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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 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…

The purpose of this study is to explore the noun-derived adpositions in Persian language and other living Iranian Languages in the light of the relevant literature. To accomplish that, first the existing works that deal this type of…

Nearly four decades have passed since the publication of Janet Byron’s contributions in the 1970s concerning official language policy and planning (LPP) efforts for Unified Literary Albanian (i.e., Literary Albanian or more recently Standard…

This study aimed at examining the preferred vocabulary learning strategies of Turkish EFL learners and their beliefs about vocabulary learning. For this purpose, a descriptive study was carried out among 45 preparatory school students at Kastamonu…

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…

It is the general opinion that translation of literary works should be transparent and in the spirit of the original. The same applies for translation of personal names as one of particularities of a literary work. In addition to identifying…

This article is based on empirical investigation of intrasentential antonym functions in Serbian written discourse, which suggests that phrasal contexts in which antonyms co-occur are relatively stable and that at least some of the most frequent…

There have been many researchers (Holmes, Brown and Levinson, Olshtain, Blum-Kulka, House, Kasper) who have devoted themselves to the analysis of one of the basic units of human linguistic communication - the act of apologizing. An apology, as argued…

This paper aimed to explore in the light of author’s experience how communicative approach improves young learner’s classroom participation, social interaction,understanding and use of prepositions. Communicative approach focuses on authentic and…