“Hills Like White Elephants,” set in Spain, is the story of an American man and a girl sitting at an outdoor café in a Spanish train station and waiting for a fast, non-stop train coming from Barcelona to take them to Madrid. Referred to by the…
The Cenci is the embodiment of Cenci and Beatrice's struggle for power and dominance. From the outset, the reader is informed about Cenci’s making abuse of power to perform whatever he wishes; he exonerated himself from charges by using his money and…
Charles Dickens and Emily Bronte are among the greatest novelists in the 19th century in English literature. Great expectations and Wuthering Heights can respectively be regarded as their representative works. In these novels both Heathcliff’s love…
This study was aimed at finding out whether the method of using handphone in project-based speaking instruction could improve students speaking performance. A quasi-experimental method was used in this study. This study involved thirty eleventh grade…
This paper reports on a large-scale study on learner autonomy in literature circles carried out with students and English instructors at Meliksah University in Turkey. The purpose of the study is to research how students attending Meliksah University…
What is the purpose of evaluation? Do we only grade our students because they have to have a grade at the end of the term, or does evaluation reflect other aspects of our jobs? How do we remain objective while we grade out students’ performances? …
Many theoretical models of second language communicative competence (Canale 1983; Van Ek 1986; Bachman 1990; CEFR 2001) seem to include discourse competence as one of its component, albeit differently labelled or encompassing different…
The epic song (históriás ének) is the most prevalent and representative expression of the Hungarian poetry of the 16th century, and it was intended to be recited with musical accompaniment. During the second half of the century these epic songs…
Philosophy has been encountering the rules of language acquisition for long time due to the relationship between philosophy and language. Primary proof for this is link between object and subject and how the object is defined. Idealizing, defining…
Communication in a foreign language, as an inevitable component of modern human life, often makes speakers experience anxiety, which may sometimes lead to avoidance of communication. This paper explores whether the students of Italian language…
