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.