Learners sometimes have incoherent and fragmented intuitive prior knowledge that is (partly) "incompatible" with the to-be-learned contents. Such knowledge in pieces can cause conceptual disorientation and cognitive overload while learning. We hypothesized that a pre-training intervention providing a generalized schema as a structuring framework for such knowledge in pieces would support (re)or...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the pursuit of achievement goals in medical students and to assess the relationship between achievement goals, learning strategy, and motivation. METHODS Two hundred seventy freshman and sophomore premedical students and sophomore medical school students participated in this study, which used the Achievement Goals Scale and the Self-Regulate...

This article describes preliminary results of a comparative study of communicative behaviour in Danish and Spanish negotiation interaction. The position is taken that from a socio-psychological point of view negotiation strategies may be accounted for in terms of face needs and feeling and display rules. It is argued that distributive behaviour is prevailing in both cultures, but that the corre...

Owing to the growing interest in communicative, cultural and pragmatic aspects of second language learning in recent years, the present study tried to investigate representations of pragmatic aspects of English as a foreign language in Iranian high school textbooks. Using Halliday’s (1978), and Searle’s (1976) models, different language functions and speech acts were specifically determined and...

The research is performed in the linguopragmatic aspect, which involves actualization of communicative interaction speaker and recipient different types discourse. object analysis was presidential discourse as a manifestation political public speeches addresses President Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky delivered 2019-2021 are considered. concept strategy main parameter defined approaches linguists t...

The research is devoted to the study of actualization meanings in a literary text. based on material medieval novel. subject was corpus texts chivalric novels. In aggregate, (linguistic-rhetorical) works. analysis carried out from position studying author's strategy influencing reader order have certain attitude hero or plot work. novels conceptually different strategies works other genres. fac...

The authors of the article analyze literary heritage N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky, a writer who has worked in variety genres from fairy tale to story, story drama. writers dramaturgy characterizes by relatively low percentage rate coverage studies on theoretical level, although it comprises number significant features that reflect drama development at turn 19th-20th centuries changes dramatic langua...