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In this presentation, I introduce approaches and materials that I have developed with university students studying English as a foreign language in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, to focus on cultural diversity and regional identity. Okinawa is the…

With the arrival of English and Dutch ships, European culture began to flow in Japan from the first years of the 17th century through other means respect to those already established by the Iberian mercantilism and the Catholic missionarism. Since…

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a multiethnic and multicultural community which has traditionally displayed deep sensitivity to the need for appreciation, promotion, learning, connecting, and preservation of the different cultures. The aim of the paper…

In an increasingly multi-territorialized and interdependent world, where technology plays an important role through many mass media services, people are getting more in touch with one another than ever before. This provides the possibility to…

One on the main objectives of Croatian elementary school language teaching is to develop „respect towards the language of the Croatian people, its literature and culture“. (Elementary school curriculum, 2006, 25). It originates the tasks of…

This paper discuses the use of the Critical Discourse Analysis approach in the study of newspaper articles. Analysis of newspaper texts cannot be limited to linguistic analysis of texts; rather, it calls for a wider perspective, which includes both…

The following article is dedicated to the question of thematic grouping of banking/financial terms, which take a considerable place in the lexical structure of the Uzbek language. The paper presents the criteria for the distribution of terms…

The Internet of today offers almost unlimited options and tools for the creation of various online teaching materials that can be used for all the needs of an ESP course, both as main and as extracurricular (additional) materials. After a brief…

The choice of our subject was guided by our own desire to know how to motivate students in FLE in order to give them a taste of self-effort and success. Based on our interest in student motivation, we wanted to think about the available ways to…

Old methodology did not pay a lot of attention to the students' needs, interests and value orientation. The reason for that was the fact that the teaching strategies considered a teacher-centred methodology. Nowadays, it is becoming more and more…