This paper focuses on the topic regarding the process of language standardization. The standardization process is an important field of sociolinguistics and it is highly researched due to the different factors affecting standard language of a…
This paper focuses on the topic regarding the process of language standardization. The standardization process is an important field of sociolinguistics and it is highly researched due to the different factors affecting standard language of a…
Have you ever considered how many different languages, religions, cultures there are in the world? Ask yourself that question or perhaps goggle it, but we are sure the answer won’t actually can’t be found that easily. The relationship between…
Motivation has been accepted by both teachers and researchers as one of the key factors that influence the rate and success of second/foreign language learning. Motivation is the force that initiates learning and later sustains the long and tedious…
Learning a language through another language is trivialto any type of language learning whether it may be the learning of a local or a foreign language. In South Africa the country’s language policy for higher education recommends the study of…
This paper deals with teaching English discourse markers to native speakers of Bosnian who learn English as a second language. We present a corpus of realistic audio and video recordings of every-day Bosnian and British English conversation and argue…
Legal discourse is very much tainted by political, ideological, historical, cultural characteristics, much more so than the language of mathematics or technology. Independently of any culturally, historically and linguistically determined variation,…
Vocabulary research has followed a different path in English and in Spanish applied linguistics. Spanish applied linguistics has paid more attention to available lexicons of speakers than to word frequency. The measure of lexical availability…
This research has two main purposes: 1. to distinguish structural types of synonymic groups; 2. to verify the headwords of synonymic groups as a linguistic or psycholinguistic concept. Typically headword has: 1) common semantic elements, 2)…
Listening in another language is a hard job so English teachers have to use various strategies to make it easier and to be very careful in choosing the material for listening in order to motivate their students and keep their attention. Most of the…
