Welcome to the Homepage of SDAŠ.

 

SDAŠ stands for Slovensko društvo za angleške študije, or the Slovene Association for the Study of English (SASE). The association was founded in March 1993 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with the purpose of promoting the study and teaching of the English language, literatures in English and cultures of English-speaking peoples by means of communication and exchange with colleagues at home and throughout Europe. The members of SDAŠ are scholars involved in teaching and research at faculties and colleges of higher education in Slovenia. The association, which also welcomes post-graduate students, currently has 64 members.

 

Since its foundation, SDAŠ has been a member of ESSE, the European Society for the Study of English. The members of SDAŠ, who are automatically members of ESSE, are thus entitled to receive The European English Messenger, ESSE's biannual bulletin, as well as to participate in ESSE's major conferences organized every two years.

 

The main objective of the Association is to advance the exchange of knowledge and skills on the national, as well as on the international level. With this in mind, SDAŠ decided to organize an international conference. Thus, the First International Conference of SDAŠ, entitled English Language and Literature Studies in the Context of European Language Diversity (Angleške jezikovne in literarne študije v jezikovno raznoliki Evropi), was held in Portorož from 6 – 9 May 2004.

 

At the SDAŠ 2002 General Assembly, the decision was made to launch a new journal. Thus far three volumes of ELOPE (English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries) have been published and the journal has been included in the MLA directory of periodicals.

 

Comments and suggestions on the future activities of SDAŠ are always warmly welcome. Send them either to Smiljana Komar or Victor Kennedy.

 

If you are interested in becoming a member of SDAŠ and consequently ESSE, I cordially invite you  to join us. Please, write to our treasurer, Urška Sešek.

 

Smiljana Komar, Chair

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 Dobrodošli na spletnih straneh Slovenskega društva za angleške študije (SDAŠ).

 

Društvo je bilo ustanovljeno marca 1993 v Ljubljani. Prek sodelovanja s podobnimi organizacijami in posamezniki iz Slovenije in tujine želi razvijati študij, raziskovanje in poučevanje jezika, književnosti in kultur angleško govorečih narodov. Trenutno ima SDAŠ 64 članov; članstvo sestavljajo profesorji, lektorji in asistenti, ki opravljajo pedagoško in raziskovalno delo na slovenskih fakultetah in visokih šolah. V društvu so dobrodošli tudi podiplomski študenti.

 

Od ustanovitve je SDAŠ del mednarodne organizacije ESSE (European Society for the Study of English, slo. Evropsko društvo za angleške študije; gl. logotip levo). Člani slovenskega društva so tako hkrati člani mednarodne organizacije, prejemajo revijo te organizacije (The European English Messenger) in sodelujejo na njenih mednarodnih konferencah.

 

Glavni namen društva je razvijati izmenjavo znanja na državni in mednarodni ravni. Zato je SDAŠ organiziral  svojo prvo mednarodno konferenco z naslovom Angleške jezikovne in literarne študije v jezikovno raznoliki Evropi (ang. English Language and Literature Studies in the Context of European Language Diversity), ki je potekala je od 6. do 9. maja 2004 v Portorožu.

 

Društvo je pričelo objavljati tudi znanstveno publikacijo o angleških študijah s področja jezika, poučevanja, književnosti in prevajanja z naslovom ELOPE (English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries). Do sedaj so izšle tri številke, revija pa je tudi uvrščena na seznam publikacij MLA.

 

Vaša vprašanja, mnenja in predloge bosta z veseljem sprejela Smiljana Komar in Victor Kennedy. Če pa bi se radi včlanili v društvo, se obrnite na Urško Sešek.

 

Smiljana Komar, predsednica društva