Journal of Language and Cultural Education

issue 2014/3 (September 2014)

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Table of contents 

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Teaching literature in contemporary education: The National Curriculum for Literature in Cyprus

Afroditi Athanasopoulou

 

 

Enriching literature-in-English instruction in the context of informal school literary clubs in Nigeria

David O. Fakeye & Ruth  Adebile

 

 

Teaching global English to overseas students

Krzysztof Polok

 

 

Code-switching as a foundation for including multilingualism in English as a foreign language education

Niels de Jong

 

 

Creativity features of SMS texts in French by Anglophone teachers and learners of the French language

Ndobo Eugenie Grace Essoh, Veronica E. Odey & Floribert Patrick Calvain Endong

 

 

Parameters for Assessing the Effectiveness of Language Learning Strategies

Itamar Shatz

 

 

A Comparative Study of Phonological System of Kurdish Varieties

Hiwa Asadpour & Maryam Mohammadi

 

 

Some remarks on recent trends in lexicography

Anna Włodarczyk-Stachurska

 
 

(Multi)cultural inspirations in humanistic development of contemporary students

Aneta Rogalska-Marasińska

 

 

Cultural Customs and Hot Pot: A Case Study of One Sri Lankan Student’s Manner at the Party     

Xiaochi  Zhang

 

 

Literary Studies in the Age of Mechanical Thinking

Anton Pokrivčák

 

 

Patterns of Wisdom in the Old English Poem Andreas

Mária Kiššová

 

 

Human feelings mirrored in metaphors: The Collector by John Fowles

Katarina P. Držajić

 

 

Constructing “Twin-Tower Identities”: Reflections on September 11 in Arab American Poetry

Zuzana Tabačková

 

 

Food as the Representation of Social Conventions in Victorian Female Novel

Agata Buda

 

 

Mythologizing the discourse: Vincent van Gogh in the press of the People’s Republic of Poland

Anna Sikora-Sabat

 

 

Inspirations

 

Art in Foreign Language Education

Ivana Žemberová

 

 

Reviews

 

 

 

Explorations in American Life and Culture

Eva Homolová

 

 

Reports

 

Foreign Languages and Cultures 2014, Nitra 2014

Ivana Žemberová

 

 

 

 

Call for papers for the forthcoming issue (January 2015)

Submission deadline: 7 January 2015

Review process: 2 weeks

Publication fee: 70 EUR

Submission address: slovakedu@gmail.com

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Latest issue: Volume 2, Issue 2 (May 2014)   

Contents

Research papers

 

Classroom Research in Pre-Service Teacher Training: A Case Study

Zuzana Straková

5-15

Change in Beliefs on Language Learning of BA Students in Language Teaching

Jitka Crhová & Ma. Del Rocío Domínguez Gaona

16-32

Development of Critical and Creative Thinking Skills in CLIL

Dana Hanesová

33-51

Romani Language Assessment of Roma Children

Hristo Kyuchukov

52-64

Ways of Developing Methodological Competencies of Literature Students

Jakov Sabljić

65-84

Graphic Novels in Foreign Language Teaching

Ivana Cimermanová

85-94

World Tree, Rosa Mundi, Ship as World Artistic Discourses: Mythological Roots and Representation in Arts

Inna Makarova

95-102

“The Huck Finn novel: Faulkner’s Revision of Twain

Ahmed Elnimeiri

103-122

The Academic Novel in the Context of Contemporary Croatian Literature

Tina Varga Oswald

123-142

Evaluation of France Prešeren’s Poem

Zoran Božič

143-164

Regulating Roma Language and Culture in Central Europe

William New

165-181

 “It’s not important where you are, it’s important what you are”:

International Armenian Cultural Education as a Strategy for Language Maintenance

Anke al-Bataineh

182-203

Enhancing Nigerian Students’ Intercultural Competence and Achievement in Social Studies Through Outdoor Activities

S. O. Ajitoni

204-217

Singing Identities: Expressing British Identities in Sporting Song from the Late Victorian Era to the Eve of the First World War

Paul Newsham

218-232

Transformative Rhetoric: How Obama Became the New Face of America. A Linguistic Analysis

Orly Kayam

233-250

Illocution & Modality: The Case of the Imperative in English & Serbian

Marijana M. Prodanovic

251-260

Slavonic Element in Jewish American English: The Case of Human-specific Vocabulary Items

Anna Dziama

261-272

 

Inspirations

 

Our Common Pedagogical Dilemma: Designing Literary Essay Assignments Not Easily Bought or “Found”

Kathy Nixon

273-280

Facing Grammar Problems with the Aid of Lexicographic Tools

Marta Dick-Bursztyn

281-290

Translation – A Showdown between Languages and Cultures

Kujtim Ramadani

291-301

 

Review

 

Learning a Language through Creeping into Its Culture

Zuzana Tabačková

302-303