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Analyses of various business languages show a great presence of Anglicisms, which can be ascribed to companies’ desires to be competitive on the global market. In line with current globalization trends, the impact of English as a source language on…

In this paper we propose the use of Agent-Based Models (ABM) (Gilbert 2008) to study the development of historical natural languages starting from a universal grammar according to Chomsky’s "Theory of the principles and parameters" (Chomsky 1995) . …

Language is the differentia specifica of human species. Every human being acquires it regardless of race, sex or social status. Following the cognitive revolution of 1950s, Noam Chomsky’s theory of Universal Grammar (UG) became the foundation for the…

This paper presents the types of communication strategies of science rhetorique in Foreign Language Learning (FLL). The purpose is to facilitate learners’ communicative competence in English. The concept ‘communicative competence’ covers four main…

Why do some English grammar issues pose problems to otherwise fully competent and fluent students in Croatia? From our experience, reported speech and conditional sentences rank high on the list of such issues. The aim of this paper is to explore…

So far a number of articles have dealt with the American dream and how it is developed in Arthur Miller‘s plays, especially in The Death of a Salesman. However, not enough attention has been paid to the tragedy and the human tragedy in these plays.…

Pronunciation teaching has its unique place in the curricula of most of the European countries though it has been neglected in Turkey so far. Mispronunciation of some core sounds is among the fundamental problems in the speech of both nonnative…

This presentation accounts for the syntax of the prenominal determiner-like free morpheme cel in Romanian, which introduces definite DPs. Importantly, the prototypical definite article in Romanian is a suffix that attaches to prenominal adjectives…

Burnout in any field is a crucial issue which should be taken into consideration seriously. Teacher burnout which is a type of burnout is dealt with its all facets in this paper. More specifically, the English instructors (N=27) working in a state…

A special attention to speech acts is required when teaching and learning foreign language aiming to achieve more natural communication in a foreign language. We need to take care not just about language communication, but about social communication…