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The study’s unit of analysis is the native speakers of Turkish who has learnt English as a second language and either Italian or French as a third language. The aim of this study is to investigate the possible reverse transfer effects from the…

The aim of the paper is to point out the semantic aspects of some selected turcisms used in the linguistic system of contemporary Slovene. From a lessical corpus of loanwords of turkish origin, as classified in the two etymological dictionaries of…

This paper proposes to present an ongoing research project aiming at diagnosing the reciprocal language and cultural images of Portuguese learners of Turkish and Turkish learners of Portuguese as foreign languages in the Higher Education context.…

The aim of this research was to determine the reasons pro and against using games in an EFL classroom, as well as to discover possible obstacles teachers encounter when applying these activities. The study was performed on both teachers and…

Multimodality in the domain of linguistic and literary research and teaching emerged imperceptibly and laid the groundwork for an organic and systemic analysis of language-based phenomena. In this sense, literary theory is an extension of…

The prominent Azerbaijani poet Rasul Rza (real name Rasul Ibrahim oglu Rzayev, 1910–1981 ), who wrote his epics and poems in free measure played particular role in development of poetic conscience of Azerbaijani literature. In modern Azerbaijani …

Pragmatic fluency forms crucial part of a language user‘s competence. Norms of politeness, communicative styles, scripts and preferences differ between languages and cultures in describable ways, FL realizations of pragmatic functions are often…

In language teaching, culture becomes the very core of language teaching. The teaching of culture has been mostly based on topics clearly identified in curricula and, further on, in the textbooks. Cultural awareness as such arises out of the language…

This presentation introduces a CALL Multilingual Visual Dictionary (MLVD) CALL project which is being developed at Okinawa University, and is funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEXT). The project began in 2005…