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The beginner of mystic poem in Persian and Iranian literature is Sanā'ī Ghaznavi , and after him Attar Nishabouri could bring mystic poem to perfection using codes and unique symbols. This particular language culminated in Mowlavi’s poem, such a…

In the Paradise Lost, John Milton tried to explain how evil is seductive. It is one of the reasons why he portrayed Satan with ultra human dimensions in Book I and II. And what makes Satan so heroic is not the particular situation he is in or any…

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…

Cognitive learning styles and learning strategies differ from person to person. Identifying student learning styles helps educators understand how people perceive and process information in different ways. The stable and pervasive characteristics of…

This paper is concerned with the applicability of psycholinguistic findings made in the process of acquisition of complex syntactic structures in Spanish as a Second Language. It is argued that the observed errors which occur in impersonal structures…

As times change and new concepts become part of our reality, Arabic, just like any other language, is facing the challenge of building new lexical units into its vocabulary. However, its word formation system, relying heavily on derivation based on…

“Every language is a temple in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Language is a means of communication between people. It is inextricably bound to the life and development of people who use it. It is a human…

This paper aims to explore the possible application of cognitive semantics in the process of Business English idioms teaching and learning. The theoretical assumptions of this study are based on the cognitivist view that idioms are, to a certain…

The thrust of the current study was to investigate the relationship among EFL learners' creativity (CR), emotional intelligence (EI), and self-efficacy (SE). To this end, a group of 120 male and female learners, between the ages of 19 and 35 studying…

Following the earlier works of Booij (1985) and Nespor & Vogel (1986) I provide further evidence that English compounds are made up of prosodic words. The length of the first components must be preserved because they are identical to basic lexical…