Language for Specific Purposes Testing: A Historical Review
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2017 Language for specific purposes (LSP) has a long history in the language testing literature. An outgrowth of the communicative language movement of the 1970s, LSP testing arose out of the practical need to assess individuals’ abilities to perform specific
Sott E. Grapin
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Foreign language training for specific purposes
Opera slavica, 2014 The text shares concrete difficulties provoked by the composition and implementation of foreign language course dedicated to specific purposes. Supplying, selecting and arranging of materials, knowledge check, defining of problem fields and isolating of ...
Sonja Aleksandrova
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A Textbook Model in a Foreign Language for Specific Purposes: Tourism Sphere [PDF]
ARPHA Proceedings, 2021 The article deals with the recent problem of teaching a foreign language to specialists in the sphere of service and production. The demand for personnel with a professional linguistic competence has remained high on the labor market over the past decade.
Elena Cherkashina
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Language competence of students of Belgrade Business Academy for applied studies in learning English for specific purposes: Case study [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2022 Growing globalization and continuous demographic changes impose the need for reviewing language programs that must follow modern trends and the needs of students that change in accordance with the requirements of the professional environment, both in the
Kažanegra-Veličković Ana Ž. +1 more
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Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2022 In the article were presented: in the theoretical part: word-formation in contemporary German, compound words as a phenomenon characteristic of the German language, the theory of translation, theory of German for specific purposes as well as the theory ...
Joanna Mazurkiewicz
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Age differences in the effect of animacy on Mandarin sentence processing [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Animate nouns are preferred for grammatical subjects, whereas inanimate nouns are preferred for grammatical objects. Animacy provides important semantic cues for sentence comprehension.
Xinmiao Liu, Wenbin Wang, Haiyan Wang
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Sentence comprehension in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Sentence comprehension is diminished in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (DAT). However, the underlying reason for such deficits is still not entirely clear. The Syntactic Deficit Hypothesis attributes sentence comprehension deficits in DAT
Xinmiao Liu +3 more
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ITALIANO LINGUA TERZA. APPRENDERE E INSEGNARE L’ITALIANO SPECIALISTICO: IL CASO DEL LINGUAGGIO MEDICO / English Title: ITALIAN AS A THIRD LANGUAGE. LEARNING AND TEACHING ITALIAN FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES: THE CASE OF ITALIAN FOR MEDICINE [PDF]
Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes, 2023 In the present paper the issue of teaching medical language in the context of learning Italian as LS will be analysed. The first part of the article consists of general notes on different definitions of the Italian for specific purposes, as well as ...
Katarzyna Maniowska
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The Effect of Distance on Sentence Processing by Older Adults
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 In sentences with long-distance dependency relations (“The man whom the police arrested is thin”), there are two kinds of distance between the gap (object position of arrested) and the filler man: linear (the intervening words in linear order), and ...
Xinmiao Liu, Wenbin Wang
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Foreign language teaching and secondary vocational training in Serbia during interwar period: 1918-1941 [PDF]
Nastava i Vaspitanje, 2015 The paper presents an analysis of foreign language teaching, primarily French, from the aspect of language for specific purposes (LSP) performed in state secondary vocational schools in the interwar period in Serbia.
Stikić Biljana
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