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This paper is concerned with the applicability of psycholinguistic findings made in the process of acquisition of complex syntactic structures in Spanish as a Second Language. It is argued that the observed errors which occur in impersonal structures…

Cognitive learning styles and learning strategies differ from person to person. Identifying student learning styles helps educators understand how people perceive and process information in different ways. The stable and pervasive characteristics of…

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…

In the Paradise Lost, John Milton tried to explain how evil is seductive. It is one of the reasons why he portrayed Satan with ultra human dimensions in Book I and II. And what makes Satan so heroic is not the particular situation he is in or any…

The beginner of mystic poem in Persian and Iranian literature is Sanā'ī Ghaznavi , and after him Attar Nishabouri could bring mystic poem to perfection using codes and unique symbols. This particular language culminated in Mowlavi’s poem, such a…

In this paper we explore how cognitive linguistics (CL) can facilitate the teaching and learning of phrasal verbs with UP and DOWN in English as a foreign language. We conducted a small-scale research with students whose mother tongue is Serbian and…

Teaching English as a foreign language at university level is quite a different challenge compared to teaching high school or young non-native learners. This is due to the fact that university students are expected to acquire specific grammar…

As the World turns into a “Global Village”, learning a foreign language has become an important need to people to communicate with people of other cultures. To meet this need, there are various ways such as taking the language class, visiting the…

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 article deals with the V-ing form of the verb in the position of nuclear predicative component. The author analyses the structure of the sentences with V-ing form of the verb, revealing syntactic connections of it. Keywords: nuclear…