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 Prof 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

We have taken the opportunity to publish papers on how language institutions developed both as part of the history of language learning and teaching and as a possible model for other countries wishing to develop their own institutions. In Issue 1(2), we explored changes in teaching methodology in China and in Issue 1(3) – how the German Gymnasium had contributed to excellence in language learning. In this issue, we explain how the development of tutorial schools met the needs of a post-second-world-war emerging Greek middle class wishing to take advantage of international trade, and more.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 1 Issue 4

We present another varied review of the academic field of language, culture and literature. The key theme this issue is alternative approaches to education with articles by Robert O’Dowd on internationalising the classroom through Virtual Exchange, Heiner Böttger et al. on how a different font type and colour can help or hinder reading fluency, and a challenging article by Svetlana Popova on how ICT can be used to motivate Generation Z students to learn more effectively.

Training, Language and Culture
Volume 1 Issue 3

Silence is an important part of communication and how to use it as part of metacommunication is the subject covered by Hayet Bahri and Robert Williams in their paper. It is an important and very relevant overview of and contribution to the applied linguistic and cultural understanding of communication. The issue also features reviews of Michael Carrier’s Digital Language Learning and Teaching: Research, Theory and Practice, Mark Thompson’s Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Lanuguage of Politics?, and Patricia Friedrich’s English for Diplomatic Purposes.

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

In this issue, we are honoured to feature an article by Professor Crystal on the need for an online cultural dictionary. His investigation of culture and its importance in a global economy is something to be strongly welcomed. The second article is by world Scopus recognised author Elena Malyuga of RUDN University on the role of professional jargon in international business and how to improve understanding in international business meetings and negotiations, an important aspect of successful communication.