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Language Processes And Bilingualism In Polyethnic Environment: The Envistigation In The Republic Of Tatarstan
Norair M. Asratyan
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Rustam M. Gibadullin
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Zoya D. Asratyan
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Rustem R. Magizov
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Roza V. Nurullina
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Irina I. Shpeka
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Maksim V. Levchenko
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Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Branch in Naberezhnye Chelny city
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Branch in Naberezhnye Chelny city
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Branch in Naberezhnye Chelny city
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Branch in Naberezhnye Chelny city
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Branch in Naberezhnye Chelny city
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Branch in Naberezhnye Chelny city
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Branch in Naberezhnye Chelny city
The contemporary globalizing society incorporates human beings into complicated relations of the multicultural environment influencing them in different ways which results in various combinations of ethnic and poly-ethnic identity in their consciousness. If it takes the form of eclectic fragmentation of cultural influences, the product is a painful identity crisis. However, this cannot be completely avoided either because of the rapidly gaining speed of globalist tendencies or because of the poly-ethnicity of the Russian society itself. The material of this article is the results of studies of the situation and trends in this field. These investigations were conducted by us at regular intervals since 1989 in the multinational city of Naberezhnye Chelny (the Republic of Tatarstan). The late 80-s and early 90-s brought about a situation when the silence on negative processes in the sphere of inter-ethnic relations was replaced by rapid dynamism and sharp contradictions associated with the end of the Soviet era. It was the interethnic sphere that was most of all affected by those contradictions. Naberezhnye Chelny is a mono-industrial city in the Republic of Tatarstan with the multinational population which emerged in the period of the construction of the KAMAZ plant. At present it is inhabited by more than 530 thousand people, including 47,4% of Tatars and 44,9% of Russian citizens. The rest are representatives of other diverse nationalities. The Republic of Tatarstan itself as a part of the Russian Federation is a visible example of a multi-ethnic and multicultural space. It is home to representatives of 115 nationalities. Official languages: Tatar, Russian. Tatars make up 53.2 % of the whole population, Russians —39.7 %.
Methods of a longitudinal research allow making a comparative analysis of the empirical data that have been accumulating for several decades since 1989. The last empirical survey was conducted by us in 2017. This survey of Naberezhnye Chelny residents aged over 18 was carried out according to a stratified (regionalized) sample (N = 650).
The article reflects the contradictions between ethnic groups on lingual issues, the different attitude of Russians and Tatars to bilingualism. It reveals their peculiarities in understanding these problems and underlines the necessity of either compulsory or optional learning of the Tatar language at school. The article also reflects the evolutionary dynamics of the assessments themselves.
The article reflects the contradictory estimates of the processes of national development and the state of interethnic relations by the respondents, their attitude to the Tatar and Russian languages, as well as the evolutionary dynamics of the assessments themselves.
http://mjltm.org/article-1-173-en.pdf
Methnos
nation
language
bilingualism
identity
poly-ethnic environment
international relations
ethnic self-conscience
All-Russian identity
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Derivation As The Main Way Of Adapting New Terms To Arabic
Raheem Ali Al-foadi
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University of Baghdad
The classical Arabic grammarians firmly worked to maintain the Arabic by adapting the non-Arabic terms and applying the potential abilities of phonological, morphological and semantic systems of Arabic language to make foreign terms adaptable. This process was made by several ways on which the linguists relied to keep the identity of Arabic. Derivation is the most effective way by which the non-stopped modernization of Arabic is done. Derivation makes Arabic able to receive the foreign terms and adapt them to itself; it also works as the most important way of enriching Arabic with native words that are semantically equivalent to foreign terms. The ability of other ways to adapt foreign terms to Arabic is checked by the mechanism of comparing them with derivation. This mechanism is based on five criteria: (1) semantic maintenance; (2) easy cognitive access; (3) morphological pattern set; (4) ability to recreate according to the pattern set; (5) applying the Arabic language system of self-defense. The results of this comparison show that derivation is the safest and the most effective way to adapt and assimilate foreign terms to Arabic, it must be called "the trusted keeper" of Arabic.
http://mjltm.org/article-1-174-en.pdf
Derivation
arabization
Arabic
root
Arabic language system of self-defense
translation.
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The Impact of Teaching English Synonym and Antonym Pairs Adjacently and Non-Adjacently on Iranian EFL Learners\' Vocabulary Learning and Retention
Fahimeh Tajik
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Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, ELT Department of Higher Education, Karaj, Iran
The present study investigated the effects of teaching English synonym and antonym pairs adjacently and non-adjacently on Iranian EFL learners' vocabulary learning and retention. In so doing, the study utilized an experimental design with 80 randomly selected participants ranging in age from 15 to 25 who were assigned into four experimental groups of 20. The results of a pre-test indicated that the participants of the two groups were homogenous regarding their proficiency level. All groups were exposed to the synonym and antonym pairs illustrated with pictures and Microsoft Power-Points slides. After interventions, immediate and delayed post-tests were administered with 2 weeks interval. The researcher came to the conclusion that teaching new words out of context might be as helpful as teaching them within the language context (co-text); teaching synonyms and antonyms gives the language learners an opportunity to enhance their memory for semantically-related words; teaching synonyms and antonyms in separate sessions with short intervals in between might positively affect the students' long term memory for words and consolidate their experience of learning words in a foreign language.
http://mjltm.org/article-1-177-en.pdf
Antonyms
Retention
Synonyms
Teaching Adjacently and Non-adjacently
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A Correlation Study on Achievement of English Learners
Nor Zaitolakma Abdul Samad
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Norhayati Husin
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Masliza Mat Zali
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Razita Mohamad
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Azman Che Mat
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UiTM Terengganu, Dungun Campus, Malaysia
UiTM Terengganu, Dungun Campus, Malaysia
UiTM Terengganu, Dungun Campus, Malaysia
UiTM Terengganu, Dungun Campus, Malaysia
UiTM Terengganu, Dungun Campus, Malaysia
This present study was conducted to re-examine motivation and attitude of language learners and its correlation to their learning achievement. Low English language proficiency among Malaysian students has drawn researchers’ attention to conduct the study within higher learning institution. This cross-sectional study was carried out involving 329 participants those were required to respond for self-administered questionnaire and taking four language skills test which was developed by researchers with the assistant of experience language lecturers. Descriptive and inference analysis were adopted to answer the research objectives. The finding has demonstrated that participants of the study have higher integrative motivation (8.07) and moderate level attitudes towards the learning of English language (6.81). However correlation test has shown a there is a low correlation (r = 0.111) between students’ motivation and English language achievement tests. Whereby there is a moderately low correlation (r = 0.224) between students’ attitude and English language achievement tests. In future investigations it might be possible to study other types of motivation such as intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in order to determine the success for language learners.
http://mjltm.org/article-1-187-en.pdf
Motivation
Attitude
Achievement
Proficiency
success
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Strategy for Enhancing Skills of English for Forensic Medicine
Mariana Coancă
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Romanian-American University, 1B Expozitiei Blvd., Bucharest 012101, Romania
There are relatively few studies on the language of forensic medicine. This paper intends to fill this gap and to shed light on the relationship between legal medicine and forensic medicine. Furthermore, building on previous research, we use a corpus-based approach to identify and to investigate frequent terms. Thus, we determine the features of the forensic medicine language to build an innovative strategy for teaching and learning English for Forensic Medicine. Our aim is to analyze the interdisciplinary character of this language and to enhance our students’ language skills through a responsive framework that meets their needs. More precisely, we address the process of developing language learners into reflective practitioners in this digital era and how to implement task-based learning in medicolegal communication. The paper concludes that our strategy has a two-fold outcome: to create an engaging environment for our students and to help them grasp concepts which reveal the intersection between sciences and practices within the domain of forensic medicine.
http://mjltm.org/article-1-188-en.pdf
special language
forensic medicine
interdisciplinarity
English for Forensic Medicine
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Creating A Positive Climate: A Didactic Resource For English Language Assessment
Aygul Z. Ibatova
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Tyumen Industrial University, Volodarskey Str, 38; Tyumen 625000, Russia
In the article the author offers educational technology didactic business game as a method of knowledge control in order to relieve the psychological discomfort of students. Unbalanced students, inadequate behavior in testing classes is an urgent problem at the universities. The author describes the solution of this problem through the correct choice of the testing lessons organization form, namely, the exam in the form of didactic business games.
http://mjltm.org/article-1-190-en.pdf
didactic business game
form of lesson
control
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Personal Metadiscourse: A Comparative Study of Pakistani English with the British and American Varieties
Ansa Sattar
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Dr. Muhammad Asim Mahmood
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Dr.Musarrat Azher
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Tayyaba Yasmin
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PhD Scholar,Department of Applied Linguistics,Govt college university Faisalabad
Chairperson department of Applied Linguistics,Govt college university Faisalabad
Assistant Prof.Department of English,University of sargodah
Lecturer in English,University of Education,Lahore
Personal metadiscourse makes direct reference to the writer or reader of current text by means of pronouns and nouns. The pronominal forms act as visibility markers in the text and/or an attempt to evoke reader’s involvement in textual interaction. This research aims to paint a comprehensive picture of the patterns of personal metadiscourse used in written texts by Pakistani learners and native speakers of English. The data used for this research consists of argumentative essays written by Pakistani advanced learners of English and compared with the essays written by British and American university students. The data has been taken from the International Corpus of Learner English. The data was analyzed to get the frequency of personal metadiscoruse across the corpora. The concordance lines of personal pronouns were also studied to analyze the functions of personal metadiscoruse in Pakistani corpus. The results of the study reveal considerable difference across these corpora. Pakistani learners use more than twice as much personal metadiscourse as the American university students, in turn the American university students’ use twice as much personal metadiscourse as British university students. The analysis of this research shows that British students’ texts are fact-oriented, Pakistani learner’s texts are more expressive and explicit. On the other hand, the AmE learners are more concerned with their imagined reader.
http://mjltm.org/article-1-193-en.pdf
Metadiscourse
Writer
Visibility
personal metadiscourse
explicitness
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Methodology of teaching Russian language and literature
Serdar Oktay
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Saide Sadikoglu
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Konul Memedova
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*School of Tourism & Hotel Management, Near East University, Lefkosa 98010, North Cyprus
**School of Tourism & Hotel Management, Near East University, Lefkosa 98010, North Cyprus
***Department of Psychological Counselling and Guidance, Near East University, Lefkosa 98010, North Cyprus
The method of teaching Russian language begins to teach language to students in primary school. The first method of teaching Russian language is practicing technique. Psychological and pedagogical laws of the learning process are like the needs of the society. At the beginning of these needs are communication tools. The communication tools define the ways of teaching Russian to students according to their language characteristics. The method of teaching Russian language consists of the literary parts of the language skills of students, the concepts of grammar, the change of language system over time (assimilation) and other parts of language science. Methodology; pedagogy, psychology and philosophy at the intersection of disciplines. These disciplines have a common interest.
http://mjltm.org/article-1-194-en.pdf
Teaching
Learning
Language
Methodology