Šiuolaikinės visuomenės ugdymo veiksniai

Foreign language competences for the military personnel of Lithuania and NATO are essential in sustaining National Security of the alliance especially by effectively performing their military duties that include not only specific military art but also administrative and managemental. The Military Academy of Lithuania is a unique higher educational institution that prepares specialists in administration, management, and other fields. Therefore, being a cadet of the Academy, he/she acquires all the necessary competences to obtain proficiency in these fields. However, the cadets of the Academy considerably need foreign language competences so that they could actively, successfully, and professionally conduct their duties not only locally but also participating internationally in various military organizations and missions. Thus, in many cases military’s success in multinational operations very often depends on soldiers’ ability to communicate and express themselves in English or any other foreign language. In this “global village” it is practically inconceivable to make career without the knowledge of the English or any other foreign language. Thus, the aim of the research is to analyze the role of foreign language competencies acquired at the Lithuanian Military Academy where cadets obtain qualifications and foreign language competences needed for successful career making, National and International security. Therefore, the objective of the research is how theoretically and practically resolve the issue of developing new linguistic competences in foreign languages necessary for MAL cadets through analyses of the results of the questionnaire.

В статье рассматривается проблема написания специализированного пособия для конкретной целевой группы, такой как военные. Цель статьи - определение концептуальной платформы в создании современного учебного пособия нового поколения по русскому языку для военнослужащих, определение специфики его содержания. В задачи исследования также входит определение объёма и принципов отбора учебного материала, в частности лингвокультурологического, обеспечивающего адекватное общение на русском языке. Исследование основано на описательно-аналитическом методе.

The aim of this study is to present a detailed interpretation of the speech acts of posts and responses in the discourse analysis on Facebook. The research was handled on 20 posts of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and 20 responses of public people for each post. The conversations were between politicians and public people. The chosen methods were quantitative and qualitative analysis. The results indicate that the politicians’ posts were direct rather than indirect in relation to the speech act. Then, the responses by the hearers were also more direct than indirect. Also, the results indicate that the usages of the locution, illocution and perlocution speech acts were followed by the politicians and the hearers successfully. The study suggests further research could be carried out in the field of politeness strategies in posts and responses.

There are three ways to view the relationship between traditional (“mechanistic”) and innovative (“holistic”) second language teaching and learning: as nearing towards a paradigm shift, as an existing dialectic tension between two competing paradigms, or as a state of “paradigm paralysis”. Paradigm is an overall concept accepted by a community of researchers or specialists as the main guiding principle in their endeavour. The mechanistic paradigm of second language learning regards the language acquisition process as that of conscious artificial construction of language knowledge in a learner’s mind. The persistent and widespread failure of traditional second language instruction to produce fluent speakers might be attributed not only to the faults on the part of learners or teachers but also to the underlying paradigm of teaching. Is second language teaching moving towards the paradigm shift in the Kuhnian sense or are the two paradigms co-existing side by side generating fruitful discussion? Is “paradigm paralysis”, i.e. entrenchment of both sides in rigid and inflexible opposition, also a reality in the field of language teaching? Our evolving understanding of language and learning urges us to compare mechanistic and holistic approaches, develop new perspectives and make informed decisions.

Gimtoji kalba – neatskiriama kiekvieno žmogaus gyvenimo dalis. Ji yra svarbiausia žmonių bendravimo priemonė, be kurios negali būti visuomenės pažangos. Buvo laikai, kai žmonės nemokėjo rašyti, tačiau nėra buvę laikų, kad visuomenė būtų išsivertusi be kalbos. Kalba yra neįkainojamas žmonių turtas, kurio negalima nepaisyti. Straipnyje aprašomi iššūkiai lietuvių kalbai globalizacijos sąlygomis, lietuvių kalbos prestižo samprata ir jo kėlimo priemonės šiuolaikiniame kontekste. Remiantis empirinio tyrimo duomenimis lyginamas X kolegijos dėstytojų ir studentų požiūris į lietuvių kalbos prestižą.

Cet article analyse l’enseignement et apprentissage du français langue étrangère dans l’Académie militaire de Lituanie en se focalisant sur la ressemblance et dissemblance de la terminologie professionnelle militaire en français, russe et lituanien. En se basant sur le corpus tiré de différents dictionnaires spécialisés, l’article présente la variété des usages des homonymes français dont l’emploi en lituanien et russe se différencie et s’associe en se focalisant sur l’étymologie et les valeurs sémantiques qu’ils acquièrent dans le discours militaire français-lituanien-russe moderne. Les résultats de cette recherche ont démontré que l’emploi des homonymes militaires coincent plus souvent en lituanien et en russe qu’en français et en lituanien. Cette étude a également présenté une grande complexité de l’homonymie dans le discours militaire actuel et son importante dans l’enseignement de français à l’académie.

Šiame tiriamajame darbe bandoma iš ispanų kalboje asmens kilmei nurodyti vartojamų žodžių darybos formantų atrinkti ir pateikti tuos, kurie būtų priimtiniausi sudarant žodžius su lietuviškais miestų ir vietovių pavadinimais. Globalėjančiame pasaulyje vykstant vis glaudesniems tarpkultūriniams kontaktams, kalbos vartotojai susiduria su klausimu, kaip pavadinti vieno ar kito miesto gyventojus. Šis klausimas su kiekviena diena tampa vis aktualesnis: jį vis dažniau kelia vertėjai, žurnalistai, rašytojai – visi, kam svarbu perteikti savo patirtis, susijusias su mūsų kraštu, kultūra, teritorija, istorija.