Foreign Language Information Research Articles

Zum Wesen der fremdsprachlichen Einkodierungsprozesse. On the nature of the foreign-language encoding-processes.

The following article considers the concept of the trichotomous arrangement of codeprocesses involved in acquiring foreign languages. It particularly focuses on the site, course, and results of processes whereby foreign-language structures are encoded. The processes of encoding known foreign-language structures take place: first, during the completion of consolidating exercises that aim at attaining appropriate proficiency; second, in the course of decoding and coding foreign-language information; and third, in the course of ego-centered communicative processes, in which the language user fulfills the function both of sender and of receiver.

Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages with ICT

Abstract The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning foreign languages has risen sharply among the educational community. Teachers access and implement innovations without always realizing their full implications for them and their students. However, this is not necessarily a negative thing, because if no one used innovations, little progresses would be made and there would be nothing to evaluate. The article presents certain features of ICT that can be used to good advantage in a rich learning environment, and the use of video as an ICT tool in the foreign language class. The paper also discusses the role of the teacher in implementing technologies and we argue that it is the teacher, not the technology who determines the quality of the learning and teaching. There are people who are afraid that the teacher’s role would be compromised if we integrate information communication technologies in education; however we militate for a ‘techno-humanistic’ system, in which teachers, learners and technology would form a lasting meaningful alliance.

Analysis of nurses′ information ability and influencing factors in Age of Big Data

Objective To understand and analyze the information ability of the nurses, as well as the role of hospital library in the improving of nurse information ability. Methods Questionnaire survey was adopted to collect the basic information of the nursing staff and the information of the relevant data such as collecting, screening and evaluation ability. we analyzed the final selected data with SPSS 17.0 software for statistical analysis. Results A total of 1 264 valid data was extracted, and nearly 60% of the nursing staff most commonly used the search strategies of enter multiple keywords and subject words and keywords . The correct rate of searching foreign language information and domestic information were 15.10% and 44.86%. In addition, 43.34% of the nurses screened the information by the time of publication and citation inferior. Conclusions The information ability of nursing staffs in general hospital is still at a low level, and presents the tendency of positive correlation with education level, but reduces with the increase of working life. Key words: Library, hospital; Information acquirement; Nursing staff; Influencing factors

Cognitive readiness for intercultural communication as an essential component of intercultural competence

Abstract. The article deals with the implementation of cross-cultural oriented training to higher vocational school language education. The necessity of a student’s cognitive personality development in the process of intercultural competence formation is discussed. The intercultural competence structure that includes three levels of parameters (the level of the basic parameters, the level of key parameters, the level of cognitive parameters), necessary for ef-fective cross-cultural interaction, is presented. The notion of “cognitive readi-ness for intercultural communication”, which is, to authors’ opinion, crucial for the productivity of intercultural communication is introduced. It consists in conscious attitude to intercultural communication as the process of the world cognition, its goals and objectives, process and outcomes. The stages of the educational process aimed at integrated development of communicative skills of intercultural communication and cognitive readiness for intercultural com-munication are described. They provide the integrated development of differ-ent cognitive strategies as part of communicative language teaching. The ex-amples of exercises that help implement cognitive orientation of training into the development of students’ communicative skills within one lexical and grammatical topic are proposed. Pedagogical conditions to be created in the educational process are referred. These include: 1) polymodality of students’ perceptual experience; 2) multiaspectiveness of communicative exercises that allows combining different cognitive strategies; 3) a specific sequence of ex-ercises; 4) the dominance of group work activities that provides students with the opportunity to solve communicative tasks in collaboration, integrating var-ious strategies of perception, processing and interpretation of foreign language information.

Foreign language education and information transmission in the age of globalization

Foreign language education and information transmission in the age of globalization

CRITICAL THINKING TECHNOLOGY AS EFFECTIVE MEANS OF DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE MANAGERS’ LANGUAGE COMPETENCE

The aim of the study is to consider the problem of the improvement of the students-managers linguistic competence. Methods. The analysis of the features of the linguistic competence formation of the future managers with the help of critical thinking technology was used at the initial stage. The model of the organization of the effective foreign language practicals is developed by means of pedagogical simulation. The testing of the control and the experimental groups with the future statistical data processing is used to evaluate the developed model effectiveness. Results. Methods and teaching techniques are used in compliance with each stage of cognitive activity. The necessary requirements while the organization and the conducting of the foreign language practicals when critical thinking skills learning are stated. The role of the professionally-oriented foreign texts in the higher educational institutions for the critical thinking development and the improvement of the future managers’ linguistic competence is identified. Scientific novelty. A model of foreign language practicals for students of economics using the stages of cognitive activity and methods and techniques of critical thinking is developed. The dependence between the requirements for foreign language practicals and information mastery level is defined. Practical significance. The complex of foreign language practicals for students of economics increasing the level of language training is developed on the basis of theoretical survey and experimental data.

The role of foreign language in formation of future advertising experts’ professional mobility.

The paper reveals the meaning of professional mobility, gives some definitions and proves the actuality of its forming in training process of future advertising experts. It demonstrates some examples of “horizontal” mobility among advertising experts. Cognition and communication are main aspects of educational activity which are integrated while learning English. Foreign language doesn’t become the objective of education, but it is the mean of acquisition and exchanging information and satisfaction the communication need. Communicative approach is considered to be the main technology in educational process. Foreign language promotes the development of professional mobility due to intersubject communications, communicative focus and development of cognitive and personal students’ characteristics. Main components of teaching process are disclosed. Pedagogical conditions for formation of professional mobility are defined: intersubject communications, use of information technologies and active forms and innovative methods of teaching. Main forms of interactive technologies are business and role games, multimedia presentations and discussions. The integration of interactive technologies and intersubject communication is described while teaching foreign language for specific purposes. The perspective of further research is the development of teaching courses based on integration of special subjects with foreign language.

Übungen als Grundlage für fremdsprachliche Einkodierungsprozesse

Various forms of language-activity influence the acquisition of a foreign language. In this article, the author underlines the importance of foreign-language exercises, and their effectiveness in the developing the learner’s encoding of decoded foreign-language information structures in the form of constant structure-matrices. The theories of teaching and learning drawn on in the article point to the variety of methods and degrees of foreign-language acquisition, both through cognitive exercises and through the pattern approach. Such exercises develop receptive and productive language-communication skills.

Factors controlling consumer behaviour in frontier towns

AbstractThis article focuses on the most important factors shaping the spatial behaviour of transborder consumers in Słubice and Frankfurt on the Oder, towns split by a state border. The factors are highly diversified and differ in the spatial range of influence. They can be divided into seven groups, viz. geographical, political- administrative, legal-normative, economic, demographic, psycho-social and cultural, and the foreign-language information layout of a town. But it is economic factors, like the level of prices in the given country or the currency exchange rate, that have the strongest effect on the movement of inhabitants and the intensity of transborder contacts between the two frontier towns

Cultural Shifts: Putting Critical Information Literacy into Practice

This paper uses the example of foreign languages to explore the integration of critical information literacy into the curriculum of various disciplines. By closely examining the practices and values inherent in the foreign language information environment, the paper suggests that a critical vision of information literacy provides the most appropriate approach to help meet campus goals of educating students for transcultural competence. As such, the paper provides an example of the process and role of the librarian in integrating critical information literacy into disciplinary fields and proposes that this approach could be effective in global learning initiatives.

Social Psychological Factors Affecting the Employment of Graduate Students in Taiwan

In this study the researchers use principal factor analysis to identify the factors affecting the competitiveness of college graduate students in the job market, based on a sample of senior students enrolled in an undergraduate school. The analysis revealed 5 factors that influence the students' employment prospects: learning ability, foreign language ability, cooperation, information technology, and interpersonal relations. We also analyze the effect of differences in gender and family economic circumstances in relation to the 5 factors, and conclude that these influence both students' employment prospects and their career planning.

Implication and development of foreign information competence in higher school

The author compares information and IT competences independently singling out foreign language information competence. The latter is considered as a precondition for professionalism and successful professional careers in most fields where information in foreign languages matters. The author also states the key aspects of teaching foreign languages which influence the competence in question.

Agricultural e-government in China, Korea, Taiwan and the USA

E-government provides information and services by websites. Using the functions of e-government described by West (2000), we discuss government agricultural websites in China, Korea, Taiwan and the USA, and suggest improvement. The findings indicate that general functions, viz. online information, services, foreign language access, restricted area and information sharing, are established. Greater effort should be made for advanced functions, viz. disability access, privacy and security and advertisement and user pay system. The result of this research serves as reference for other countries in developing their agricultural e-government.

Providing Access to Consumer Health Information for the Russian-Speaking Population

Providing health information for a multi-language patient population is one of the important functions of hospital librarians today. The lack of satisfactory quality information in foreign languages often complicates a librarian's work and can compromise the whole health services delivery process for this population. This article discusses a Web site called MedInfoRus <medinforus.homestead.com/MedInfoRus.html>, which was created to help fill this gap. The Web site provides an extensive amount of medical information in Russian for a population with limited English language skills. It includes patient information, dictionaries, electronic publications, and other sources that can apply to the consumer population as well as members of the medical staff. A very important tool available at MedInfoRus is the PubMed Guide in Russian, developed by the authors for both Russian-speaking medical professionals and consumers of medical information with limited or non-existent experience in searching medical databases.

Finding Consumer Health Information in Other Languages

As our society becomes more diverse, patrons visit the library to look for health information in languages other than English. Locating this material is a challenge. The World Wide Web is a good source. This paper presents an introduction to Web resources for consumer health information in foreign languages and basic search strategies for locating it.

A Comparison Study of Student Retention of Foreign Language Video: Declarative versus Interrogative Advance Organizer

The present study compared student retention of information in foreign language (FL) videos in 2 advance organizer conditions. The participants were 67 college students enrolled in 5 sections (4 experimental sections and 1 control section) of a beginning‐level French course. In the advance organizer declarative (AO.) condition, the teacher read aloud 6 sentences that summarized, in chronological order, major scenes in the upcoming video. In the advance organizer interrogative (AO?) condition, the teacher began by reading aloud the same 6 sentences, but this time each declarative sentence had been transformed into a question. For each question, the teacher suggested 3 possible answers, making no indication as to which one was correct. The control condition consisted of a group of students who watched the same videos as in the AO. and the AO? conditions, but had no advance organizer before the video viewings. Student performance with 10 videos introduced in each of these 3 ways was examined on tests of information in the videos. Results indicated that although there were no significant differences in scores between the two AO experimental groups, students in both the AO. and the AO? conditions scored significantly higher on the tests than did the control group. The researchers interpreted these findings as supporting the premise that it is significantly better to incorporate an advance organizer with video than not, and as indicating that both declarative and interrogative AOs can facilitate extensive listening in the FL classroom.

Una introducción a la literatura científica

We discuss the convenience of an early introduction of undergraduate students to the reading of scientific papers, mostly divulgative or historical. This can encourage them to deeper readings and to search and discover in the scientific writings new sources of learning and pleasure. The aim of this activity is twofold: mainly, to approach the students to bibliographical sources different from the traditional textbooks and, collaterally, to habituate them to get acquainted with scientific information in foreign languages (mostly English). In this manner, the students can get further knowlegde and they can also learn new points of view or different topics from those commonly discussed during a typical academic course.

Langston Hughes and 'Common Ground' in the 1940s

The 1940s form a curious period in the literary career of Langston Hughesthat generous, modest, and prodigiously productive major American author from Harlem. Not that Hughes himself is responsible for any confusion; his literary critics are. One commentator describes Hughes' work during the decade as an increasingly disillusioned retrenchment from his optimistic proletarian internationalism of the 30s, another sees a movement away from bitter protest toward lighter humor, and a third does not comment'on the 40s at all.1 Hughes' contributions to the Common Council for American Unity (CCAU) and its quarterly, Common Ground, dispel some of this confusion as well as help to fill in the biographical void that looms beyond 1938 when his second and final volume of autobiography, I Wonder as I Wander, closes. After Hughes' radical activities during the 1930s, his affiliation with the CCAU seems to signal a patriotic shift in the 40s. The CCAU, although established in 194.0, was actually a reconstitution of the Foreign Language Information Services (FLIS) founded in 1918. For more than twenty years, FLIS tried to give native born Americans accurate information on foreign born groups, and [overcome] false prejudice and misunderstandings which stand in the way of assimilation, in short, to interpret America to the alien, and the alien to America.2 The Service addressed its foreign and native born

Kodematik und ihre metaglottodidaktische Relevanz

This article deals with glottodidactic processes, seen on a level that goes beyond purely didactic-linguistic issues, that is, a level that considers their more specialized forms and that is a domain of other academic fields. The subject of the article is metaglottodidactic information concerning processes of decoding, processing, storing, and encoding language structures while learning and acquiring them. The author refers, in particular, to select problems from the field of codematics and the theory of control in processes of coding (generating and producing) foreignlanguage information on the part of the sender, the interindividual transferring of that information, the phonetic-phonological, grapho-graphic, and semantic-grammatical decoding and processing in the receiver’s language center

Social Problems in the Education of the Immigrant Child

I N VIEW OF the fact that restrictions upon immigration have been in force in the United States since ig22, a number of pertinent questions regarding immigrants have been raised by teachers, social workers, and laymen alike. These questions are indicative not only of the range of problems involved but of the attitudes entertained by Americans toward the immigrant child and his culture, and show the misconceptions and the lack of adequate appreciation of the nature of the problems by the very people who are in considerable measure guiding the destinies of the immigrant. Is there still an immigration problem? From the United States Census we learn that in 1930 there were over I4,000,000 foreign-born and over 26,000,ooo persons of foreign or mixed parentage, making a total of over 40,000,000, or almost one-third of the country's population composed of first and second generation immigrants. In spite of this astonishing total, the Foreign Language Information Service tells us that popular interest in the problems of the immigrant has greatly decreased of late. While immigration has reached its lowest point during the depression and many immigrants have been repatriated by the government, the country still faces a vast problem of assimilation. The question was asked of six hundred American-born children (fifth to eighth grade) of foreign-born parents: How many considered themselves fully Americanized? No more than fifteen per cent replied in the affirmative. Again it was asked: How many came from homes where there was no between the New and the Old World standards? Not more than ten per cent denied existence of conflicts. (Of course, every precaution was taken in giving the children the proper interpretation of conflict and Americanization.) Why should we single out the educational needs of the immigrant child? There is every indication that the immigrant child recognizes his