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The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with better insight of the vernacular L variety of language in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper will try to give some key points on the diglossia and how the diglossic community functions in the…

Language is one of the most important features of our lives; it is the one thing that connects us not just in a social way but also through decades and even generations. It is probably the only one thing that almost every human being has, whether he…

А number of socio-cultural factors such as distance, common ground, social status of the ironist and his/her interlocutor, as well as “the victim” of irony, have a very significant impact on the usage of verbal irony. This study focuses on various…

In the learning process for all human beings, play takes a place as universal, innate, and a lifelong social behaviour of having crucial importance (Pramling & Carlsson, 2008). Creative drama is an efficient way to hearten students “experience”…

As new technologies advance language teachers are gaining more and more new tools to use in their work and to improve, upgrade and expand their teaching methods. Within a TEMPUS project, the Faculty of Philology in Banja Luka recently obtained a…

The aim of this study was to examine the use of educational games in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) to young learners. The research was conducted in “Meša Selimović” elementary school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The…

It is a general belief that students need to receive substantial input of authentic materials in FLT. The combination of verbal information, along with full visual experience such as it can be seen in a film, has been found most appealing. Not only…

The aim of this paper was to emphasize the use of literature in ESL/EFL contexts and investigate what the students considered literature in general and in English classes. To be specific, the use of short stories was explained and investigated…

This study investigates the types of oral errors and the corrective feedback moves for these errors in a sample of Turkish EFL context. The distribution of error types and the use of corrective feedback for each error type were examined. 12 hours…

Emerging different English accent varieties as a result of the recognition of English as a lingua franca all around the world has led many researchers in different contexts to explore the attitudes of the students towards their pronunciation. To…