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This paper aims at presenting how a Global Understanding course syllabus can be used in an EFL classroom using the Global Simulation Method. The Global Understanding course has been offered to students from different faculties at the University…

The world languages can be roughly divided into three types based on grammatical orientation, e.g. reality-oriented type (e.g. Russian, Chinese); speaker-oriented (e.g. Japanese, Serbian); hearer-oriented (e.g. English, Swedish). Differences borne…

This paper highlights some issues in the field of syntax, morphology and sociolinguistics, in the case of applying the so-called Gender Sensitive Language on the language in B&H. Furthermore, this paper contains topics about the nature and grammar of…

The study hopes to challenge the view that syntax in children‘s storybooks is custom-made to match the general abilities of young listeners and readers. Reading with an adult mind and eyes prompts the question whether at least some children‘s …

Eğitim, insanlığın var oluĢundan bu yana en bùyùk tekâmùl vasıtası olması yônùyle kadın erkek tùm fertlerin ortak yùrùtmesi gereken sosyal, kùltùrel ve bireysel sùreçlerin tùmùdùr. Eğitimin, tekâmùl sebebi olması her ferdin eĢit seviyede ona…

This study was aimed at finding out whether the method of using handphone in project-based speaking instruction could improve students speaking performance. A quasi-experimental method was used in this study. This study involved thirty eleventh grade…

Turkish is a language which is written as it is spoken. We have heard this sentence since primary school. But is it really true? Is Turkish really a language which is written as we speak? I think it is not exactly true. For example, we have one…

The aim of this study is to show that the 21st century modern TEFL classroom has to provide entertaining, visual and kinesthetic elements for the language learners. Four different TEFL games are presented in order to prove that total physical…

The market has put on the surface the need of establishing tests which will be used for assessing proficiency in English needed for different purposes, e. g. further education or employment. There are many standardized high stakes assessment tests…

The paper aims to examine the power of two major cognitive linguistic approaches to figurative language, the Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Kövecses 2002) and the Conceptual Integration Theory (Fauconnier and Turner…