Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.36534/erlj.2023.01.05
Aneta Naumoska, Ivona Smilevska
The primary goal of this paper is to present, examine and exemplify the versatility and inclusiveness of the term ‘mental health’, i.e. the role of mental health as an integral component and affective factor in learning English as a foreign language. The most common mental health disorders and their early signs and symptoms are listed and described. Furthermore, the importance of teacher awareness of student mental health in the EFL classroom is elaborated as well as what and how much teachers should know about mental health and bullying so as to recognize and address them if need arises. It can even be said that the COVID-19 pandemic and school closures exacerbated this issue, and a suggestion to move forward could be building student resilience. Not only do teachers but also parents and guardians play a crucial role in their children's education, so how they can help protect their children's mental health has been additionally discussed. This paper will enrich the existing pool of theory on student mental health with the results and discussion from research conducted via interviews among 50 EFL teachers from various high schools in Skopje (North Macedonia), concerning their views on teacher awareness in respect to student mental health in the EFL classroom. The interview responses show an optimistic trend of increase of teacher interest in student mental health and empathy for students, albeit lack of institutional support. It is hoped that this paper will open avenues of thought for EFL teachers to probe even more into mental health in the EFL classroom. It is also important to acknowledge that while the overarching objective is to foster and promote mental health awareness among all educators across the board, this paper distinctly accentuates the significance within the domain of teaching EFL. This emphasis stems from the authors’ perspective: one being an aspiring EFL teacher, and the other currently holding the position of an Assistant Professor (tertiary education). The aspiration is to highlight EFL teachers as influential figures capable of catalyzing transformative change for the future. / Keywords: mental health, bullying, resilience, students, awareness, EFL classroom
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.36534/erlj.2023.01.06
Izabela Celevska, Biljana Naumoska-Sarakinska
As the most effective means of communication, language is open to numerous changes to adapt to its users. English both influences other languages, and is influenced by them, most often the former than the latter, especially in the area of enriching their word stock. As things change in society, and in life, the users’ needs change, too; new phenomena appear, resulting in new words entering a given language. This integration is interesting to study in more detail as it may provide an insight into the reasons and the consequences to the target language at hand. This paper looks at a small-scale study carried out among adolescents in N. Macedonia, with the aim to see how much anglicisms feature in their everyday speech, and why. Though the frequent use of anglicisms is nothing bad, awareness should be raised as it might result in the source language becoming less familiar to its native speakers, and eventually fading away. / Keywords: anglicisms, adolescents, loanwords, language planning, language use, affect
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.36534/erlj.2023.01.07
Helena Liwo
The significance of language and speech in human functioning is enormous. The human society developed speech as a means of communication and, consequently, the relationships based on language. Language also determines a person’s social situation, providing an opportunity to take on specific and professional roles. In this case, it serves as a foundation or necessary tool to enter the social network and occupy a specific position within it. On the other hand, language is an attribute of individual human activity. It plays a crucial role in the creation of human subjectivity. Constructing a subject means giving meaning and internalizing linguistic concepts, as well as discovering one’s own personal relationship to these concepts. The subject’s experiences in these relationships become a path to self-identication and, consequently, to the acquisition of one’s identity (Liwo 2012, 195).
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.36534/erlj.2023.01.02
A. Kurowski, Eva Mikuska
Through empirical evidence we have found that female students reflect their emotions through the language they use. This paper examines responses of 24 adult female students in higher education on Early Childhood Studies (ECS) programmes. It draws on qualitative interview data from a recent research project and interactions in meetings. The aim of the research was to determine the views of students on perceived benefits of higher education to their early childhood, education, and care (ECEC) practice in a sector that is notoriously low paid and carries low status. The research was undertaken in a further education (FE) college on the Isle of Wight in England to establish the impact of HE in childhood studies. What started as research into early years policy morphed into a very unexpected and emotional response. The language used also revealed the insecurities and lack of confidence of this student group as they embarked on, and during their time as students in HE. Our experience as professionals working in higher education, is that adult female students can express their levels ambition (or lack of) through their language, especially where they feel they do not really belong in higher education, and where their prospects of success are tempered by their view of themselves and their perceived ability. / Key words: Isle of Wight, higher education, language, cultural capital, self-esteem, achievement.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-03DOI: 10.36534/erlj.2023.03.00
Michał Daszkiewicz
{"title":"Exploring the – underrated – educational role of language in interdisciplinary avenues","authors":"Michał Daszkiewicz","doi":"10.36534/erlj.2023.03.00","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36534/erlj.2023.03.00","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270557,"journal":{"name":"Educational Role of Language Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116808821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.36534/erlj.2022.02.03
Sigríður Ólafsdóttir, Paula Budzyńska
{"title":"Productive language development in classroom activities in Poland and Iceland: The diversity of language context in the digital world","authors":"Sigríður Ólafsdóttir, Paula Budzyńska","doi":"10.36534/erlj.2022.02.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36534/erlj.2022.02.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270557,"journal":{"name":"Educational Role of Language Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115176884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.36534/erlj.2022.02.06
Francis Salawu Ozaomata
{"title":"Challenges of diversity in languages: the dilemma of using English as a medium of learning in Nigeria","authors":"Francis Salawu Ozaomata","doi":"10.36534/erlj.2022.02.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36534/erlj.2022.02.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270557,"journal":{"name":"Educational Role of Language Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121163970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.36534/erlj.2022.02.11
Pantea Rinnemaa
{"title":"Linguistically diverse students’ perceptions of difficulties with reading and understanding texts in civics","authors":"Pantea Rinnemaa","doi":"10.36534/erlj.2022.02.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36534/erlj.2022.02.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270557,"journal":{"name":"Educational Role of Language Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127832139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.36534/erlj.2022.02.01
J. Ball, Mariam Smith
{"title":"A more-than-language approach to inclusion and success of indigenous children in education: reflections on Cambodia’s multilingual education plan","authors":"J. Ball, Mariam Smith","doi":"10.36534/erlj.2022.02.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36534/erlj.2022.02.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270557,"journal":{"name":"Educational Role of Language Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131798492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.36534/erlj.2022.02.08
Nejla Kalajdžisalihović, Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić, A. Sadiković
{"title":"Digital literacy, digital pedagogy and digital content creation – reflective practice","authors":"Nejla Kalajdžisalihović, Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić, A. Sadiković","doi":"10.36534/erlj.2022.02.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36534/erlj.2022.02.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":270557,"journal":{"name":"Educational Role of Language Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122829005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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