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Zero Semantic Extension of the Persian Origin Words in the Contemporary Bosnian Language
The Bosnian language lexis is characterised by a number of words of eastern origin, i.e. the words from Turkish, Arabic or Persian have a prominent place. The Bosnian language vocabulary contains a number of the Persian origin words that were…
Prospective English language teachers’ perceptions towards a new paradigm in foreign language education: Flipped classroom model
A current pedagogic approach is ‘‘Flipped classroom model’ which depends on the use of asynchronous video lectures and practice problems as homework at home, and active, group-based problem solving activities in the classroom. As a new paradigm in…
Writing the Proper Story: The Importance of Personal Experience and Inadequacy of Fiction in Alice Munro’s Story “The Ottawa Valley”
The tendency among contemporary women writers to look inside themselves for material for fiction is particularly evident in the work of Alice Munro. Munro’s practice of utilizing personal experience in her stories is central to her work, and is…
Slovene as the second/foreign language in Slovene pre-school institutions
Slovenia has long been a place for immigration; with the accession into the European Union it has become even more interesting for different groups of immigrants from European and non-European countries. According to the Statistical Office of the…
Anthroponyms of the fairy tale Kako je Potjeh tražio istinu by Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic and aspects of their translation in target language texts
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…
Using Games in TEFL - A Case Study of “Meša Selimović” Elementary School in Sarajevo
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…
The importance of being critical – Polish EFL teachers' beliefs and practices
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…
Cognitive Mechanisms of Word-formation Process: Interrelation of Conceptual and Verbal Structures
This article deals with the peculiarities of mechanisms providing formation of semantics of compound words from the perspective of the cognitive approach. More to the point, it is a question of conceptual derivation, where meaning formation of…
Netspeak: Linguistic Properties and Aspects of Online Communication in Postponed Time
In the context of English as a global language, and Netspeak as a new electronic medium of communication, the present paper examines the linguistic properties and distinctive features of online communication in postponed time, bearing in mind that…
On conceptual nature of antonymy: Evidence from corpus-based investigations
This paper provides an overview of corpus investigations in studying antonymy with an aim to argue in favour of the conceptual approach to antonymy. Antonymy is considered to play an important role in organizing languages’ vocabularies. However,…