Year LIII, Issue 2, 2026<<Archive>>

Appliеd Linguistics

Lаnguаgе Tеаching Меthodology

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PARENTING STYLES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN EARLY SCHOOL AGE

The study examines the impact of parenting styles on the social and linguistic adaptation of children in early school age. Theoretical frameworks and empirical data indicate that supportive and dialogic models of family interaction create conditions for self-...

parenting styles; social adaptation; language development; authoritarian upbringing; supportive strategies; early school age

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WHO IS THE AUTHOR? SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS' PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING ASSIGNMENTS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES IN THE AGE OF AI

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought many educational challenges to the field of foreign language teaching. This article presents and discusses the results of a survey conducted among 50 foreign language education teachers in secondary...

artificial intelligence (AI); foreign language education; writing skills; foreign language learning; educational challenges

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DIGITAL AND MEDIA LITERACY IN TEACHER EDUCATION: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF TRAINING OUTCOMES

The rapid expansion of digital information ecosystems and the proliferation of disinformation have significantly transformed contemporary educational environments, requiring teachers to integrate digital technologies while fostering students’ critical thinkin...

digital media literacy; disinformation; teachers’ professional development; in-service teacher training; digital competences in education

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FOSTERING LANGUAGE AND LITERACY THROUGH STREAM EDUCATION: INTEGRATING READING INTO INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING

Language education with the combination of STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) can be extremely effective due to its interdisciplinary nature which allows students to connect and communicate using different literacy a...

STREAM education; literacy integration; interdisciplinary learning; language skills

Lаnguаgе аnd Culturе

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DECADENTS AND POE DECADENTS IN CHEKHOV’S THE SEAGULL METAANALYTICAL NOTES

The text reveals a highly veiled yet essential implicit motif in Chekhov’s canonical play The Seagull: its connection with Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem The Raven. More specifically, it traces how the theme of decadence permeates the entire dialogue and, in...

linguodidactology; Chekhov; Edgar Allan Poe; The Raven; The Seagull; decadence

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SEMANTIC UNITS PROSODIC ACCENTUATION OF TRAGIC CONCEPT OF WAR (ON THE MATERIAL OF W. SHAKESPEAR’S PLAYS)

This study investigates the conceptual-semantic structure of the concept WAR in the context of William Shakespeare’s historical chronicle Richard III, with a focus on its cognitive links to the concepts KILL and DEATH. Using a combination of corpus-based lin...

WAR; KILL; DEATH; conceptual-semantic model; prosody; Shakespear; cognitive linguistics; speech analysis

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LITERATURE AS A VEHICLE FORDEVELOPING AND ASSESSING MULTIMODALCOMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AND MEDIATION SKILLS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

The Companion Volume to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (2020) has not only enriched our understanding of the essence of communicative competence, but also underlined the key role of developing mediation skills when teaching and lear...

linguodidactology; multimodal communicative competence; mediation skills; action-oriented approach to language learning; teaching language through literature

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ON THE DILEMMA OF THE FOOTNOTE IN THE LITERARY TEXT AND ITS TRANSLATION

The text examines the footnote as a paratextual element in literary works, with particular attention to its use in the translation of fiction and the functions and necessity of its application. It analyzes the situations in which translators resort to additi...

translation strategies; Time Shelter; Slavic languages; footnote; empruntology; cultural context; translation; literary text; realia; fiction; cultural context

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