The aim of this study was to apply a comparative method to the analysis of the acquisition of subject person marking in two typological different languages, Croatian and Yucatec Maya. Since no equivalent target entities have been identified in these…
Author:Blaha Pfeiler, Barbara
Hržica, Gordana
Palmović, Marijan
Kovačević, Melita
In this talk I will argue that our notion of linguistic competence needs to be revisited. Static depictions of the grammar of the target language are not suitable for informing research and language teaching. The fact is that language is dynamic, a…
The culture plays a huge role in society formation. Because it includes analysing life style of communities, their traditions, beliefs, language and art. Language learning or teaching activities in connection with the culture helps to understand the…
This study is conducted in order to investigate the generic awareness of reading strategy use of students and state the types of reading strategies used by them while performing a reading task. The students responded to a 45-item scale that…
Word formation is a process of creating new words with some processes such as derivation, abbreviation, acronym, compounding, generified words, borrowing, and blending. In our always changing world it becomes a need for the languages to create new…
The question of how educators can raise cultural awareness and help learners produce cultural identity in foreign language teaching has been widely debated in the education field with linguists such as Sapir and Whorf arguing that thoughts and…
The fast way of life necessarily has repercussions on all aspects of life, including the language, and then, indirectly, the letter. It is understandable that the authors of various texts in print media are trying to save time and space. …
Author:Ramadanović, Ermina
Kovačević, Barbara
Jozić, Željko
The variability of foreign language teaching and policies within the nation state cause quantitive accumulation to turn into a qualitative explosion. We can say that, extremely dominant demands regarding foreign language teaching not only cause an”…
In studies of writing, linguistic proficiency has been assumed to play an important factor contributing to writing proficiency (Raimes, 1987; Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1987; Hayes 1996). Additional factors such as “cognitive” processes (i.e. planning…
Britain is like other multicultural countries such as USA, Canada, France, Malaysia, etc. one of the multicultural countries in the world. Britain’s overall ethnic population is nearly %10 percent and from that percentage British Asians constitute…
