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This articles deals with writing classes in ESL groups, and aims to reveal common mistakes among students in paragraph or essay writing. Approximately one hundred students were engaged in this survey and their exam paper and feedbacks from survey…

The effect of the second language on the first has been investigated in various domains and this effect can be visible in the lexicon even in the first few years. Thus, in order to understand whether a group or individuals undergo some changes in…

Designed to teach rhetorical reading and advanced academic writing, Freshman English II (ENG102) is a required course for all International University of Sarajevo (IUS) students, regardless of the program they are enrolled in. During this course,…

Writing is a pleasant and seminal task, but writing is used as multi-leveled teaching instruments, but instead difficulties, challenging and cognitively demanding. Writing requires different skills. Students can improve these skills with some…

Language makes it possible to use and understand complex language structures and cognitive mechanisms describing our reality. Scientists have made a number of attempts at understanding and using these conceptual mechanisms for various purposes.…

This article is dedicated to the application of cognitive lingua-cultural aspects in training future translators to come over the problems emerge form especially cognitive and cultural differences of different origin societies. The essences of…

Although semantic prosody, introduced to the academic community by Louw (1993), has since been the subject of some debate, a consensus on the existence and power of this linguistic phenomenon (diagnosable through corpus analysis alone) has been…

Research investigating the effects of bi-modal input [the simultaneous presentation of orthographic and aural information] on L2 listening comprehension claims: (a) that watching interlingual subtitled audiovisual (AV) material [L2 audio with L1…

Global business environment requires a new approach to needs analysis in business English courses for adult learners. With increasing demand for excellent business communicators from multinational corporations, language teachers, publishers and …

Research has been carried out for several decades on what makes some students more successful in foreign language reading than others. It was established that good readers possess greater awareness of discourse structure, meaning they are able to…