{"title":"Cultural Awareness among First-Year Undergraduate Students of English and Translation","authors":"Simon Zupan, M. Gadpaille","doi":"10.4312/ELOPE.17.2.239-254","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of a culture quiz that was administered among undergraduate students of English and Translation at the University of Maribor in 2019. Comprising twenty items from five domains of culture that the respondents had to identify, the results of the quiz showed that that the students were most familiar with items from the domains of technology and its closely related vocabulary, followed by sports, politics and high culture (drama, literature, ballet). The study also suggested some differences based on respondents’ gender and their high school grade performance in English. The results partly overlap with the results of a similar study from 2007, corroborating that popular culture remains the most recognizable cultural domain among the surveyed students.","PeriodicalId":37589,"journal":{"name":"ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4312/ELOPE.17.2.239-254","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The article presents the results of a culture quiz that was administered among undergraduate students of English and Translation at the University of Maribor in 2019. Comprising twenty items from five domains of culture that the respondents had to identify, the results of the quiz showed that that the students were most familiar with items from the domains of technology and its closely related vocabulary, followed by sports, politics and high culture (drama, literature, ballet). The study also suggested some differences based on respondents’ gender and their high school grade performance in English. The results partly overlap with the results of a similar study from 2007, corroborating that popular culture remains the most recognizable cultural domain among the surveyed students.
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ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries (http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research articles, studies and essays that address issues of English language, literature, teaching and translation. The guest editors, Jason Blake and Michelle Gadpaille, warmly invite contributors to submit original research for a special issue of the journal in honour of Margaret Atwood’s 80th birthday. Papers are solicited that focus on Atwood’s 21st-century work (excluding film and television adaptations). Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: Experiments in short prose and cross-generic forms Eco-critical engagement in prose or fiction; Apocalyptic Atwood Reception across cultures, languages and generations; global Atwood Translation and stylistic studies of 21st century works Poetic legacy Interdisciplinary approaches Humour.
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