Informal education exceeds formal education both in impact and duration; therefore, it is important that educators take it into consideration in their effort to improve school performance. There are numerous activities that occur in a person's…
For about 265 years in Edo there was a period of relative peace. The four successors of Ieyasu (15431616), the first Tokugawa shōgun, through the bakufu, ruled the country organized in a rigid social system that saw society divided into four classes:…
Many people would argue that metaphor is a characteristic of extraordinary rather than ordinary speech. However, Lakoff and Johnson (2003: 8) strongly disagree with that claiming that our conceptual system is fundamentally metaphorical in its nature.…
Difficulties in learning a second language (L2) may arise when a first language (L1) speaker attempts to directly transfer a syntactic pattern from L1 into L2. Since there is a very high overlap in verb valency between Croatian and Russian, the…
This research paper aims to show the importance of the syllabus design and materials development in English for Specific Purposes for students at the Faculty of Public Administration and Political Sciences at South East European University, Republic…
Newspaper is defined by the dictionary of Turkish Language Institution as “a publication which provides information on subjects such as politics, economy, culture and others, and which is published daily or for certain amount of periods.” However,…
Since the 90s made in Italy was a stron brand all over the world. Driving Ferrari, wearing Gucci, Armani, dressing up with Damiani's jewelry, putting on Paciotti's shoes, eating parmigiano and Barilla's pasta were a status symbol not only in Italy,…
Although there are no formal differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses in Arabic, these two types of Arabic relative clauses function in significantly different ways. Restrictive relative clauses, aiming to delimit the…
New materials have continuously been added to the assessment instruments in ELT day by day. The question of whether writing assessment in ELT can be done via E-Rater® was first addressed in 1996, and this system, which is commonly called “Automated…
Listening in another language is a hard job so English teachers have to use various strategies to make it easier and to be very careful in choosing the material for listening in order to motivate their students and keep their attention. Most of the…
