A special feature of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), particularly technical English are multi-noun lexical units (MNLUs) which are syntagms consisting of a string of nouns (noun + noun + noun ...+…..) appearing in great numbers especially in written specialized texts. Such texts serve as basic ESP teaching materials at institutions of higher education where English is taught as the first foreign language. The aim of this research paper is to establish students’ competences in reception/interpretation and production of MNLUs at the end of the first academic year and at the end of the second academic year, the latter being the final year of institutionalized ESP teaching. The research sought to find out the extent to which students master these competences without targeted teaching and to establish whether the achieved level is satisfactory. A language test was used as the research instrument, followed by an open-ended question seeking to get the insight into students’ opinions regarding the language test and MNLUs. The obtained data were analysed using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Antonia Susan Byatt, described by the reviewers as a “postmodern Victorian” (Levenson, 1993) or a “Victorian Iris Murdoch” (Butler, 1992) has proved that her writing skill has become something ...irreplaceable in the postmodern literary world. Her Possession has accomplished something that Hutcheon (1988: 20) in her A Poetics of Postmodernism called “the actual reception of postmodernism”, not sociologically limited to mostly academic readers. While in the Possession Byatt makes parodies of scholars giving a fair amount of critique of poststructuralist and postmodern attitudes through different narrative perspectives; paradox, ambiguity and self-reflexibility (Hansson, 1999), in Angels and Insects she makes a parody of the Victorians or through them, of our own time, fusing conventional and postmodern narrative strategies. Conventional, because she basically tells a story about Victorian naturalists and their fashionable activities at the time. All the rest is postmodernism; the metanarrative usage of entomology, the intertextuality which expands narrative possibilities, the self-reflexibility. The questions this paper deals with are several. Why are the intertexts of entomology metanarratives in the novella Morpho Eugenia so profuse to the point of interference? Is it because the insect allegory is an allegory in itself or simply the allegory is so rightfully used that it can go on and on? And finally, is the reader here a literary gourmet or a student listening to the lecture considering that the novella is a mixture of exquisite Victorian setting narratives and metanarrative entomology discourses? Article visualizations:
2. ZADARSKI LINGVISTIČKI FORUM »Metodologija istraživanja i pisanje znanstvenih radova u lingvistici« Zadar, 23. travnja 2015., Sveučilište u Zadru – Odjel za lingvistiku
Problemsko područje rada je informiranje i manipulacije informacijama. Fokus se stavlja na informacijske poremećaje i prepoznavanje lažnih vijesti jer to postaje sve veći problem, posebno u ...digitalnim medijima koji omogućuju njihovo viralno širenje. U radu su opisane vrste informacijskih poremećaja, s naglaskom na dezinformacije i
lažne vijesti koje se najčešće objavljuju s ciljem manipulacije javnošću. Osim njih, terminološki se determiniraju pojmovi misinformacija, malinformacija i infodemija. Analiziraju se načini širenja lažnih vijesti, od onih koje šire ljudi – najčešće putem društvenih mreža, pa do upotrebe „botova“. Da bi se što bolje prepoznali
informacijski poremećaji, te na pravilan način reagiralo na njih, iznose se smjernice i alati koji omogućuju provjeru istinitosti informacijskih sadržaja. Dostupna istraživanja ukazuju da je prisutnost lažnih vijesti u medijskom prostoru globalan problem, pogotovo u vrijeme
pandemije koronavirusa, ali nije zastupljen u svim zemljama istim intenzitetom. Hrvatska se navodi kao zemlja čiji stanovnici znaju izbjegavati lažne vijesti. Vlastitim istraživanjem dobio se uvid u učestalost i najčešće oblike informiranja kod studenata, te njihovu sposobnost prepoznavanja lažnih vijesti. Studenti preferiraju informiranje putem digitalnih medija (web, društvene mreže), dok je upotreba tradicionalnih medija značajno manja. Smatraju da su najpouzdaniji izvor informacija televizija i radio, a internet (izuzimajući društvene mreže) je na drugom mjestu. Iako smatraju da su uspješni u prepoznavanju lažnih vijesti, iskazali su značajno manju stvarnu sposobnost njihovog prepoznavanja.
The problem area of this paper is informing and information manipulation. The paper studies the issues on information disorder and identifying fake news, as it is becoming a growing problem, especially in digital media that allow their viral dissemination. The paper describes the types of information disorders, with an emphasis on disinformation and fake news that are most often published with the aim of manipulating the audience. In addition, the terms misinformation, malinformation and infodemic are terminologically determined. The work analyses the ways of fake news spreading, from those spread by people – most often through social networks, to the use of computer programs (bots). In order to properly identify and respond to information disorders, guidelines and tools providing credibility verification of information content (online fact-checkers) are presented. Available researches suggest that the presence of fake news throughout the media is a growing global problem, especially at the time of the coronavirus pandemic, but it is not equally present in the countries worldwide. Croatia is mentioned as a country where people are able to recognize fake news. This original research provides the insight into the frequency and the most common ways the students get information, as well
as their ability to identify fake news. Students prefer to be informed through digital media, while the use of traditional media is significantly less common. They consider television and radio to be the most reliable sources of informing, while the Internet (excluding social
networks) comes second. Although most students consider themselves successful at recognizing fake news, the research findings indicate that
their real ability to do so is significantly lower.
Skup je zavr{io radionicom Ide Raffaelli, na kojoj su mogli sudjelovati samo izlaga~i. Kees de Bot sa Sveu~ili{ta u Groningenu, Nizozemska, svoje je izlaganje The methodology of language attrition ...research / Metodologija istràivanja odumiranja jezika zapo~eo navo|enjem razloga za istràivanje odumiranja jezika. Prof. de Bot smatra da je na ovom podru~ju jo{ puno neistràenog, kao npr. povezanost odumiranja jezika i gestikulacije, povezanost odumiranja jezika i spolova, uloga starenja u odumiranju jezika (te{ko je razlu~iti patolo{ko i nepatolo{ko odumiranje jezika). Naglasila je da osnovne zna~ajke znanstvenog rada trebaju biti jednostavnost i jasno}a te da rad uvijek treba prilagoditi publici kojoj je namijenjen i dràti se strukture, bilo IMRAD (Introduction, Method, Results And Discussion), kojom se obi~no koristi kad ima puno statisti~kih podataka, ili ITMAC (Introduction, Theory, Methodology, Analysis, Conclusion), te je potom svaki dio strukture rada detaljno objasnila uz puno prakti~nih savjeta i uz preporuku da se prije slanja rada u odre|eni ~asopis dobro prou~i izdava~ka politika ~asopisa i rad prilagodi pravilima pisanja tog ~asopisa. Autorica je naglasila i probleme koji se pojavljuju pri u~enju budu}ih glagolskih vremena, za koje smatra da vjerojatno proizlaze iz ud`benika i gramatika hrvatskog jezika namijenjenih u~enicima osnovnih {kola, u kojima se budu}a glagolska vremena interpretiraju na na~in razli~it od onog u engleskim ud`benicima i gramatikama.
O institucionaliziranom učenju stranog jezika ne može se govoriti bez spominjanja afektivnih čimbenika, kao što je strah od stranog jezika koji je u negativnoj korelaciji s uspjehom u učenju. Pridoda ...li se k tome još i ispitni stres, razvidno je da studentima treba pomoći kako bi pri provjeri znanja, posebice sumativnoj provjeri znanja iz engleskog jezika struke, stres reducirali.
Cilj je ovoga rada istražiti razinu ispitnog stresa kod studenata pri sumativnoj provjeri znanja na dvama kolokvijima iz engleskog jezika struke, od kojih se jedan polaže na klasičan način (papir + olovka), dok se na drugome, kod iste skupine studenata primjenjuje e-provjera znanja. Razina ispitnog stresa ustanovljava se putem dvaju upitnika. Statistička obrada podataka potvrđuje dvije hipoteze, odnosno dokazuje je da je ispitni stres manji pri e-provjeri znanja nego pri klasičnoj provjeri znanja, te da su rezultati ispita, odnosno uspjeh studenata, također bolji, dok je razina koncentracije ista
pri obje metode provjere znanja.
eAssessment in English for specific purposes Polic, Tamara; Tomljanovic, Jasminka; Anic, Nikola
2014 International Conference on Education Technologies and Computers (ICETC),
2014-Sept.
Conference Proceeding
The aim of this work, which is a case study, is to present the way eAssessment could be applied in assessing the student knowledge of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) at institutions of higher ...education (HEI) using Drupal, a free software package that allows anyone to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website, allowing tight control over who can create, view, manage, publish and otherwise interact with the content on the website. The work is based on the example of the Polytechnic of Rijeka, Croatia, Transport Department (Road and Rail Transport and Postal Services), second year part-time students, course The English Language 3, a questionnaire the students have filled out regarding the students' opinion on online knowledge summative assessment, and the statistical analyses on various aspects of their accomplishment both in partial and final written exams. It results that both from the students' and teacher's point of view the online assessment is satisfactory, welcome and recommendable not just in ESP but in other courses as well.
Obesity is associated with the accumulation of pro‐inflammatory cells in visceral adipose tissue (VAT), which is an important underlying cause of insulin resistance and progression to diabetes ...mellitus type 2 (DM2). Although the role of pro‐inflammatory cytokines in disease development is established, the initiating events leading to immune cell activation remain elusive. Lean adipose tissue is predominantly populated with regulatory cells, such as eosinophils and type 2 innate lymphocytes. These cells maintain tissue homeostasis through the excretion of type 2 cytokines, such as IL‐4, IL‐5, and IL‐13, which keep adipose tissue macrophages (ATMs) in an anti‐inflammatory, M2‐like state. Diet‐induced obesity is associated with the loss of tissue homeostasis and development of type 1 inflammatory responses in VAT, characterized by IFN‐γ. A key event is a shift of ATMs toward an M1 phenotype. Recent studies show that obesity‐induced adipocyte hypertrophy results in upregulated surface expression of stress markers. Adipose stress is detected by local sentinels, such as NK cells and CD8+ T cells, which produce IFN‐γ, driving M1 ATM polarization. A rapid accumulation of pro‐inflammatory cells in VAT follows, leading to inflammation. In this review, we provide an overview of events leading to adipose tissue inflammation, with a special focus on adipose homeostasis and the obesity‐induced loss of homeostasis which marks the initiation of VAT inflammation.
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