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The main focus of this paper is a comparison of cultural perceptions and motivation in metaphoric constructions reflected through phraseology used in American English and Serbian languages. Phraseology used in these languages is seen as collective…

The purpose of this paper is to highlight how the dreaminess occurs in the poetry of Petre Stoica, Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine. The method of diacronics followed by the symbolic one, have been used in the scientific stage of the work.…

Dyslexia is a learning disability that can significantly affect both the learning process of a foreign language and competences in a foreign language. Although dyslexia is highly individualized, dyslexic people usually face problems with sound…

Daughter of Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, who is a leading figure during Tanzimat era, Fatma Aliye Hanim is regarded as one of the pioneers of Ottoman Woman Movement. As an intellectual Ottoman woman, she constantly wrote about the problems of women in her…

Within the framework of a research study developed at the University of Aveiro, a group of educational partners representing local institutions was gathered. The aim was to conceptualize, implement and evaluate a collaborative research project on …

Intending to talk about a study that aimed at studying the effect of Collaborative Strategic Reading(CSR) on EFL students’ reading performance. CSR is a teaching technique that was originally developed by Klingner and Vaughn and which aims at…

Written essays are a common feature of standardized tests at many levels of study. However, little is known about whether the use of different media in writing the essays may affect students’ writing performance. Studies reported the different…

As a requirement of the rapid globalization and the increase in intercultural communication in many parts of our lives, English has gained a new status as the language of international communication. Following the change in the role of English,…

Proverbs are formulaic expressions that mirror the culture of a language (Hirsch et al. 2002) and it is said that every native speaker possesses ‘proverb competence’ (De Caro, 1978) which allows them to comprehend and employ those expressions where…

Vocabulary acquisition was for long considered to be the easiest aspect of foreign language acquisition for which no particular formal instruction was necessary. However, due to the emergence and development of the communicative method and Krashen’s…