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The number of American, English and Australian branch campuses in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region almost doubled between 2000–2007 from 140 to 260, and Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alone have established over 40 branch…

Mark Twain, through his modern "Yankee," reveals to his readers the underlying desire to overcome the very material world he apparently wants to instantiate. Although the Yankee seems a modern man who simply wants to create the conditions in…

Political, Historical and Environmental Factors at LanguageTransmissionfrom Generation to Generation: the Model of Uzbek Originated Afghan Immigrants who live in Gaziantep, Turkey Since language has a major role for transmitting the cultural values…

The present study aims to investigate plagiarism and its major types and causes among Iranian MA students majoring in ELT. It also aims at finding the possible similarities and differences between male and female students in terms of committing…

For several decades the issue of personality effects on second language acquisition has been high on the agenda of many second language acquisition researchers (cf. Dewaele, 2009). Nevertheless, personality and other non-intellectual characteristics…

The status of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has been accepted as an increasingly popular debate in Applied Linguistics and current English language teaching (ELT). A major body of research in the study of ELF has concentrated on the consequences…

Recent studies investigating transfer in language acquisition have shown that not only the knowledge of a first language, but also all other languages known to a person may facilitate the acquisition of a new language. This is also the case with …

As an educator at an international school located in a pre-dominantly Balkan cultural milieu, I see myself crossing several contact zones (sometimes more than one, simultaneously). While there is a dangerous sense of enjoyment that comes with this…

Literary works are wide opened for discussions and points of view. Since its beginnings literature offered to its reader new ideas and thoughts; it affected society in many manners: way of living, communication, thinking and re-thinking. Modern…

The initial premise of this paper is the existence of literary and literary-scientific discourses characterized by instruments and methodology typical for lexicographical texts: dictionaries, encyclopaedias and lexicons. These are the texts of hybrid…