Knowing that the progressive aspect adds the morpheme –ing to the verb's base, why is it that it needs to be further complicated by the fact that there are verbs which in their very base form already have this morpheme (bring, fling, etc.)? Why is…
According to the staff of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Zenica, second year students are not easily motivated to participate in classroom discussions. Most of the time, students are encouraged to participate,…
Online tutoring, nowadays has become widespread around the world. The interest and demand for it is growing day by day. Many students and teachers have realized efficiency and ease of learning foreign languages in this way, therefore they do not…
Learning a language always means learning not only grammar and vocabulary but specific terms and phrases as well, characteristic for the target language and very different from the mother tongue of the learner. This is even more true of the language…
In this paper we explore how cognitive linguistics (CL) can facilitate the teaching and learning of phrasal verbs with UP and DOWN in English as a foreign language. We conducted a small-scale research with students whose mother tongue is Serbian and…
Student assessment plays central and important role when teaching and learning. Diagnostic assessment is one way to measure the effectiveness of Implemented programs as well as students’ academic background. In this paper I will discuss the…
Following the earlier works of Booij (1985) and Nespor & Vogel (1986) I provide further evidence that English compounds are made up of prosodic words. The length of the first components must be preserved because they are identical to basic lexical…
The paper discusses Sherman Alexie's 2007 novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian within the context of the (de)construction of identity and Otherness of a “new” American Indian in the contemporary world. Through analysis of the…
The class of English nouns which are referred to as derived nominals is not a homogenous class. Namely, derived nominals can further be classified into process and result nominals. A group of properties owing to which such a classification is…
This study explores the differential effect of giving and receiving WCF on prompting writing of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 61 learners of English were randomly assigned to a WCF Giver group (n - 19), a WCF Receiver group (n = 22), and a…
