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As new technologies advance language teachers are gaining more and more new tools to use in their work and to improve, upgrade and expand their teaching methods. Within a TEMPUS project, the Faculty of Philology in Banja Luka recently obtained a…

In the learning process for all human beings, play takes a place as universal, innate, and a lifelong social behaviour of having crucial importance (Pramling & Carlsson, 2008). Creative drama is an efficient way to hearten students “experience”…

А number of socio-cultural factors such as distance, common ground, social status of the ironist and his/her interlocutor, as well as “the victim” of irony, have a very significant impact on the usage of verbal irony. This study focuses on various…

Language is one of the most important features of our lives; it is the one thing that connects us not just in a social way but also through decades and even generations. It is probably the only one thing that almost every human being has, whether he…

The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with better insight of the vernacular L variety of language in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper will try to give some key points on the diglossia and how the diglossic community functions in the…

Bosnian language has long been, and continues to be, a sensitive question to discuss about. This paper will present the language history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, introduce some linguistic features such as high and low variety of Bosnian language,…

Nowadays English text books include so many visuals in them and it is an unquestionable fact that visuals are becoming an indispensible part of the language teaching process as they provide both the teachers and the learners with some…

An increasing number of children around the world, including Bosnian children, are being educated in a second language (L2). This L2 learning in primary school settings raises interesting questions about developing L2 vocabulary. Investigating the…

This talk presents ten proven and very useful activities for helping learners increase their vocabulary knowledge. In addition, reasons are given why these techniques were chosen to be in the top ten. These reasons relate to the five most important…

This study aims to provide an understanding towards the question “Who is English Language Teacher?” which may sound very simple to answer when it is heard for the first time, but in reality it is NOT so simple. “Education” covering many concepts…