The aim of this paper was to emphasize the use of literature in ESL/EFL contexts and investigate what the students considered literature in general and in English classes. To be specific, the use of short stories was explained and investigated…
Applying the appropriate theoretical approaches to the teaching strategies has been of great importance in the last two decades. Putting a theory into practice seems not to be so easy although teacher educators have frequently encouraged teachers to…
Having been derived from the oral literature, proverbs are short, rhythmic and popular sentences which contain wisdom, truth, moral and traditional views in a fixed and metaphoric form. Every nation’s oral literature has a rich collection of proverbs…
Using film and television shows as a language teaching tool has become a popular choice among language teachers, especially with English language. This paper attempts to explain how film and television is beneficial in the language learning process…
The study was conducted to investigate why the secondary students in Misurata were unable to communicate in English orally, fluently, in spite of studying it as a general subject during their school education.The traditional teacher-fronted method…
Modern technology plays an important role in the life of a young language learner and therefore it should be regularly used in the process of language teaching. There are many arguments in favour of using technology and there are some arguments that…
This paper presents three small corpora of kinship terms borrowed into three languages: English, Croatian and Bosnian. In all three cases, kinship terms were borrowed from the languages of the respective conquerors. The English language borrowed…
The cognitive abilities explained by cognitive science and cognitive semantics can inform us concerning the use of metaphors in science. The thesis is that abstract ideas rest on experiences of the concrete world. In this paper I will explain the use…
The individual as a part of the society owns a very important element so that he can become part of it: the verbal communication. If we focus here we will see that the language user is the past, the present and the future of language itself. From one…
This paper analyzes the acquisition and application of possessive pronouns in contemporary Serbian language. When analyzing the current situation in standard Serbian, some characteristics that differ from the official language norm are noticeable.…
