Анали Филолошког факултета
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Annals of the Faculty of Philology, the oldest academic journal of the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, publishes original research articles and critical review papers dealing with linguistic theory, applied linguistics, literature studies and other related disciplines. We also publish reviews of recently published linguistic and literature studies books.
The journal was founded in 1961 when the Faculty of Philology was established as an independent unit within the University of Belgrade, and has a long tradition of publishing articles on different languages and literatures studied at this institution of higher learning.
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- The Importance of Language Learning Strategies in Foreign Language Acquisition
- The paper reports the results of a study on language learning strategy preferences of higher-education students. It is motivated by an ever lower level of English proficiency although most of students have been studying English since the first grade of primary education. The translated version of the SILL questionnaire was used (Oxford, 1990), with several personal background questions added for the purpose of clarifying the results. The data were analysed using the SPSS software. The results show either low or medium strategy utilisation per category, social strategies being most frequently used, followed by compensation, metacognitive and cognitive ones, whereas affective and memory strategies were the least favoured. Average and high-proficiency students use a vast majority of strategies more often than low-proficiency ones. However, affective and memory strategies are most often employed by the least successful students. The comparison between male and female students’ strategy utilisation shows that the former use four categories of strategies more often than the latter, who are more frequent users of social strategies only. However, T-test results reveal statistically significant gender differences in the use of only several individual strategies. The above-mentioned, together with the fact that more than half of the students belong to the low-proficiency group, indicates that the explicit strategy instruction would be beneficial to their English language acquisition.
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- The “Small World” of Malcolm Bradbury
- Malcolm Bradbury’s novel The History Man (1975) represents one of the most famous campus novels in English. His interest in the university setting started in the fifties with his first novel Eating People is Wrong (1959) and it was finalized with his most famous university novel The History Man. In this paper we will pay attention to Bradbury’s satirical perspective on the university life.
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- Unlocking Trauma in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- The paper presents an analysis of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close in terms of the representation of trauma caused by the September 11 attacks that took place in New York in 2001. The novel's nine-year-old narrator Oskar Schell loses his father in the horrid event, which incites a traumatic experience. Aiming to mark the development of this experience, the paper employs the two following concepts: acting out and working through, which have been reintegrated into the field of trauma studies as such by Dominick LaCapra, and were initially Freudian terms (melancholia and mourning). The paper also comments on the belatedness in Oskar's experiencing trauma, an occurrence in realization that was explained by Sigmund Freud and reiterated by Cathy Caruth in her work concerning trauma. Following the analysis of Oskar's experience of trauma, the paper confirms his moving from the stage of acting out to that of working through, and concludes by confirming LaCapra's viewpoint, that a full closure might never occur.
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- Uticaj fonda usvojenih reči na razumevanje pročitanog stručnog teksta na engleskom jeziku — pilot istraživanje
- U radu su predstavljeni rezultati pilot istraživanja koje je obavljeno u toku dve akademske godine sa studentima prve godine forenzičkog inženjerstva na Kriminalističko-policijskom univerzitetu u Beogradu. Cilj istraživanja bio je da se utvrdi da li postoji, i ako postoji kakva je veza između fonda reči usvojenog tokom prethodnog školovanja sa razumevanjem pročitanog stručnog teksta. U tom smislu, u radu je najpre dat kratak pregled prethodnih sličnih istraživanja, koja su sprovedena širom sveta u različitim sredinama gde se uči engleski jezik. Sva istraživanja potvrdila su da postoji veza između poznavanja reči i razumevanja pročitanog teksta. Naše pilot istraživanje razlikuje se od prethodno navedenih po tome što smo pokušali da utvrdimo vezu između poznavanja reči i razumevanja stručnog teksta, dakle u kontekstu engleskog jezika struke. Podaci koje smo prikupili upitnikom i rezultati koji su dobijeni testiranjem ispitanika obrađeni su statistički. Nakon predstavljanja rezultata i diskusije o njima, u zaključku su između ostalog ponuđeni i predlozi za buduća istraživanja veze između fonda reči i razumevanja pročitanog stručnog teksta.