Challenging Ideas and Innovative Approaches in Applied Linguistics

CONTENTS

List of Contributors

Foreword

Part I
Language Learning and Teaching

Izabela Batyra
The Use of Language Learning Strategies in Teaching Speaking Skills

Oksana Borysenko and Solomiya Vysotska
Challenges of Ukrainian ESP

Katherine Kerschen
Beliefs of Pre-Service EFL Teachers about English as a Lingua Franca in Language Teaching: The Implications for Teaching Pragmatics

Olesia Liubashenko and Olga Yashenkova
Getting Students to Think Laterally as an Evaluation Strategy at the Classical University

Richard Madsen
Students Self-Assessment and Self-Awareness in Language Learning

Katarzyna Mroczyńska
Etymological Elaboration as a Strategy for Teaching Idioms in L2 and the Role It May Play in Teaching English Animal Idioms to Polish Students

Part II
Sociolinguistics

Anita Buczek-Zawiła
The Notion of Pronunciation Standard for the Younger Generation of Poles

Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik
Mediaeval Multilingualism at Noon - a Preliminary Report on Insufficiency

Ida Stria
Esperanto Speakers - an Unclassifiable Community?

Part III
Discourse Analysis

Robert Butler
Force-Dynamic Interaction in Epistemic and Effective Stances: The Liberal Democrats in Multimodal Perspective

Joanna Jabłońska-Hood
English Humour Intended to Be Funny? On the Recognition of Comic Intentions and Relevance Theory in Humour Creation

Sylwia Szewc-Koryszko
What s New about a News Story? Divergences between the Popular and Serious Press in Polish

Part IV
Translation Studies

Jolanta Osękowska-Sandecka
Translation for Intertextualisation in the Press: Conflict Ideology Alterations

Lucia Salvato
The Potential of Intersemiotic Translations and Their Use in Academic Foreign Language Teaching

Index