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Modern teaching methods for foreign language insist mostly on communicative skills and this is what the teacher pays the most attention to. Also, the faculties’ rules insist on written form of the exams. The problem is: how to exam the communicative…

Question of overcoming the cultural shock and assuming the position in relation to the new culture is very important, not only for a great number of modern societies coloured by multicultural elements and need to most adequately answer the demands…

Having in mind that average person utters around 15 000 words a day we must treat our speaking skill as the most significant cognitive activity which encapsulates the quality of pronunciation, grammar (accuracy), lexical power (expression diversity),…

The paper aims to examine the power of two major cognitive linguistic approaches to figurative language, the Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Kövecses 2002) and the Conceptual Integration Theory (Fauconnier and Turner…

The market has put on the surface the need of establishing tests which will be used for assessing proficiency in English needed for different purposes, e. g. further education or employment. There are many standardized high stakes assessment tests…

The aim of this study is to show that the 21st century modern TEFL classroom has to provide entertaining, visual and kinesthetic elements for the language learners. Four different TEFL games are presented in order to prove that total physical…

Turkish is a language which is written as it is spoken. We have heard this sentence since primary school. But is it really true? Is Turkish really a language which is written as we speak? I think it is not exactly true. For example, we have one…

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…

Eğitim, insanlığın var oluĢundan bu yana en bùyùk tekâmùl vasıtası olması yônùyle kadın erkek tùm fertlerin ortak yùrùtmesi gereken sosyal, kùltùrel ve bireysel sùreçlerin tùmùdùr. Eğitimin, tekâmùl sebebi olması her ferdin eĢit seviyede ona…

The study hopes to challenge the view that syntax in children‘s storybooks is custom-made to match the general abilities of young listeners and readers. Reading with an adult mind and eyes prompts the question whether at least some children‘s …