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Sooner or later, countries like Poland will have to welcome immigrants from the Middle East and successfully communicate with the immigrants from different cultural backgrounds. I would like to argue that critical cultural awareness proves to be a…

Why do the students of second language acquire it with different level of achievement? Which factors influence better acquisition of L2? What is the role of motivation and motivational strategies in SLA? These questions always bother the ones who…

When people speak, they usually accompany their speech with movements of hands and arms. It is believed that some of these hand movements (gesture) exhibit a meaning which is related to the verbal message. Although the nature of the relationship…

Contemporary world is complicated and we face many difficult problems that sometimes can turn into conflicts that have to be solved. As S. L. Dolan (2011) claims, these problems are: environmental pollution, human alienation, unemployment, crimes,…

This article examines the essence of such concepts as "educational values","national values"; "common to all mankind values"; their interrelation and harmonious parity are shown. Special attention is given to the characteristic of values…

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…

Relationships with others, in this modern globalized world, command respective challenges in communication and bring closely everyone into connection with people of other languages and cultures. The latter make people require exchanging cognitive…

Over the past a few decades, we have started to experience the linguistic impacts of the latest communication technology which was, most specifically, the Internet and with its different domains. The Internet has become a main free resource which is…

Linguistic landscaping is a pioneering subfield of sociolinguistics exploring language in its written form in urban contexts. Since 1997 (Laundry and Bourhis, 1997), as a swiftly expanding research area worldwide, it has proved to be a relevant…

Despite the fact that phrasal verbs are used in everyday English, foreign learners avoid learning and using them for their complexity and impossibility to understand the meaning of a phrasal verb from its separate parts (a verb itself and a particle…