The construction of meaning in humor research falls within the cognitive group of operations present in everyday human life and occurring at a lightning speed invisible to the conscious human mind. The topic of this paper is, hereby,…
Teaching grammar of a foreign language has always been a matter of controversy. One of the most prominent, yet unsettled issue is whether grammar should be taught explicitly or implicitly. To that end, the study aims to investigate relation between…
Relationships with others, in this modern globalized world, command respective challenges in communication and bring closely everyone into connection with people of other languages and cultures. The latter make people require exchanging cognitive…
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…
A modal verb is a type of auxiliary verb that is used to indicate modality. The modal auxiliary verbs express a variety of moods or attitudes of the speaker towards the meaning expressed by the main or lexical verb in a clause. Many modal verbs have…
Linguistic homogeneity in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs can be a challenge to curriculum design and implementation. In university EAP programs where the majority of students share an L1 with classmates, instructors sometimes struggle…
Learning a foreign language has always been rather demanding job. Learning our mother tongue, we have already acquired certain patterns of behavior that language units exhibit and when learning a new language we first notice the differences in these…
Whether you have been teaching for 20 years or you have just started your teaching career, there’s always a possibility you will have a student in your classroom with disruptive behavior. This behavior can go beyond the limits of what is considered…
In this paper certain lexical fields of colour naming lexemes from Tennyson’s poem The Lady of Shalott and their translational equivalents in Serbian are chosen in order to determine the internal system of mutual references concerning the…
According to the language transfer theory, it is assumed that the learner’s native language (NL) will positively or negatively affect his/her learning a foreign language (FL) in second language acquisition (SLA). Therefore, when there are differences…
