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Contacts and Contrasts in Educational Contexts and Translation

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Editors:
  1. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

    1. Faculty of Philology, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Konin, Poland

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  • Goes beyond the usual compartmentalized linguistic research and focuses on the phenomena of contact and contrasts between languages and cultures in different contexts
  • Discusses social and cognitive phenomena in foreign language and culture acquisition and translation at the interface of languages and other semiotic codes
  • Sheds new light on the phenomena of language and culture contacts and contrasts

Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Languages and Cultures in Educational Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Studying Parental Attitudes to Intergenerational Transmission of a Heritage Language: Polish in Regensburg

      • Hanna PuÅ‚aczewska
      Pages 3-19

    3. Shukriya’s Story: Negotiating Cultural Dissonance While Learning to Be Literate

      • Barbara Nykiel-Herbert
      Pages 21-44

    4. Tapping the Distinction Between Explicit and Implicit Knowledge: Methodological Issues

      • MirosÅ‚aw Pawlak
      Pages 45-60

    5. Using Boundary Objects in the Methodology of TEFL at the Tertiary Level of Education

      • Agnieszka Gadomska
      Pages 61-71

    6. CLIL Education

      • Agnieszka Borowiak
      Pages 73-83

    7. Teaching Reading Comprehension in a Creative Way

      • Katarína Chválová, Eva Stranovská
      Pages 85-103

    8. An Integrated Approach to Assessment in Translator Training: The Value of Self-reflection

      • Paulina Pietrzak
      Pages 105-115
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About this book

This volume covers descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena and processes which emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in educational and translation contexts. It contains eleven papers, divided into two parts, which focus respectively on the issues of language and culture acquisition and a variety of translation practices (general language, literature, music translation) from socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Philology, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Konin, Poland

    Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

About the editor

Dr. habil. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is a full professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland and head of the Department of Research in Language, Literature and Translation. She previously served for many years as head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Lodz, Poland. She is the author or editor of numerous books and papers on cognitive and corpus linguistics, collaborative knowledge acquisition and translation. She is a recipient of Polish Academy of Sciences awards, was selected as an Honorary Professor in Linguistics and Modern English Language at the University of Lancaster, UK, and has been invited to read papers at conferences and give workshops at various European, American and Asian universities.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contacts and Contrasts in Educational Contexts and Translation

  • Editors: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

  • Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04978-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04977-5Published: 18 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04978-2Published: 05 January 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2193-7648

  • Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 194

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Sociology of Culture

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