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Centre for foreign languages for specific purposes

At the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the study of foreign languages for specific purposes and academic foreign languages occupies a significant place at all levels of study. English and German are taught as compulsory and as elective subjects. In addition to these, there are also other languages of choice (Spanish, French or Italian). The Centre for Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes is located at the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. It was founded in October 2007 on the initiative of the Chair of Social Geography and Teaching Methodology, and it brings together teachers in all ranks who teach foreign languages at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. One of the goals of founding the Centre is to conduct research in the field of applied linguistics and foreign language teaching methodology in higher education with the aim of improving teaching and methods of learning foreign languages at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The main research topics include areas of applied linguistics, such as contrastive analysis, corpus analysis, metadiscourse analysis, multimodal research, then research into the experience of language learning in a specific context – professional and/or academic, language learning strategies, development of specific communicative competencies in the language for specific purposes, evaluation of theoretical positions in applied linguistics and language for specific purposes, cultural aspects of learning/teaching the language for specific purposes, needs analysis, etc. Other professional interests include continuous professional development and development of curricula of academic language for specific purposes and elements of the teaching process at the tertiary level in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the Bologna Process. Finally, the Centre also enables the establishment of cooperation with other similar centres and research groups in our country and abroad.

Members of the research group:

PhD Ljiljana Knežević, Associate Professor – ljiljana.knezevic@dbe.uns.ac.rs
PhD Dragana Vuković Vojnović, Assistant Professor – dragana.vukovic.vojnovic@dgt.uns.ac.rs
PhD Stanka Radojičić, Foreign Language Teacher – stanka.radojicic@dgt.uns.ac.rs
Marija Nićin, Foreign Language Teacher – marija.nicin@dgt.uns.ac.rs
Dejan Knežević, Foreign Language Teacher – dejan.knezevic@dgt.uns.ac.rs

Contact:

PhD Dragana Vuković Vojnović, Assistant Professor (English Language)
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Novi Sad, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management,
Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3, 21 000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
email: dragana.vukovic.vojnovic@dgt.uns.ac.rs

Other international cooperation: University of Eastern Finland, Finland; University of Minho, Portugal; University of Primorska, Slovenia.

Selected references and projects

  • Milivojević, N. and Radojičić, S. (2022). Directed Communicative Modeling as an ESP Teaching Strategy at Tertiary Level: Recontextualization and Other Issues. Proceedings of the 5th International Language Conference Contemporary Challenges in LSP Teaching, Edited by: S. Kereković and B. Bošnjak Terzić, Zagreb, Croatia: Association of LSP Teachers at Higher Education Institutions, ISSN: 2939-2101, pp. 190-208
  • Vuković Vojnović, D. (2021). Key Noun + Noun Collocations in the Language of Tourism: A Corpus-Based Study of English and Serbian. ELOPE, Vol. 18 (2), 51-68 URL: revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope, https://doi.org/10.4312/elope.18.2.51-68 M23
  • Radojičić, S. and D. Vuković Vojnović (2021). Real World Issues in English Language Learning for Geosciences. The Fifth Serbian Congress of Geographers, 2021. Innovative Approach and Perspectives of the Applied Geography. Collection of Papers. Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Prirodno-matematički fakultet. 285-290 M33
  • Knežević, Lj., Halupka Rešetar, S., Miškeljin, I., Milić, M. (2021). Millennials as dictionary users: A study of dictionary use habits of Serbian EFL students. Sage Open, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211008422. M23
  • Knežević, Lj., Halupka Rešetar, S. (2020). What Causes the Scarce Use of Dictionaries in ESP Courses? A Qualitative Analysis of the Teachers' Perspective. In: (Izgarjan, A., Đurić, D., Halupka-Rešetar, S., Eds.), Aspects of Transnationality in American Literature and American English, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad: 352-371. M14
  • Knežević, Lj., Županec, V., Radulović, B. (2020). Flipping the Classroom to Enhance Academic Vocabulary Learning in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Course. Sage Open, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020957052. M23
  • Vuković Vojnović, D. (2020). Enhancing ESP Vocabulary Practice with Online Corpus Analysis Tools. Contemporary Research in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. (eds. Dana di Pardo Leon Henri and Bhawana Jain). Cambridge Scholars. 163-183 M14
  • Vuković Vojnović, D. (2020). Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Tourism Websites – The Promotion of Cultural Values through the Language of Tourism. Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90: proceedings. Vol. 1 / International Conference to Mark the 90th Anniversary of the English Department, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade; (editor-in-chief Biljana Čubrović). Belgrade: Faculty of Philology, 2020 (Užice: Grafičar), 449 – 470 M52
  • Vuković Vojnović, D., S. Radojičić and Lj. Knežević. (2019). Intercultural communicative competence and language education at university level. FERA Conference on Education. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu 21. – 22. 11. 2019 M34
  • Knežević, LJ. i Vuković Vojnović, D. (2018). Differences in the Use of L2 Learning Strategies among Students of Mathematics, Computer Science and Tourism. Zbornik radova sa Četvrte konferencije Strani jezik struke i profesionalni identitet.Univerzitet u Beogradu, Učiteljski fakultet: pp.155-165
  • Halupka Rešetar, S., Knežević, Lj., Topalov, J. (2018). Revisiting willingness to communicate in English as a foreign language the Serbian perspective. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol 39 No 10: 912 – 924
  • Radojičić S. (2018). Hedges and Boosters in University Textbooks. Proceedings of the 10th International Language Conference on the Importance of Learning Professional Foreign Languages for Communication between Cultures, Full Papers, Edited by: P. Vičič, N. Gajšt, A. Plos, Celje, Slovenia: University of Maribor, Faculty of Logistics, pp. 317-327 (ISBN-13: 978-961-286-252-7)
  • Halupka Rešetar, S., Knežević, Lj. (2016). Refusals in the production of Serbian ESP learners. Facta Universitatis, Series: Linguistics and Literature, 14(2):103-116
  • Milivojević, N. i S. Radojičić (2016). Tekstualna kompetencija, (inter)tekstualnost i nastava stranih jezika na univerzitetskom nivou u kontekstu evrointegracija. Zbornik radova sa međunarodnog naučnog skupa Nauka i evrointegracije.Pale, Republika Srpska, Bosna i Hercegovina: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Istočnom Sarajevu, str. 323-341 (ISBN 979-99938-47-78-6)
  • Vuković Vojnović, D. (2016). Poetic and Narrative Elements in the Language of Tourism. 37e colloque international du GERAS. Book of Abstracts. Paris: Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis. M34
  • Mentor Vademecum, Bilateral Cooperation Project between the Republic of Serbia and the Slovak Republic for the period 2022-2023. Contact person: Dr. Branka Radulović
  • Mentor Training (MenTra), 2020-1-SK01-KA201-078250, Erasmus+KA2 Cooperation for Innovation, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics partner, 2020-2023. Contact person: Dr. Branka Radulović
  • Use of Dictionaries in Teaching English for Specific Purposes at the Tertiary Level of Education (142-451-3684/2017), Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research Activity, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics partner, 2017-2018. Contact person: Dr. Ljiljana Knežević