TY - CHAP A1 - Lut, Kateryna A1 - Starenkova, Hanna ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - The Relationship between Language, Culture, and Development of Society T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - The paper analyses specific characteristics of language that influence the development of culture and societies. The problem of the connection between language and culture has occupied the minds of many famous scientists: some believe that language is a part of the culture as a whole; others think that language is only a form of cultural expression. Undoubtedly, language constitutes a vital component of the cultural background underlying social development. Language is an essential means of communication and interaction. However, language is at the same time sovereign about culture as a whole and can be separate from culture or compared to culture as an equal element (i.e., that language is neither a form nor a component of culture). KW - language KW - culture KW - expression KW - development KW - communication KW - interaction KW - component KW - social KW - connection KW - background Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296484 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mangada, Gladys G. ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - ESL/EFL in Teaching and Learning Process T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - Teaching comprises all types of disciplines and teachers need to look outside the confines of English as a Second Language. The acquisition of knowledge comes in a variety of the learners’ educational potential. English as a Second Language in teaching and learning, focuses on active learner’s involvement and reduction of coercion. Indeed, Gibran’s thoughts remain true that “wisdom leads one to discuss his or her potentials. To realize this, teachers in all educational levels have to portray a less dominant classroom role in accord with the importance of classroom interaction in the teaching learning process. N.A. Flaunders retorted that “in the average classroom someone is talking for two-thirds of the time, two-thirds of the task is direct influence.” What does this mean? Students’ participation or interaction in the classroom has a significant content to enhance their linguistic competence and its core basis is how to use the language as the most important factor in the classroom. Comprehending the information caters one to establish a fair and well-balanced condition that teachers are facilitators, and the learners are to stay in the frontline. In today’s classroom setting, the adoption-adaption of teaching strategies focuses on the learners’ ability to have a strong command or fluency of the language. ESL is learned around the globe and the learners’ interests are the primary goals in the teaching and learning pro� cess. Colin Blakemore once said that “True knowledge, as Plato argues, must be within us all, and learning consists of solely of discussing what we already know.” In an ESL classroom, discovery of knowledge is not a new game. Teachers do perform their tasks and the learners serve not as passive listeners but as active recipients in the transformation-sharing of all the five macro skills namely speaking, reading, writing, listening, and viewing. In fact, if commitment, knowledge of subject-matter for independent learning, and management of learning are packaged in one big box, both the teachers and the learners will operate a mutual process of generating a lively culture and quality of educational life. With the aforementioned views I had experienced in teaching ESL, the teacher’s passion for teaching and attitude in dealing with the learners create a strong impact on the learners cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. KW - English KW - teaching process KW - learning process Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296490 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Maniruzzaman, Md. ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - Blended Learning in the New Normal: EFL Student and Teacher Perceptions and Reactions T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - To reopen educational institutions and return to the classroom, we all need to modify how we act to successfully face the challenges of the new normal resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and entailing our insights into and the after-effects of the pandemic. More specifically, the new normal might encompass online education we are getting used to during the pandemic and the age-old onsite education as well. Thoughtfully integrated, online and onsite learning combine to create blended learning. However, the pertinent literature reveals that English as a foreign language (EFL) students and teachers differently perceive and react to blended learning in diverse contexts. This study was designed to explore student and teacher perceptions of and reactions to blended learning in the Department of English, Jahangirnagar University in the new normal. Fifty undergraduates of EFL and eight teachers of the department participated in the study. To collect data from them, the Student Questionnaire and the Teacher Questionnaire were used. And the data were processed by applying the SPSS programme module. The findings revealed that the majority of the students and the teachers had mostly positive perceptions of blended learning, although the former did not have sufficient exposure to online learning and the latter lacked adequate insights into online teaching. Further, both the students and the teachers expressed mostly positive reactions to blended learning in the new normal, though the former deemed online examinations inadequately smooth and reliable, and the latter had insufficient experience of online instruction and assessment. The study categorically recommends reforming the curriculum, adopting relevant instructional strategies, developing suitable materials, customizing the assessment, integrating and installing technology, training the teachers, upskilling the students for blended learning, improving the infrastructure, and adjusting the management. KW - new normal KW - blended learning KW - undergraduates of EFL and teachers KW - perceptions KW - reactions Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296508 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Shtaltovna, Yuliya ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - Linguistic Democratization of the Modern English Language: Functional Parameters of English Youth Slang Neologisms T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - No abstract available. KW - English youth slang KW - neologism Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296514 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ali, Zuraina ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - A Case Study of the Basic Learners’ Struggles in Guessing from Context to Retain Words Learned T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - Guessing meaning from context is a challenging strategy for Second Language Learners (SLLs). In using the strategy, research found that poor students or low proficiency learners struggled in their attempts to use it. Mainly, it was reported that it was due to their vocabulary knowledge was limited. In another aspect, retaining vocabulary learnt is also important. Such is essential since learning vocabulary does not mean knowing the definition only. Yet, learners must also be able to use the vocabulary as they engage in language skills such as reading, writing, speaking and listening. The study aims at finding the hindrances faced among poor students’ using contextual clues in retaining vocabulary. The study employed a case study to collect data from two basic students studying at a tertiary level. The study found that their hindrances in guessing meaning contexts were due to their being confused in guessing meaning when reading a sentence. Also, it was found that they were not able to find clues since they lacked vocabulary to guess correctly. The study implied that guessing meaning from context required sizeable vocabulary knowledge. Therefore, more training is necessary to assist basic learners in being successful in guessing from contexts. KW - contextual clues KW - basic learners KW - vocabulary KW - vocabulary retention KW - vocabulary knowledge Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296529 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Toepfer, Regina T1 - Konfessionelle Übertragungen: Zur volkssprachlichen Rezeption des Kirchenvaters Basilius Magnus im 16. Jahrhundert T2 - Frühneuzeitliche Konfessionskulturen: 1. Nachwuchstagung des VRG Wittenberg 30.09. - 02.10.2004 N2 - Wie wirkt sich die Konfessionalisierung auf die religiöse Lektüre in der Volkssprache aus? Diese Frage wird am Beispiel der im deutschen Sprachraum im 16. Jahrhundert erschienenen Drucke des griechischen Kirchenvaters Basilius von Cäsarea untersucht. An der Umdeutung der asketischen Schriften von der traditionell monastischen zu einer allgemein christlichen Lesart wird ebenso die theologische Überzeugung des Übersetzers sichtbar wie an den polemisch-apologetischen Bemerkungen mehrerer Textausgaben. Sowohl in der innerreformatorischen als auch in der interkonfessionellen Auseinandersetzung um den wahren Glauben wird Basilius eingesetzt. Im Kampf gegen das Interim soll seine Standhaftigkeit als Vorbild dienen, die Reformation zu verteidigen, wohingegen ihn die katholischen Übersetzer als Zeugen der Alten Kirche und Beleg für die Rechtgläubigkeit der römischen Kirche anführen. Neben konfessionellen Unterschieden lassen sich auch Gemeinsamkeiten aufzeigen. Vertreter unterschiedlicher Religionsparteien übersetzen die Moralhomilien des Kirchenvaters, um Anweisungen für eine christliche Lebensführung zu erteilen. Aus konfessionskultureller Perspektive betrachtet, präsentieren die deutschen Übertragungen des Basilius Magnus somit ein breites Spektrum, das von konfessioneller Indoktrination bis hin zu konfessionsübergreifender Rezeption reicht. KW - Kirchenvater KW - Konfessionalisierung KW - Rezeption KW - Basilius, Caesariensis KW - Patristik KW - Basilius von Caesarea Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-289729 SN - 978-3-579-05763-7 PB - Gütersloher Verlagshaus ET - accepted version ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Toepfer, Regina T1 - Von der öffentlichen Vorlesung zur Privatlektüre: Der Wandel des humanistischen Bestsellers ‚Ad adolescentes’ des Basilius Magnus in Verwendung und Verfügbarkeit T2 - Offen und Verborgen: Vorstellungen und Praktiken des Öffentlichen und Privaten in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit N2 - Untersucht wird der Gebrauchswandel der Schrift ‚Ad adolescentes‘ des griechischen Kirchenvaters Basilius von Caesarea und das komplexe Spannungsverhältnis ihrer öffentlichen und privaten Rezeption im 15./16. Jahrhundert. Als humanistische Programmschrift war sie Gegenstand öffentlicher Vorlesungen an der Universität Leipzig, deren Wirkung jedoch regional begrenzt war. Als Teil der ‚Opera omnia‘ wurde sie international erhältlich, blieb aber auf die private Lektüre angewiesen. KW - Predigt KW - Buchdruck KW - Kollegheft KW - Privatheit KW - Öffentlichkeit KW - Humanismus Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-287086 SN - 978-3-89244-823-5 PB - Wallstein-Verlag ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kraft, Stephan T1 - Christian Flemmer T2 - Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1620-1720. Literaturwissenschaftliches Verfasserlexikon. Band 3: Feustking, Johann Heinrich – Held, Heinrich N2 - Kein Abstract verfügbar. KW - Flemmer, Christian Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-282561 PB - Walter de Gruyter CY - Berlin u. a. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kraft, Stephan T1 - Paul Rebhuns Susannenspiel : ein paradigmatischer Fall des protestantischen Bibeldramas T2 - Reformation und katholische Reform zwischen Kontinuität und Innovation N2 - Kein Abstract verfügbar. KW - Rebhun, Paul / Ein geistlich Spiel von der gotfurchtigen und keuschen Frawen Susannen KW - Bibel / Daniel <13> KW - Biblisches Drama Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-282522 PB - Königshausen & Neumann CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kraft, Stephan T1 - Vom Umgang mit einem unerhörten Ereignis. Andreas Gryphius: "Ermordete Majestät. Oder Carolus Stuardus" T2 - Geschichte in Geschichten N2 - Kein Abstract verfügbar. KW - Andreas Gryphius: "Ermordete Majestät. Oder Carolus Stuardus" Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-282531 PB - Königshausen & Neumann CY - Würzburg ER -