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Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii “Ovidius” Constanţa nr.30 / 2019 nr 1

LEON CRINA - PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF TEACHING ENGLISH TO JOURNALISM STUDENTS (pag. 104-114)

The English language is an absolutely necessary means of communication nowadays, including in the journalistic field. The prospective journalists who use a correct English grammar and an extended vocabulary in English, related to the mass media, will definitely have an advantage in a competitive, performance-based globalized world. The present paper includes a survey of the English language needs of 1 st year students in journalism at the Faculty of Letters, the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, and also refers to in-class activities suggested to the students and to some challenges encountered at the English course. The decrease of teaching semesters during the B.A. years of study should be counterbalanced by an increase of quality in the teacher’s interaction with the students and of quantity regarding the students’ individual work. The results of the survey revealed a series of learning methods, which if taken into consideration, could lead to an improvement of the relationship teacher-students, on the one hand, and of the students’ English skills, on the other hand. S

Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii “Ovidius” Constanţa nr.29 / 2018 nr 2

LEON CRINA - ROAR ENGELBERG – ROUTES TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF NORWEGIANROMANIAN CULTURAL RELATIONS. AN INTERVIEW (pag. 139-141)

Roar Engelberg (born 1964) is a Norwegian pan flautist, extremely fond of Romanian folk music. His performances have been highly appreciated both in the Northern and Low Countries, but also in Korea and the USA. In 2007 he was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit, in the rank of Knight, by the President of Romania, “as a sign of great appreciation for promoting Romanian culture and art and the image of our country in the Kingdom of Norway.” Engelberg was instructed by the Romanian pan flute player Nicolae Pîrvu and has collaborated among others with Norway’s classical guitarist Stein-Erik Olsen. He graduated from the Hilversum Conservatory in Amsterdam and since 1985 has released a large number of albums, some of them bearing Romanian names: Doina (1990), O pasăre străină (2000) and Inimă de lăutar (2007). On 21 September 2018 he was invited to perform in Bucharest, on the occasion of the extraordinary concert dedicated to the entire career of the world-famous pan flute artist Gheorghe Zamfir