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DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.101.024.202004.576-590
Sociocultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Mid-European (Slovak) Economic and Technological Space
Pavol Burcl
Assistant Professor of English, Language Centre, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (1 Hodzova St., Nitra 94974, Slovakia), Ph.D. (Philol.), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6157-2817, Scopus ID: 55757613700, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Zuzana Kozarova
Assistant Professor of English and Russian, Language Centre, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (1 Hodzova St., Nitra 94974, Slovakia), Ph.D. (Philol.), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1693-2342, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Olga Csalova
Assistant Professor of English and Russian, Language Centre, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (1 Hodzova St., Nitra 94974, Slovakia), Ph.D. (Philol.), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2880-357X, Scopus ID: 55756159100, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Renata Pavlova
Assistant Professor of German and Slovak, Language Centre, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (1 Hodzova St., Nitra 94974, Slovakia), Ph.D. (Philol.), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0665-3702, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Elena Zelenicka
Professor of Russian, Faculty of Arts, Language Centre, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (1 Hodzova St., Nitra 94974, Slovakia), Ph.D. (Philol.), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2515-202X, Scopus ID: 57211873815, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Introduction. Social cultural aspect and linguistic diversity of educational background play an important role in teaching a foreign language. Although there are a lot of publications on this theme, it is hardly possible to find surveys which study the impact of globalization accompanied by the English language expansion, on transformation of cultural identity. The aim of this article is to analyse changes of social cultural phenomena and linguistic diversity in common life and foreign languages education in a Mid-European (mostly Slovak) economic and technological spheres.
Materials and Methods. Within this research the content analysis method was employed together with critical comparison of relative scientific papers and other materials in the respect of the problem investigated. Questionnaires were developed and educators who run practice oriented professional programmes were interviewed. After the results of the interview being analysed and synthetized, some crucial points of the discussed problem were revealed.
Results. The research revealed the main factors which determine diversity of linguistic communication in a Mid-European former socialist country (Slovakia as an example); reasons and types of social cultural transformations in the society under research were analysed; economic and technological conditions of the transformations discussed were defined; recommendations for educators who run practice oriented professional programmes were developed.
Discussion and Conclusion. The results of the research done are considered to be some contribution to the development of bilingual practice oriented education under the condition of European economic and technological integration. However, the task of reserving peculiar cultural values of the nation which is subject to unavoidable social cultural transformations is the major one in this respect.
Keywords: sociocultural phenomena, linguistic diversity, foreign language teaching/learning process, cultural area, the Mid-European economic and technological area
Funding: This article is supported by the grant project – KEGA 005UKF-4/2019 Innovation of Language Training in the Context of Dual and Lifelong Learning in Line with the Specific Needs of the Region. The person in charge of the project is Burcl and the research team consists of Kozarova, Csalova, Pavlova, and Zelenicka. The article represents one of the project outputs.
For citation: Burcl P., Kozarova Z., Csalova O., Pavlova R., Zelenicka E. Sociocultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Mid-European (Slovak) Economic and Technological Space. Integratsiya obrazovaniya = Integration of Education. 2020; 24(4):576-590. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.101.024.202004.576-590
Contribution of authors:
Pavol Burcl – thematic concept; co-supervision; study conception; data collection and evidence; initial text writing; critical analysis and text editing.
Zuzana Kozarova – data collection and evidence; critical analysis and text editing.
Olga Csalova – co-supervision; study conception; drafting the final version of the text.
Renata Pavlova – data collection and evidence; critical analysis and text editing.
Elena Zelenicka – scientific supervision; study conception.
All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Submitted 24.09.2020; revised 23.10.2020; published online 30.09.2020.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
