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Banko, Miroslaw; Witalisz, Alicja; Hansen, Karolina – Language Awareness, 2022
This article reports on a study whose aim was to analyze the relation between the level of declarative purism and the preference for a particular loanword adaptation technique. Evidence from many languages shows that language purists accept foreign words more readily if they are in a native disguise; as a consequence, they choose adaptation…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Polish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Otwinowska, Agnieszka – Language Awareness, 2017
The training of language teachers still follows traditional models of teachers' competences and awareness, focusing solely on the target language. Such models are incompatible with multilingual pedagogy, whereby languages are not taught in isolation, and learners' background languages are activated to enhance the process. When teaching…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Multilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics
Scheffler, Pawel – Language Awareness, 2011
The need for some form of explicit grammar instruction is recognised in most current approaches to second language teaching. Since the usefulness of explicit instruction is at least to some extent dependent on the difficulty of the rules that are taught, an important question for teachers is whether their judgements of rule difficulty are…
Descriptors: Sentences, Grammar, Correlation, English (Second Language)
Berry, Roger – Language Awareness, 2009
Two hundred and ninety-six English majors at universities in Poland, Austria and Hong Kong were given a 50-item questionnaire designed to evaluate their knowledge of grammatical terminology. The main aim was to identify whether the three populations were subject to differing "terminological cultures". This was found to be substantially…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Foreign Countries