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The paper presents an overview of the aspect of story in the narrative of novels written by Paul Auster, a contemporary American writer. Starting from the theoretical basis set by Shlomith RimmonKenan in her study Narrative Fiction: Contemporary…

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…

Although nobody would deny that academic criticism is an inherent feature of academic communication, most of the existing studies assume that due to the nature of the development of science, collaborative rhetoric is intrinsic to academic discourse…

Diachronic study of a language demonstrates how the language changes significantly over a period of time and neologisms are one of the greatest indicators of language transformation. Therefore, the field of neologisms which came to existence in the…

The aim of this study was to contribute to advancement of foreign language teaching and to direct attention to exceptional children as a group of students very often neglected in the elementary and highschool educational system in Herzegovina-Neretva…

This paper aimed to explore in the light of author’s experience how communicative approach improves young learner’s classroom participation, social interaction,understanding and use of prepositions. Communicative approach focuses on authentic and…

There have been many researchers (Holmes, Brown and Levinson, Olshtain, Blum-Kulka, House, Kasper) who have devoted themselves to the analysis of one of the basic units of human linguistic communication - the act of apologizing. An apology, as argued…

This article is based on empirical investigation of intrasentential antonym functions in Serbian written discourse, which suggests that phrasal contexts in which antonyms co-occur are relatively stable and that at least some of the most frequent…

It is the general opinion that translation of literary works should be transparent and in the spirit of the original. The same applies for translation of personal names as one of particularities of a literary work. In addition to identifying…

The main purpose of this study is to find out if there is difference between Turkish and foreign students studying in the same program in terms of their anxiety level regarding their speaking skill. A total of 35 students studying at Eskişehir…