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Training, Language and Culture
Volume 10 Issue 1

The contributions in this issue range over translation, contrastive linguistics, academic writing, language pedagogy, and the use of artificial intelligence in education. Despite this range, the articles maintain sustained attention to how linguistic phenomena appear in situated practice, whether in multilingual communication, classroom interaction, or technologically mediated environments. The contributions maintain a consistent focus on language as it is used, taught, and analysed in concrete settings. They also reflect current developments in the field, including the growing presence of digital environments and data-based research in language study and education. The issue offers material that supports further analytical work on language in diverse communicative settings.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 9 Issue 4

This issue presents work that stays close to language as it is actually used: in meetings, in classrooms, in research writing, in interviews, and in the informal spaces where learners speak to one another. The studies differ in topic, yet they share a steady interest in how people choose their words when they need to act, explain, justify, or position themselves. Several contributions draw attention to the small devices that steady an utterance or give it a particular colouring; others show how long-established linguistic thinking can sit alongside newer digital tools without losing its footing. Readers who work with spoken or written data – whether as analysts, teachers, or supervisors of student writing – will recognise questions that arise in their own practice. The volume may also appeal to those who prefer studies built on close engagement with real material rather than heavily theorised accounts.

Global Perspectives on Language Education: Technology, Motivation, and Multilingualism

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 9 Issue 3

Guest Editor Dr Roza A. Valeeva

We are pleased to introduce this special issue prepared in collaboration with our guest editor, Dr. Roza A. Valeeva, Professor of Pedagogy at Kazan Federal University and a leading scholar in humanistic education. We thank Dr. Valeeva for her expertise and dedication in compiling this issue. The contributions gathered here reflect the changes currently redefining language education across the world. As classrooms expand outside of their physical boundaries through digital technologies, as learners grapple with their own motivation in ever more complex settings, and as multilingual realities influence policy and practice, researchers are offering fresh evidence and new perspectives. This issue assembles studies that are united by their concern with how language education adapts to these pressures, while each article foregrounds a different aspect of the global conversation.

Pragmatics in Focus: Language Across Contexts

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 9 Issue 2

Guest Editor Dr Olga V. Aleksandrova

This special issue was prepared in collaboration with Dr. Prof. Olga V. Aleksandrova, a distinguished Russian linguist and Anglicist. Her expertise in English grammar, cognitive linguistics, comparative linguistics, and pragmatics greatly enriched the editorial process. We were honoured to work alongside Dr. Aleksandrova and deeply value her insightful guidance throughout the preparation of this issue. This collection brings together eight original contributions that explore the ways language operates in specific cultural and regional contexts. From address forms and kinship systems to hashtags and vehicle naming, the studies reflect a shared commitment to understanding how language – spoken, written, or mediated – expresses local values and group identities. The issue is united by its focus on the everyday pragmatics of language use and the cultural logics that underlie them.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 9 Issue 1

This issue brings together a diverse collection of studies that investigate various aspects of language use, communication, and education in different contexts. The articles featured in this edition touch upon translation strategies, pragmatic and sociolinguistic patterns, language preferences in education, teacher anxiety, and the evolution of specialised terminology. Through empirical research and theoretical insights, these studies contribute to the ongoing discourse in applied linguistics, professional communication, and language education.

Educators and Learners: Emerging Roles in Modern Educational Contexts

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 8 Issue 4

Guest Editor Dr Petar Spalević

This special issue of Training, Language and Culture was prepared with a much appreciated collaboration with Dr Petar Spalević. The special issue, Educators and Learners: Emerging Roles in Modern Educational Contexts, focuses on innovative approaches, tools, and methodologies that shape the roles of both educators and learners. The issue brings together a diverse array of studies that address pressing challenges and emerging opportunities in contemporary educational contexts, including language learning, technology integration, cultural considerations, and pedagogical innovation.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 8 Issue 3

The issue features a diverse collection of articles that explore contemporary challenges and methodologies in language education, translation, and cultural studies. The contributions presented in the issue reflect the ongoing evolution of linguistic and educational research, discussing new perspectives and practical implications across various contexts. The studies focus on the evolving approaches in teaching and communication, exposing the role of technology and discourse strategies in enhancing these fields. Accuracy and consistency, particularly in specialised fields like translation and academic assessment, are addressed as crucial elements for improvement. The articles reflect ongoing developments in educational and linguistic practices, focusing on enhancing pedagogical methods and communication strategies.

Linguistic and Cultural Research: A Multilingual Perspective

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 8 Issue 2

Guest Editor Dr Vladimir I. Karasik

The special issue was prepared thanks to the invaluable collaboration of Guest Editor Dr. Vladimir I. Karasik, whose significant contributions enriched the production process and translated into some outstanding outcomes. This collection of articles presents a series of scholarly inquiries that examine the interconnectedness of language and culture across various sociolinguistic contexts. The thematic content of this issue spans several areas, including sentiment analysis, cultural identity, translation studies, and discourse analysis, reflecting the multifaceted nature of linguistic and cultural research.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 8 Issue 1

This issue incorporates a collection of eight original research articles and one book review that together span a wide range of topics in the fields of language learning, pedagogical innovation, linguistic analysis, and the intersection of language with technology. Each contribution encourages the integration of the findings across disciplines, appealing to a broad audience including educators, linguists, curriculum designers, and policymakers. The articles in this issue collectively expose the importance of interdisciplinary research in addressing complex questions about language acquisition, teaching methodologies, cultural influences on communication, and the role of language studies.

Emergent Trends in Language Education: Bridging Tradition and Technology

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 7 Issue 4

Guest Editor Dr Lazar Stošić

This special issue was prepared through a much appreciated collaboration with Dr Lazar Stošić - Doctor of Computer Science, Professor and the President of the Association for the Development of Science, Engineering and Education in Serbia. Dr Stošić is an expert in scholarly publishing with expertise in editorial workflow management, web technologies, web design, indexing, XML production, SEO, digital marketing, and new media technologies. Dr Stošić is Editor-in-Chief of WoS and Scopus indexed International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education (IJCRSEE) and the official Crossref Ambassador for Europe. Prepared in collaboration with Dr Stošić, this issue is a curated collection of articles that serves as a testament to the dynamic intersection where traditional teaching methodologies converge with the transformative impact of technological innovations in the realm of language education.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 7 Issue 3

This issue explores a diverse range of topics at the intersection of language, culture, communication, and education to contribute to the ongoing dialogue in the respective areas of inquiry. The research incorporated in this issue contributes a unique perspective to the field of linguistics, communication, and language instruction and will hopefully inspire further exploration and discussion, ultimately benefiting educators, researchers, and language learners alike.

Professional Communication: Inquiries into Language Across Borders

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 7 Issue 2

Guest Editors Dr Salvador Pons Bordería and Dr Shima Salameh Jiménez

This special issue is prepared with a much-appreciated assitance of our Guest Editors Dr Salvador Pons Bordería and Dr Shima Salameh Jiménez. The issue examines how language in professional communication is produced through different qualitative and quantitative analyses – semantic, pragmatic, cognitive – and by using novel techniques for data obtention. Results are applied to different languages, such as Russian, English, or Chinese, and show a wide cultural representativity.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 7 Issue 1

The first issue of 2023 offers outstanding studies investigating a broad scope of problems within the realm of checklist-based scoring, programme learning outcomes, the learning of minority languages, supervisors’ theses feedback, identity construction, the challenges of aviation communication, digital politeness in the post-Covid era, and the comparative analysis of the speech act of refusal. The reviews include Teaching English for Tourism: Bridging research and praxis (published by Routledge), and Reconceptualizing English for International Business Contexts: A BELF approach and its educational implications (published by Multilingual Matters).

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 6 Issue 4

This year’s final issue has gathered some noteworthy research with the studies offering insights into the issues of field-specific terminology, language policy and planning, hospitality education, promotional discourse, language aggression, and in-service teacher training.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 6 Issue 3

This issue offers multifaceted studies looking into learners’ collocational competence, the teaching of ESP and EFL university courses online, the ways to enhance university reputation, the language of research articles, the problems occurring in translating medical abbreviations and acronyms, and storytelling as an instrument of promoting intercultural communicative competence.

Finding Culture in Language

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 6 Issue 2

Guest Editor Prof David Crystal

This special issue prepared in a much-anticipated collaboration with the brilliant Prof David Crystal illustrates the complexity as well as the fascination of studying language in relation to culture, and aspires to answer a seemingly simple, yet infinitely challenging question: where is culture to be found?

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 6 Issue 1

The first issue of 2022 has gathered some comprehensive and illuminating research covering several valid scientific problems, including language research in the academic journals, foreign language speaking anxiety, intercultural awareness and learning, prosodic culturally marked peculiarities of language teachers’ speech behaviour, emotions in written communication, and geographically rmarked Hispanic toponymy.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 5 Issue 4

This final issue of 2021 discusses some captivating questions in the domain of neurolinguistics, computer-mediated communication, discourse analysis of social media, language policy and planning, cultural contexts, intertextuality, and the strategies and tactics of speech behaviour.

Current Challenges in Language Teaching and Learning: Perspectives, Practices and Provisions

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 5 Issue 3

Guest Editor Dr Ekaterina Protassova

This special issue prepared in collaboration with Guest Editor Dr Ekaterina Protassova of the University of Helsinki focuses on diverse conditions of language teaching and learning that reflect the leading edge of educational thought in order to promote multilingualism and introduce languages other than English.

More than Meets the Eye:
A Closer Look at Professional Discourse

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 5 Issue 2

Guest Editor Dr Michael McCarthy

TLC is proud to present a special issue on the language of professional discourse prepared in collaboration with Guest Editor Dr Michael McCarthy, Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and author of more than 50 books and 100 academic papers dealing with English language research. All the articles in this issue go beyond the lexico-grammatical scaffolding of their chosen texts and, using different methods and approaches, all explore the symbolic substrata of texts within professional discourses in the domains of politics, marketing, tourism, and socio-cultural media.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 5 Issue 1

The first issue of 2021 offers academic research helping us to better understand attitudes to organisational culture around the world, the relationship between intercultural communication and national identity, the role of authentic materials in language teaching and learning, the relationship between human translation skills and neural translation machines, the development of pre-service teachers’ digital communication skills and the development of remote teacher training programmes.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 4 Issue 4

The final issue of 2020 broaches some challenging questions in the realm of EFL assessment, applied linguistics, active learning, education for sustainable development, teaching second language to migrant and ethnic minorities, and the lexical composition of contemporary political discourse.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 4 Issue 3

This issue offers insightful research on Arabic, Chinese, Greek, German and English languages and cultures drawing on a diverse range of methodological frameworks and an impressive repertoire of scientific approaches. Another exciting issue featuring new scholarship from Russia, Western Europe and the Middle East, complemented by recent book reviews and, as is customary, our quarterly news report.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 4 Issue 2

This issue explores the issues of communication in multicultural classrooms and how to manage them, the ways of overcoming xenoglossophobia, and the challenge of considering local environment as part of the language teaching process. Also, Italy features strongly in this issue with two articles on the terminology used in the Italian tourist and furniture and interior design industries, and the importance of loanwords in organisational naming to ensure more effective international marketing.

Profession-Oriented Research: Educational and Methodological Perspectives

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 4 Issue 1

Guest Editor Dr Robert O'Dowd

The first issue of 2020 is a special one, not only because it bears its own name - Profession-Oriented Research: Educational and Methodological Perspectives - but also because it was prepared by a very special Guest Editor - Dr Robert O'Dowd whose contribution in putting the issue together cannot be underestimated. Dr O'Dowd's concise yet overwhelmingly to-the-point Introduction will place things in context for our readers. On the part of the TLC team, we extend our sincere gratitude to Dr O'Dowd and would like to thank him for his time and effort in making this a truly special issue.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 3 Issue 4

This issue will examine an array of problematic areas of study concerned with intercultural competence, virtual exchange, the task-based approach to L2 teaching, language for work, politeness strategies, translation of field-specific terminology from French into Russian, and the language of social media and status messages.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 3 Issue 3

This issue will leave no stone unturned in its search for some inspiring methodological, linguistic and cultural perspectives that will, hopefully, make a valid contribution to the corresponding fields of research.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 3 Issue 2

The issue will look closely into the intricate nature, pitfalls and difficulties of second language acquisition, as well as address a number of purely linguistic problems within the realm of pragmatics, grammar and discourse studies.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 3 Issue 1

The first issue of 2019 will shed light on a number of engaging topics that will hit home with both language researchers and teachers. The underlying theme in our language section has to do primarily with style and everything it takes to make various institutional discourses productive, targeted and explicit.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 2 Issue 4

This final issue of the passing year has drawn together a set of diverse research with studies ranging from teaching languages in emerging economies to the use of interjections by British royal family members. The former subject has obviously become one of the central concerns in both practical and scholarly terms as developing countries worldwide are struggling to overcome educational obstacles and provide for language learning.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 2 Issue 3

In this issue, the crux of the matter has to do mostly with one of the key political, economic and sociocultural issues of today – the so-called refugee crisis and the corresponding issues faced by numerous communities across the globe. As multiculturalism continues to advocate equal respect to the various cultures in a society and promote the maintenance of cultural diversity, the matters of language learning and teaching come to the forefront highlighting the need for initiatives to support children and adult education in the context of the ever-shifting geopolitical developments.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 2 Issue 2

In such an uncertain world of political tension and complex social relations, how are linguists and cultural specialists to interpret it using language? Do we state the truth as we see it, modify it, avoid it or falsify it? In search for the answer, we have chosen George Carlin as our cover quotation this month, for a lot of language is about manipulating opinion and maybe avoiding the truth. Many of the articles this issue address this area of different uses of language.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 2 Issue 1

The issue covers a set of issues dealing with integration examination in Russia, teaching translation, poetry and diplomacy, free indirect speech in author’s translation, and foreign language education in Greece.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 1 Issue 4

The issue presents a varied review of the academic field of language, culture and literature. The key theme this issue is alternative approaches to education with articles on internationalising the classroom through Virtual Exchange, on how a different font type and colour can help or hinder reading fluency, and a challenging article on how ICT can be used to motivate Generation Z students to learn more effectively.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 1 Issue 3

The issue considers an array of problems concerning metacommunication, the development of Business English skills, teaching negotiation, English-Chinese comparative morphology, and foreign language teaching in the German Gymnasium.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 1 Issue 2

This issue presents a notable range of research including analysis of language corpora and their value and limitations in describing changes in language usage; analysis of the characteristics of semantic fields based on an international experiment recognising names of common birds; why it is that in the early stages little girls may be better at language learning than little boys; why the teaching of cultural differences, particularly as expressed through non-verbal communication, is essential to the successful teaching of international business communication; and how the French business press is making increasing use of British and American expressions despite the sometime resistance of the French language establishment.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 1 Issue 1

The inaugural issue features an article by Professor David Crystal on the need for an online cultural dictionary and other notable research that will hopefully interest a vast array of researchers and practitioners.