Erika-Mária Tódor

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania · Department of Human sciences

In this paper, I present a possible interdisciplinary, predominantly linguistic reading of the literary text, taking as a starting point the work of Andrei Dósa entitled Multă forţă şi un dram de gingăşie [Lots of Power and a Touch of Gentleness], published in 2021 by Polirom Publishing House. This way of re-reading allows us to go beyond the basic...

This time we have focused on classroom speech situations in a language other than a foreign language (or a broader environmental language), although the literature provides a plethora of research on this topic. In this paper, we have focused on the relationship between the state language/official language and the mother tongue, with special attenti...

In our presentation we will examine the diversity of linguistic attitudes of Hungarian speakers in Romania. Although there are several definitions for this concept from psychology and linguistics, linguistic attitudes are generally understood as the value judgments and attitudes that individuals form on the basis of their language socialization, la...

A rendszerezés igényével fellépő kvalitatív vizsgálatok módszertani hátterének elemzésénél lényeges tartalmi csomópontot jelent az idézetek használata. Jelen tanulmány a kutatási folyamat elméleti és gyakorlati aspektusainak összefüggéseire épít, ezért a teoretikus háttér mellett konkrét kutatási példák alapján illusztrálja az idézetek alkalmazható...

Education is one of the defining areas of language policy, as on this level we can track the features of the practical implementation of language ideologies. In my study, I deal with the question of teaching the official language, i.e. Romanian, in schools where the working language is Hungarian. I outline a summing-up situation based on the macro...

Neither grades nor formal indicators of teachers’ effectiveness measure the presence or the nature of humorous situations in classroom conversations although these situations are, in fact, the iceberg components of the teacher–student communication and are important indicators of the motivational-behavioural background as well as cohesion of the gr...

În prezentarea de față mă voi opri asupra a două concepte, aparținînd unor domenii înrudite din cadrul științelor filologice (translingvistica și portretul personajelor) și voi urmări cum anume se individualizează o abordare lingvistică în contextul artei cuvîntului. Situațiile translingvistice de comunicare sînt caracteristicile specifice ale cond...

The present paper focuses on two concepts of neighbouring disciplines within literary studies (translanguaging and character profiling), following how a linguistic approach emerges in the context of literature. Translanguaging communication situations are typical for a bi- or multilingual linguistic behaviour and they result from a holistic approac...

Language learners’ attitudes towards the language and its speakers greatly influence the language learning process and the learning outcomes. Previous research and studies on attitudes and motivation in language learning (Csizér 2007, Dörnyei 2009) show that attitudes and motivation are strongly intertwined. Positive attitude towards the language a...

In this paper, we explore the connections between a linguistic landscape and language ideologies in an elementary school in a village within the Hungarian region of Szeklerland in Romania. This ‘schoolscape’ is analysed as a display or materialization of the ‘hidden curriculum’ regarding the construction of linguistic and cultural identities. We dr...

This paper presents the specific features of a school population in Romania for whom Romanian is a non-native language, their mother tongue being Hungarian. The first part of the study offers a description of the main characteristics of the verbal behaviour of this bilingual population. The first subheading will discuss, on the one hand, the lingui...

Lucrarea de față are ca punct de plecare prezentarea specificului unei populații școlare din România pentru care limba română reprezintă limba ne-maternă, limba maternă fiind limba maghiară. Prima parte a lucrării oferă o caracterizare succintă a formelor de bilingvism care pot fi identificate în contextul acestei populații. Această subtemă va abor...

The aim of the article is to analyse the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the skills of reading and text-understanding, focusing on the comparative analysis of experiences of meaning in native language, Romanian and English in the case of Hungarian pupils. We attempted to present the qualitative indexes and factors of the process of reading...

A kommunikáció a nyelvi világlátás megnyilatkoztatásának összefüggés-rendszere, amelyből értelemszerűen következik, hogy a szót értés lényege a sajátos nyelvi világ fel- tárulása. Így tehát a Másik egynyelvűségének megértése nem csak a nyelvtudást, hanem a közös jelentésélményt is feltételezi. A hatékony kommunikáció lényege éppen azon je- lentésfe...