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The article "Learning Through Practice: On How Kemyt Contributed to Crafting and Transmitting Scribal Knowledge" by Aurore Motte examines the practices of ancient Egyptian scribes and how they transmitted their knowledge. It analyzes the structure of the Kemyt text and the choice of ink and writing direction used. It is determined that there was a complex network of scribes who contributed to the development and transmission of written knowledge. The Kemyt text has been found in various materials and regions of Egypt and describes different features of the Kemyt specimens found in Deir el-Medina. Various types of corrections and revisions in Egyptian literary texts are also described. The texts demonstrate the changes in literary culture during the New Kingdom. Various aspects of Egyptian script and language are also addressed. [Extracted from the article]

This paper explores how students build narrative in collaborative reading processes using the picture book Wazn Teez? (Ellis 2017) to construct the narrative in collaborative reading processes. The focus is on their linguistic and school experiences as well as the differences in interaction in the construction of meaning. Students with Arabic, German and Russian as their first languages were examined in an exploratory study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the specifics of the general and business language training in the modern business services industry in Poland. The primary research objective is to determine the relevant characteristics of the outsourcing branch in the internal, general and professional training. These are relevant in terms of adapting, updating or modifying German as a foreign language-oriented teacher training in German Philology studies in Poland. Thus innovative, contemporary tailor-made didactic solutions, methods, means and techniques can be implemented, and graduates can be provided with more efficient professional language training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the role of listening comprehension in foreign language teaching, this paper illustrates the importance of phonological competence in general and prosody in particular in facilitating the auditory decoding process. Subsequently, the new phonological control scale in the companion volume of the CEFR is presented, which, in contrast to the previous scale, also emphasises the suprasegmental aspects of language. These are crucial in the receptive phase to break down the flow of language into smaller units of meaning, which are easier to process in short-term memory and thus support the decoding process. Finally, micro listening exercises are shown, created with authentic material and designed to promote receptive prosodic competence in German as a foreign language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With increasing migration and mobility, German at the workplace has become an important topic in the field of German as a foreign Language/German as a second language. Vocational language skills can be measured with the help of various tests for the profession. The Goethe-Test PRO: German for professionals (GTP) is one of those tests that provides evidence of vocational language skills. This article first deals with the vocational orientation, the test format and the adaptive test procedure of the GTP. The second part of this paper is devoted to the description of its psychometric quality. Finally, the results are discussed with regard to the relevance of vocational tests for German as a foreign language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The therapy of children with a disability is mostly complex and interdisciplinary. Due to occurring stagnations, affected parents also use alternative options to support their child, like animal-assisted therapy. In the context of children with a disability dolphin-assisted therapy (DT) is often cited. The present paper describes that form of therapy. Theories and studies about the effectiveness are reported. Finally a case report about a girl with succinic-semialdehyde-dehydrogenase-deficiency (SSADHD) and her linguistic abilities before and after a DT is presented. During the data acquisition, a triangulation of methods (parent-interviews, questionnaires, tests) as well as hospitations in the DT-sessions were performed. The post-testing showed effects in speech comprehension and participation in daily life. Because their promotion was not explicitly part of the DT, it remains unclear, to what the effects can be traced. The results are critically discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this study is to analyse the influence of the principle of verification on religious language and the solutions produced for the problem of verification. What makes this subject important is the fact that, especially in logical positivism, religious assertions are claimed to have no meaning as they cannot be verified. However, ordinary language philosophy has shown that languages have many uses, and verification is not the necessary condition for an utterance to have a meaning. Therefore, the focus of this paper is on ordinary language philosophy, along with the nature of religious language. Besides, the principle of falsification is included so as to ensure a comprehensive evaluation on the subject matter. The problems of reference, meaning and truth in religious assertions are covered and the possibility of a semantic theory for religious language is discussed. Additionally, the applicability of some approaches, such as speech acts, conventionality and language games, in ordinary language philosophy to religious language is examined. Finally, objections to the approaches mentioned are evaluated, and having underlined the difficulties in establishing an efficient religious language, some proposals are put forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]