This research paper aims to show the importance of the syllabus design and materials development in English for Specific Purposes for students at the Faculty of Public Administration and Political Sciences at South East European University, Republic…
Difficulties in learning a second language (L2) may arise when a first language (L1) speaker attempts to directly transfer a syntactic pattern from L1 into L2. Since there is a very high overlap in verb valency between Croatian and Russian, the…
Many people would argue that metaphor is a characteristic of extraordinary rather than ordinary speech. However, Lakoff and Johnson (2003: 8) strongly disagree with that claiming that our conceptual system is fundamentally metaphorical in its nature.…
For about 265 years in Edo there was a period of relative peace. The four successors of Ieyasu (15431616), the first Tokugawa shōgun, through the bakufu, ruled the country organized in a rigid social system that saw society divided into four classes:…
Informal education exceeds formal education both in impact and duration; therefore, it is important that educators take it into consideration in their effort to improve school performance. There are numerous activities that occur in a person's…
The aim of this study was to apply a comparative method to the analysis of the acquisition of subject person marking in two typological different languages, Croatian and Yucatec Maya. Since no equivalent target entities have been identified in these…
Author:Blaha Pfeiler, Barbara
Hržica, Gordana
Palmović, Marijan
Kovačević, Melita
Feedback in second language writing is an important issue in learning and teaching practices. However, whether or not to use feedback in instruction is not the only criteria for success. Feedback focus, form, and other characteristics of feedback are…
Although many studies have been conducted on second language acquisition and bilingual education, there is a lack of research-based information on developing foreign language identity, especially regarding the frequency of language use and its…
The present study is an attempt to increase the amount of reading time of twenty two intermediate students in class. Six students at a preparatory school of Suleyman Sah University, Istanbul individually participated in a structured interview which…
This research has two main purposes: 1. to distinguish structural types of synonymic groups; 2. to verify the headwords of synonymic groups as a linguistic or psycholinguistic concept. Typically headword has: 1) common semantic elements, 2)…
