This paper aims to demonstrate how writers and speakers actively engage readers and listeners within the argumentation through the use of engagement markers as a metadiscourse category. More precisely, it sets out to explore the function and use of…
Medical records, literature and encyclopedias are the most specific materials which the reader meets with. This literature, full of technical terminology, jargon and abbreviations, mostly in English language, often presents an insurmountable barrier…
Writing as a productive skill is very important integral part in the language learning process. However, writing is not considered as an easy skill by the students and it is certainly considered a difficult skill to teach by many ESL teachers.…
Gerard Manley Hopkins is a Victorian poet who became popular in the twentieth century, after the posthumous publication of his poems in 1918. He was born into an Anglo-Catholic family with artistic leanings, but during his university days he joined…
In his epoch-making article entitled “The significance of learners’ errors”, Corder (1967) argues that the analysis of errors is central to investigating the learners’ acquisition process. One of his key points addresses the idea that…
The main purpose of this study is to find out if there is difference between Turkish and foreign students studying in the same program in terms of their anxiety level regarding their speaking skill. A total of 35 students studying at Eskişehir…
The knowledge concerning personality traits of foreign language teachers for young learners which contribute positively to teaching process is still insufficient. The paper will present the investigation that involves the collection of experts’…
The paper will focus on teaching and learning materials used in early English education. The aim is to identify the most important factors for the evaluation of ELT materials and find answers to two questions: What are the challenges in evaluation…
From January 2013 to May 2013, I developed and presented a series of workshops on effective policy debate for young Albanian political leaders. These U.S Embassy- sponsored workshops consisted of over forty-two hours of graduate level instruction…
This paper deals with two separate but related subjects: linguistic taboos and linguistic stigmatization illustrated through French and Bosnian languages and slangs (Paris versus Sarajevo). Through these two universal categories, we will try to…
