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This article examines the essence of such concepts as "educational values","national values"; "common to all mankind values"; their interrelation and harmonious parity are shown. Special attention is given to the characteristic of values…

Contemporary world is complicated and we face many difficult problems that sometimes can turn into conflicts that have to be solved. As S. L. Dolan (2011) claims, these problems are: environmental pollution, human alienation, unemployment, crimes,…

When people speak, they usually accompany their speech with movements of hands and arms. It is believed that some of these hand movements (gesture) exhibit a meaning which is related to the verbal message. Although the nature of the relationship…

Why do the students of second language acquire it with different level of achievement? Which factors influence better acquisition of L2? What is the role of motivation and motivational strategies in SLA? These questions always bother the ones who…

Sooner or later, countries like Poland will have to welcome immigrants from the Middle East and successfully communicate with the immigrants from different cultural backgrounds. I would like to argue that critical cultural awareness proves to be a…

Informal education exceeds formal education both in impact and duration; therefore, it is important that educators take it into consideration in their effort to improve school performance. There are numerous activities that occur in a person's…

The paper touches upon the peculiarities of the so called “marine theme” in Romantic art as a whole, and its central image – the Flying Dutchman, in particular. The etymology of this image, as well its numerous literary interpretations make up the…

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…

The fact that teacher education programs need a systematic evaluation has been emphasised by many researchers (i.e. Richards, 1990, Wallace, 1991)). The present study aims to investigate the pre-service EFL teachers’ views on EFL teacher education…

The origin and usage of the English suffix - ING has been a captivating read for some time. Regarded as both gerund and present participle it has also posed a certain challenge for the students doing English to Serbian translation exercises. This…