In this paper we explore how cognitive linguistics (CL) can facilitate the teaching and learning of phrasal verbs with UP and DOWN in English as a foreign language. We conducted a small-scale research with students whose mother tongue is Serbian and…
Learning a language always means learning not only grammar and vocabulary but specific terms and phrases as well, characteristic for the target language and very different from the mother tongue of the learner. This is even more true of the language…
Online tutoring, nowadays has become widespread around the world. The interest and demand for it is growing day by day. Many students and teachers have realized efficiency and ease of learning foreign languages in this way, therefore they do not…
According to the staff of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Zenica, second year students are not easily motivated to participate in classroom discussions. Most of the time, students are encouraged to participate,…
Knowing that the progressive aspect adds the morpheme –ing to the verb's base, why is it that it needs to be further complicated by the fact that there are verbs which in their very base form already have this morpheme (bring, fling, etc.)? Why is…
As an extremely important social interaction food is not about eating only but may be viewed as discourse, because in many ways, just as language, it is socially determined and pre-conditioned. Awareness of the conceptual significance of food as…
This study exhibits how orientalist view reveals itself in The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi. Many of the subjects represented in the novel are still relevant in today’s society. One of the most important one is “Orientalism” which is…
According to Ryan (2003), Shakespeare’s comedy and romance are not less valuable than his tragedies since they also challenge the existing conditions of life, but in a different p. 28). For Frye (1965), “The mythical backbone of all literature is the…
The question of how educators can raise cultural awareness and help learners produce cultural identity in foreign language teaching has been widely debated in the education field with linguists such as Sapir and Whorf arguing that thoughts and…
The role of metaphor as a basic cognitive mechanism in the construction and retrieval of specialized knowledge has been well studied within cognitive terminological theories (Faber, 2012; Tercedor Sánchez et al, 2012; Temmerman, 2000). However, the…
