Language Environment: From Concept to Principles of Creation
https://doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2022-31-7-123-136
Abstract
Language environment is now being created and cultivated in most Russian universities. However, as a concept it has been defined quite fragmentary, and in many cases is completely ignored as something obvious and self-evident. In this paper, we conduct a literature review of most typical definitions of this phenomenon and identify a set of features underlying its understanding. We then propose a more precise definition of language environment and highlight the basic principles that contribute to its effective functioning and ensure the linguistic socialization of an individual. We suggest that our “definition-assumption” and the minimum set of principles should be at the core of university measures towards creating a foreign language environment.
Keywords
foreign language environment,
features of language environment,
principles of creating a language environment,
language socialization,
the English language
Supporting agencies: This research was supported by Tomsk Polytechnic University development program.
About the Authors
Yu. P. Pokholkov
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yuriy P. Pokholkov – Dr. Sci. (Engineering), Prof., Head of the Research Center for Management and Technologies in Higher Education
30, Lenin Avenue, Tomsk, 634050
L. N. Goryanova
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Lyubov N. Goryanova – Cand. Sci. (Philology), Assoc. Prof., the Research Center for Management and Technologies in Higher Education, the Department of English Philology
36, Lenin Avenue, Tomsk, 634050
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