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Two important issues regarding the selection and preparation of TV news for language learning are: the content of the news and the linguistic difficulty. Content is described as being specialized or universal. Universal contexts are likely to be…

World is full of people, group, nations, who think, feel and act differently. However, all these people in global world have to cooperate in order to solve global warming, poverty, terrorism, swaine or avian flu, AIDS, pollution, extintion of…

Yerelden evrensele uzanan yolda, tùm insanlığa mal olmuĢ mizah karakterimiz Nasreddin Hoca, bugùn sadece Anadolu‘da değil, tùm dùnyada tanınır ve fıkraları dilden dile anlatılır olmuĢtur. Biz, bu bildirimizde, Bosna Hersek‘te fıkraları anlatılan ve…

As is well-known the concept of the Absurd is an off-shoot of Existentialism which was born in the 19th century and reached almost global acceptability in the early 20th century thanks to the works of Kafka, Camus, Sartre and the Absurd playwrights…

Eliot's theosophical poetry supports the idea that God's willingness to relate to the world gives his creatures the possibility of personal knowledge of him, although this can be acquired only through difficult and serenuous spiritual exercises. …

This paper is aimed to discuss corrective feedback in oral reading skills. It mainly focuses on the role of transitions and conjunctions in texts and questions the conditions of efficacy of corrective feedback for the development of reading skill…

This paper reports on a study that investigated beliefs about second foreign language learning of Turkish EFL learners, compared their beliefs about learning German, Italian and French as a second foreign language and explored within-group…

According to the legend, the Schola salernitana was born by the casual meeting of four physicians, symbolic characters, whose dynamics and values aim to underline the confluence (in the civitas Hippocratica, cosmopolitan Mediterranean port, ‗open‘…

This study attempted to investigate the effect of the teacher‘s using currents issues of interest in the society in English classes on the students‘ achievement of the vocabulary in reading comprehension. It was hypothesized that using awareness of…

Why do some English grammar issues pose problems to otherwise fully competent and fluent students in Croatia? From our experience, reported speech and conditional sentences rank high on the list of such issues. The aim of this paper is to explore…