The purpose of this study is to examine the role of culture in language teaching and the significance of integrating it into teaching activities as the fifth language skill in addition to listening, speaking, reading, and writing. As is the fact,…
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…
With so many various approaches and new methods being constantly developed teachers are faced with a challenging task of choosing a suitable one for their classes. This can often be overwhelming so teachers are tempted to use proven traditional…
Foreign language education in Serbia has always been a direct reflection of socio-cultural factors specific for the historic period in question. It does not come as a surprise, then, that the educational reform initiated in Serbia in the early 2000s…
Product writing is considered uncreative and unstimulating, as it trains students to model their output according to rules and patterns. The risk students might particularly be exposed to when taught such writing is their memorising complete phrases,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
