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Improving your memory

Date of reading : 12.05.2021

Author :  Rebecca Vukovic

Everyone sometimes forgets where they left their keys or what they were supposed to do at the time. Such lapses of memory are completely normal in everyone. However, we should do everything in our power to make them happen as rarely as possible. There are a lot of things to do to improve your memory. There are many things you can do to avoid such memory lapses.

One way to improve your memory is to use supplements to help take care of our memory and make our memory lapses weaker and less frequent. We should, of course, use these natural plant-based supplements instead of cloud supplements, which can increase our problem not only with our memory but also with the rest of our oraganism.

There are also memory exercises that allow us to improve it. Various logic games and puzzles will help us to do this. They force our brain to work constantly. Thanks to this it gets used to such work, by starting to remember more information, which leads to a decrease in our memory lapses.

Thanks to these ways, we are able to increase our memory and prevent memory loss from making our lives miserable, and when we get to the point of getting rid of it completely, our lives will be simpler.

New words/phrases :

lapses - zaniki - пробелы

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How teachers are working with students to mitigate stress

Date of reading : 21.04.2021

Author :  Dominique Russell

Data consistently shows that students are dealing with high levels of stress and other mental health issues, and that many choose to turn to their teachers for support with these struggles. A new report published in the Australian Journal of Education looks at how teachers manage student wellbeing concerns and academic stress in order to progress learning.

An interview was conducted on 22 teachers from different schools to gain insight into their perspectives and experiences. The educators were asked to share how they manage student wellbeing needs and academic performance, the support structures available in their school context, and the causes of stress in students.

‘Teachers proactively sought ways to create margins of time and space (mental and physical) for their students, whether by buffering the pressures of an overcrowded curriculum and data-driven audit cultures, finding physical outlets for stressed and traumatised students, or providing mental breaks and mindful time for overwhelmed students,’ the researchers write.

The interviews revealed three main themes: pressures and stresses students bring with them to school; academic pressures and stresses encountered at school; and the role of teachers as mitigators and mediators.

Teachers try to help children in schools with conversation and support from a psychologist. Teachers try to help children in schools with conversation and support from a psychologist. Any child can come to any teacher or school psychologist with their problem.

In conclusion, teachers do their best to help children with their problems and try to make them feel safe and well at school

New words/phrases : 

overcrowded curriculum - przepełniony program nauczania - переполненный учебный план

mitigate - zmniejszać - уменьшаться

student wellbeing concerns - troska o dobre samopoczucie uczniów -  забота о благополучии учащихся

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Metacognition as superordinate concept of metalinguistics.

Date of reading 17.03.2021 Author:Marta Kopcikova

Title of article: METACOGNITION AS A SUPERORDINATE CONCEPT OF METALINGUISTICS: THE ROLE IN DEVELOPING READING SKILLS IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE This article talks about theoretical analysis of the relationship between metacognition and its subordinate concept metalinguistic. Undertanding that language is incredybly important. The aim of article is to highlight the holistic nature of learning. It tells that metalinguistic abilities, such as word, form, phonological and pragmatic awarness are introduced and suggestions for activities and everyday interactions to facilitate their development are outlined. Mainly this article focuses on explaining the role of metacognition and metalinguistics in particular towards the development of reading skills. In conclusion metacognition and metalinguistics is very importatnt to improve your reading skills that will help you in understanding things in everyday life.

New words/phrases:

facilitate - ułatwić - лёгкость

reading comprehension - rozumienie tekstu czytanego - понимание прочитанного

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Assimilation of English borrowings in Japanese

Date of reading 02.01.2021 Author: Justyna Wawrzyniuk

Title of article: ASSIMILATION OF ENGLISH BORROWINGS IN JAPANESE

Author in this article provides a corpus-based analysis of English borrowings in Japanese language with focus on the assimilation processes which the borrowed items undergo. The corpus has been compiled by the author using a number of websites used by speakers of Japanese. The study shows that most of the borrowings undergo graphic and phonetic assimilation, such as vowel insertion and sound substitution.The borrowings from English often co-exist with their native equivalents and are used interchageably.The corpus consist of 90 borrowings of English. In conclusion English loanwords entering Japanese undergo a number of assimilaton processes.

New words/phrases:

loanword - zapożyczenie -   заимствованное слово

undergo - podlegać - пройти

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How a pronoun influences the meaning of a sentence for people at different stages of development

Date of reading 08.12.2020 Author: Marti Palla Title of article: PRESCHOOL CHILDREN’S SENSITIVITY TO THE GENERIC AND NON-GENERIC DISTINCTIONS Date of publication: 5th August 2019 Some things are obvious to us, but unfortunately not for everyone and at any age. We perceive some differences when we gain more experience or when we reach a certain age and become more aware.

In the kindergarten in Białystok research has been carried out to check how children react to pronouns implemented in similar tenses. They have been presented to them in reference to the pictures. Several excercises showed that the older the children the more differences they preceive in certain tenses and the context which they were written in reference to the illustration given. Younger children didn’t notice any difference in the tenses with pronoun added, while older children became more and more aware of differences in tasks with and without pronouns.

Summing up, the older we get, our brain begins to better distinguish the influence of the pronoun on the given sentence and its context.

New words/phrases:

implemented - wporwadzone -  реализовано

distinguish - rozróżniać -  отличать

perceive - dostrzec - воспринимать

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Students difficulties in learning grammar

Date of reading: 25.10.2020 Authors: Cristina Vieira Da Silva, Íris Susana Pires Pereira, Isabel Sebastiao

Title of article: PORTUGUESE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF GRAMMAR TEACHING

Date of publication: 5th August 2019

The greatest difficulties in learning grammar for students are: Grammatical contents difficulty, Grammatical content level of abstraction and Lack of skills and prior knowledge. I can say it's true because I know from my own experience what caused the most problems for me and I can also agree with the statement in the article.In a high school I had problem with learning tenses. I couldn’t remember when i should use past simple,present prefrect etc. It was so hard for me that i am having problem with it till today, but i’m stilll trying to improve my skills in that field.

In conclusion grammar is a hard batch of material, but if you really want to learn some new language it all depends on you.

New words/phrases: Batch of material- partia materiału- партия материала prior-wcześniejszy- предшествующий improve-ulepszać-улучшить