ISBN 978-80-89864-15-7 Language, Literature and Culture in Education 2019 Conference Proceedings 1 ISBN 978-80-89864-15-7 2 ISBN 978-80-89864-15-7 Language, Literature and Culture in Education 2019 Conference Proceedings 5 – 7 December 2019 Rome, Italy 3 ISBN 978-80-89864-15-7 Editor: Silvia Pokrivčáková, 2020 © Conference Organisers • Faculty of Education, University of Trnava, Slovakia • Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov, Slovakia • National Pedagogical Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia • SlovakEdu Nitra, Slovakia Reviewing process All papers published in the LLCE2019 Conference Proceeding were peer-reviewed through a double-blind system by two members of the LLCE2019 International Scientific Advisory Board. The reviewers' identities remain anonymous to authors. Reviewers Branislav Bédi (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Iceland) Ivana Cimermanová, doc. PaedDr., PhD. (University of Prešov, Slovakia) Jitka Crhova, PhD. (Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, México) Jaroslav Kušnír, prof. PhDr., PhD. (University of Prešov, Slovakia) Prof. Zuzana Straková (Prešov University, Slovakia) Acknowledgement The LLCE2019 conference was organised as part of the following projects: • KEGA 001TTU-4/2019: University education of non-native teachers of foreign languages in national and international contexts • VEGA 1/0799/18: National Literatures in the Age of Globalisation (Origin and Development of American-Slovak Literary and Cultural Identity) Both projects have been funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. 4 ISBN 978-80-89864-15-7 Copyright information Submitted papers are assumed to contain no proprietary material unprotected by patent or patent application; responsibility for technical content and for protection of proprietary material rests solely with the author(s) and their organizations and is not the responsibility of the SlovakEdu or its Editorial Staff. 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(Quoted from: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) 5 ISBN 978-80-89864-15-7 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 7 Understanding the concept of effective English as a foreign language 9 teaching Rastislav Metruk, University of Žilina, Slovakia Teaching receptive skills and the elements of culture through online 15 sources to primary school learners of English Karolina Ditrych, Uniwersytet Technologiczno – Humanistyczny in Radom, Poland Assessing spoken proficiency: holistic and analytic ways of scoring 28 Rastislav Metruk, University of Žilina, Slovakia Teaching systems in the teaching of literature 35 Jakov Sabljić & Lorena Đurčević, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia Active Shakespeare in the EFL classroom 44 Louise Kocianová, University of Trnava, Slovakia On usage specifications in dictionaries for learners of English: Cambridge 53 Idioms Dictionary and Oxford Idioms Dictionary in focus Anna Stachurska, University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Poland Kashubian as an ausbau language: a sociolinguistic perspective 65 Rafał Gołąbek, University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Poland Naïve narrator – an effective means in humour creating 78 Jana Waldnerová, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia Andrić’s (Magic) Realism in the Novel The Bridge on the Drina 89 Marijana Bošnjak & Tina Varga Oswald, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia Transtextual references and their role in Middlemarch by George Eliot 111 Agata Buda, University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Poland Slovak American literature: Imagological reading of Thomas Bell´s Out of 122 This Furnace Anton Pokrivčák, University of Trnava, Slovakia 6 ISBN 978-80-89864-15-7 Introduction The main intention of the series of annually-organised interational conferences entitled Language, Literature and Culture in Education (LLCE) is to create a working platform for academics, researchers, scholars, teacher trainers and teachers to discuss, exchange and share their research results, projects, experiences, and new ideas about all aspects of studies in language, literature, culture and related areas in an effective international atmosphere. The series itself follows and enriches the tradition of the conferences Foreign Languages and Cultures at School (2002-2013). The international dimension of the conference is every year ensured by personal or virtual engagement of participants from various schools and institutions from all continents. The conference LLCE2019, held on 5 – 7 December 2019 in Rome, Italy, was organised as part of two projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic: • KEGA 001TTU-4/2019: University education of non-native teachers of foreign languages in national and international contexts • VEGA 1/0799/18: National Literatures in the Age of Globalisation (Origin and Development of American-Slovak Literary and Cultural Identity). The LLCE2019 Proceedings consists of nine research studies which cover basic areas of contemporary philology: language education, applied linguistics, and literary studies. In his study “Understanding the concept of effective English as a foreign language teaching”, the Slovak lecturer Rastislav Metruk discusses possible benefits of a learner- centred approach to teaching foreign languages (employing pair-work and group-work activities, respecting learners’ needs and feelings, generating learners´ interests, creating foreign-language-friendly environment in the classroom). The Polish academic Karolina Ditrych contributed with her paper “Teaching receptive skills and the elements of culture through online sources to primary school learners of English” in which she concentrates on the importance of developing foreign language receptive skills of primary learners and the invaluable role of culture in this process. The area of literary education is discussed by the Croatian academics Jakov Sabljić & Lorena Đurčević in their paper “Teaching systems in the teaching of literature“. They introduce the overview of fundamental literature-teaching systems with their basic characteristics, followed by analysis of practical observations in school classrooms. The Glasgow University graduate Louise Kocianová introduces an active approach which dominates when teaching of Shakespeare in UK schools. In her paper “Active 7 ISBN 978-80-89864-15-7 Shakespeare in the EFL classroom“, she presents her latest findings as a result of pedagogical practice with Slovak secondary school students who studied and performed scenes from the Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew. Applied lingusitics is represented by two papers from two Polish academics: Anna Stachurska and Rafał Gołąbek. The paper “On usage specifications in dictionaries for learners of English: Cambridge Idioms Dictionary and Oxford Idioms Dictionary in focus” by Anna Stachurska studies English idioms and focuses on the question of how usage of English idioms is marked within two most representative idioms dictionaries, namely Oxford Idioms Dictionary and Cambridge Idioms Dictionary. Rafał Gołąbek´s paper titled “Kashubian as an ausbau language: a sociolinguistic perspective” addresses the status of Kashubian, a lect spoken in northern Poland and concludes that it seems plausible to postulate that Kashubian has attained the status of an ausbau language. The literary session of the LLCE2020 conference generated several interesting interpretative papers. The Slovak literary scholar Jana Waldnerova presented the paper ”Naïve narrator – an effective means in humour creating” in which she focused on literary humour and a specific method of its creating, which is by incorporation of the naïve narrator. The mechanism of irony was explained in the paper, as well. In their study ”Andrić’s (Magic) Realism in the Novel The Bridge on the Drina”, the Croatian colleagues from Josip Juraj Strossmayer University