Macrolinguistics and Microlinguistics

Current state of managing English teaching activities at universities under the Ministry of Public Security in Vietnam

2025-05-02T10:01:15+00:00

This study evaluates the current state of managing English teaching activities at universities under the Ministry of Public Security toward standardization. Using a combination of surveys, in-depth interviews, and statistical analysis, the research highlights strengths in planning and oversight while identifying gaps in execution, motivation, and innovation.

The preschool educational environment and its impact on children's personality development

2025-05-09T07:05:29+00:00

This study analyzes the role of the preschool educational environment in shaping children's personalities based on developmental theories. The educational environment encompasses not only physical elements but also the socio-cultural and emotional space, influencing traits such as autonomy, empathy, and the ability to cooperate. Through the synthesis of theoretical approaches and comparative analysis of the perspectives of Vygotsky, Bronfenbrenner, and Erikson, the study highlights the mechanisms of interaction between the environment and personality development. The results suggest principles for creating a safe, flexible, and interactive preschool environment that integrates moral values to foster the comprehensive development of children.

Early childhood education through a child-centered approach: Theoretical foundations and key issues

2025-05-09T07:15:58+00:00

This paper explores the foundations and key issues of early childhood education through a child-centered lens. It reviews major educational theories from Vygotsky, Piaget, and the Reggio Emilia approach to highlight how children actively construct knowledge in socially and emotionally rich environments. The study emphasizes the roles of the environment, teachers, and play-based learning in fostering autonomy, creativity, and holistic development. Despite the benefits, the paper identifies challenges such as limited teacher training, inadequate resources, rigid curricula, and inconsistent policy support. In response, it proposes theoretical and policy-driven solutions, advocating for flexible frameworks, sustained professional development, and investment in inclusive learning environments to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Issues in the development of the economy, culture, and society in connection with ensuring national defense and security in the Southeast Region today

2025-06-05T08:09:53+00:00

The development of the economy, culture, and society serves as the foundation for ensuring national defense and security in the Southeast region. It provides both the material and spiritual prerequisites for maintaining defense and security, thereby preserving a peaceful and stable environment for rapid and sustainable development. This study outlines the current landscape of economic, cultural, and social development in connection with ensuring national defense and security in the Southeast region. It analyzes and assesses emerging issues that need to be addressed, such as the unsustainable nature of industrialization and modernization; security concerns in the Southeast sea and island areas affecting Vietnam’s maritime exploitation activities; environmental pollution; and limitations in transportation infrastructure and social issues resulting from the urbanization process.

Form and qualitative features of demonstratives in ethiosemitic languages

2024-11-14T12:58:09+00:00

Based on the cross-linguistic typological observations in Himmelmann (1996), Diessel (1999), and Dixon (2003, 2010), this study is concerned with the basic form and qualitative functions of demonstratives in Ethiosemitic languages. Ethiosemitic languages use various deictic elements in communication. There are two main demonstrative bases. Regarding the qualitative features, demonstratives can express information about whether the referent is female or male; a single entity or plural; or human or non-human; however, significant variation has been observed in the demonstrative systems among the given languages. Like the basic form, the independent third-person pronoun form also provides some qualitative information about the referent.

The semantics of the Amharic verb alə ‘say’ as an auxiliary:

2025-04-27T01:04:54+00:00

Contemporary Amharic has three verbal forms: alǝ ‘say,’ al(ǝ) ‘aux’, and –al ‘infl’ sharing phonological similarity and the same semantic origin. Previous literature, however, treats them as if they are independent of each other in forms and meanings. On the contrary, this study presents an alternative description treating the three forms as interrelated based on converging evidence, following a grammaticalization process and collecting 43 sets of data from various written sources as a result the study identified the auxiliary al’s and its grammaticalized meanings; introducing single and double words and expressing subjectivity to independent clauses it introduced. As a single-word introducer, the auxiliary alǝ provided meanings such as valency changer, modal auxiliary, expressive marker, verbalizer (light verb) and enclitic word introducer; as a double words introducer the entire construction provided figurative meanings and as a linker of two clauses al(ǝ) ‘aux’ gave subjectivity readings to the entire event encoded by the construction.