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Authors: Ken COLLINS7

This is a new type of language–learning activity which can be done online in class or at home by students. Within a 50-word limit, students are encouraged to tell a story which can be fact, fiction, poetry or prose in the target language (English). The competition is judged internationally, with the active encouragement of a teaching institution which then has to develop new links with business to provide prizes. In an appropriate ceremony for prizewinners, it can publicise itself through the students’ use of English. Reference is also made to methodology available to stimulate the learning of English in the classroom. Keywords: language-learning competition, corpora for research, host institution, further teaching material

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Authors: Ruxandra CONSTANTINESCU-ŞTEFĂNEL

The present development of science and the globalization of information have resulted into an increase of the number of concepts and terms denominating the same, as well as into strengthening the importance of terminology and terminography. This article presents a project which is part of this trend, answering the need of the beneficiary and of the whole target audience to possess a reliable instrument enabling them to have access to international accounting standards, to increase the Romanian researchers’ international visibility and to reinforce their connections with professional accountants all over the world. The project consists of a bilingual English-Romanian and Romanian-English dictionary of financial accounting, accompanied by a glossary in French, German, Russian, Italian and Spanish. Drawn up according to the methodology prescribed by the specialised literature, based on the most significant bibliography in the field, it is meant for all the specialists who wish to apply cutting-edge accounting methods in their work, and wish, personally or by their works, to strengthen their relationships with experts from various countries or to present to the world their scientific vision of accountancy. Keywords: bilingual dictionary,multilingual glossary, financial accounting, term, special language

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Authors: Mariana SĂNDULESCU

It is a well-known fact that the dimension patemica our research is focussed on is vital in daily newspapers, especially in nowadays newspapers. In many cases feelings constitute news, thus becoming the very object of the journalistic information. In the following study we propose a general analysis, valid for any economic page or daily newspaper in order to underline the diffusion and pervasive dimension of love level in the journalistic discourse, even if each and every feeling is not nominated; it is extremely important to stress that neither isolated lexemes nor isolated news are the only issues discussed in this article - but also a level of meaning going over the entire significance of the journalistic text - in various ways and in different modulations. Keywords: dimension patemica, euphoria, dysphoria, involvement timica, tension of information, model-reader

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Authors: Carmen PEREZ-LLANTADA AURIA

This article reports on an innovative practice entailing the use of an EAP literacy portfolio as a pedagogical tool for initiating adult language learners in higher education into a language/competency-oriented learning while building up a supportive environment and setting off a culture for learning. The rationale underpinning this integrated language/competency oriented approach was double-fold: firstly, to stimulate the students’ competence in a repertoire of academic literacies and, secondly, to formulate appropriate instructional interventions regarding curricular design, classroom methodology and language assessment system. The article describes the procedures carried out for implementing this integrative approach – namely, designing a coherent instruction and teaching materials, planning classroom work, introducing on-line learner management systems for monitoring progress, assessing student performance and supporting on-going, measurable progress of linguistic, metacognitive and interpersonal competencies. On pedagogical grounds, the article discusses how the ELP becomes a suitable tool to make the course content and pedagogy stay true to the linguistic and generic communicative skills that lie at the heart of academia. In addition, it assesses the advantages of the ELP in helping diagnose each student’s conceptual and competency-oriented progress, organise, control and support the learning process and make students move from the reactive into the proactive. Keywords: language learning, EAP (English for Academic Purposes), ELP (European Language Portfolio), EAP literacy portfolio, academic literacies, TEFL (Teaching of English as a Foreign Language)