The article deals with the concept of linguistic reflection in field foreign language education and its verbalization on metatextual level. ability for is an indicator a developed personality. purpose this research to study students higher school. Definitions key concepts work are given: personality reflection. Linguistic can be verbalized through inclusions: elements metatext. definitions thes...

Introduction. The article deals with the problem of development foreign language communicative competence undergraduate students non-linguistic specialties through application interactive technologies in process teaching languages for specific purposes. formation professional is one essential aspects training modern specialists. Among education techniques, methods based on a person-oriented app...

The debate on grammar in second language acquisition: past, present, and future, is a well written summary of both explicit and implicit grammar instruction in second language acquisition from past to present and with future projections. The thesis holds that explicit grammar instruction plays a very important role in foreign language learning and teaching and argues that English education in C...

Terminology development in education, science and technology is a key to formulating a knowledge society. The authors are developing a multilingual engineering terminology dictionary consisting of more than ten thousand engineering terms each for ten Asian languages and English. The dictionary is primarily designed to support foreign students who are studying engineering subjects at Japanese hi...

The ability of cognitive, affective, personality, and demographic variables to predict second-language acqui sition among college students was investigated. An all possible subsets regression analysis was used to compare the propor tion of variance in foreign-language achievement explained by each variable. The analysis revealed that variables from each of the 4 domains were important predictor...

The rise of bilingual education triggers an important question: which language is preferred for a particular school activity? Our field experiment (n = 120) shows that students (aged 13-15) who process feedback in non-native English have greater self-serving bias than students who process feedback in their native Dutch. By contrast, literature on the foreign-language emotionality effect suggest...