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…
Teaching English as a foreign language at university level is quite a different challenge compared to teaching high school or young non-native learners. This is due to the fact that university students are expected to acquire specific grammar…
Communication in a foreign language, as an inevitable component of modern human life, often makes speakers experience anxiety, which may sometimes lead to avoidance of communication. This paper explores whether the students of Italian language…
DO ORIGINS MATTER? Can awareness of these serve in the English-learning process? Modern English has evolved through the last 1500 years as a hybrid language (Crystal, D. 2004). The Angles the Saxons and the Danes all made important…
Among teacher’s responsibilities in the classroom besides delivering quality teaching, treating all the students equally, is giving the learners the space to become creative, to enhance their problemsolving skills and give them the opportunity to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
