Tina Cok

• Doctor of Education
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Primorska

The present paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the verbal aspect in general and with special emphasis on the comparison of Chinese and Slovenian lexical aspect. Recognised discrepancies between the conceptualisation and verbalisation of actions in unrelated languages indicate that deeper cognitive differences affect our perception of realit...

In the present article, following the course of the spread of COVID-19 in China, nearby Italy, and Slovenia, we analyse how public attitudes towards China have evolved in Slovenia and the Slovenian minority territory in Italy and Croatia. The exploration of media discourse highlighted in the present article is based on the awareness of the expressi...

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In terms of integration policy, Slovenia is considered a country that promotes the integration of children with an immigrant background into schools as quickly as possible. However fast the integration process may be, languages always play a key role in the education of pupils with an immigrant background and teachers need to adapt to their differe...

In this chapter, I assess the classification enhanced and proposed in Chap. 3 by means of an empirical study that brings to light the evidence of conceptual discrepancies between languages. The empirical study involves language tests performed with native speakers of Chinese, Italian and Slovenian, who were asked to assess their perception of the d...

Using Chinese, Italian and Slovene as examples, I develop a theoretical framework suitable for classifying aspectual systems in unrelated languages. I base my proposal on existing classifications (Smith, The parameter of aspect, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1997; Xiao and McEnery, Aspect in Mandarin Chinese. A corpus-based study, John Ben...

In this chapter, I discuss the intricate relationship between language, culture and cognition as proposed by scholars in the fields of philosophy, linguistic anthropology, and cognitive and applied linguistics, and set forth my ideas about this interconnectedness, which I believe plays a key role in how people perceive, comprehend and verbalise the...

With this monograph, I aimed to establish unrelatedness between languages—the typological, geographical and psychological distance between languages—as an important aspect of the foreign language acquisition process. In particular, I investigated how structural unrelatedness affects the acquisition of construal systems, assuming that these are not...

In the final chapter, I summarise the results of the empirical study and put the empirical findings into practice by presenting guidelines and recommendations for raising cross-language awareness in third language acquisition. The empirical findings, which confirm that speakers conceptualise reality differently often depending on their first langua...

The paper attempts to analyse the semantic and syntactic idiosyncrasy of Chinese, compared to Slovenian, in order to assess the degree of languagespecifi city with regards to actions. Based on data obtained from an empirical study performed on Chinese native speakers at the Capital Normal University in Beijing, we try to show how language-specific...

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The paper presents a meta-analysis of 37 scientific papers dealing with the use and adoption of ICT for learning and teaching Chinese as a foreign language. It has shown that systematic content reviews providing overall insight into the nature and level of development in the field are rare. The author tries to fill this content gap by answering thr...