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Nouns of Lithuanian Slang with the Slavic suffixes: Borrowings and Hybrids 带有斯拉夫后缀的立陶宛俚语名词:借用词和混合词

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Verbum Pub Date : 2022-06-07 DOI: 10.15388/verb.28

Robertas Kudirka

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Crocodiles, pallettari, limeurs and arrotini: The Cultural Charge of the Slang Terms of the Tennis Lexicon in French and Italian Sports Dictionaries 鳄鱼，pallettari, limeurs和arrotini:法语和意大利语体育词典中网球词汇俚语的文化冲击

IF 0.1 4区文学

Verbum Pub Date : 2022-04-05 DOI: 10.15388/verb.27

Valerio Emanuele

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