Receptive multilingualism in tertiary education

Chovancová, Katarína, 1977-

Receptive multilingualism in tertiary education : enhancing reading comprehension skills and training multilingual readers / Katarína Chovancová, Darina Veverková, Marek Ľupták. -- The paper discusses the importance of building up receptive multilingualism in tertiary education on the background of current linguistic and curricular policies, giving space to a wide-spread presence of English as a lingua franca. It puts forward results of comparative research on receptive multilingualism of young Slovak speakers in relation to a genetically related language laying stress on the factor of contextual prediction. Understanding contextualized and uncontextualized items in a written text is measured in correlation to main features of linguistic repertories of speakers. The study opens up towards metalinguistic and reflexive components of one's communicative competence as well, identifying possible key factors enhancing intercomprehension.

In Ad Alta : journal of interdisciplinary research. -- Hradec Králové : Magnanimitas, 2019. -- ISSN 1804-7890. -- ISSN 2464-6733. -- Vol. 9, no. 1 (2019), pp. 314-320