Word formation is a process of creating new words with some processes such as derivation, abbreviation, acronym, compounding, generified words, borrowing, and blending. In our always changing world it becomes a need for the languages to create new…
This study is conducted in order to investigate the generic awareness of reading strategy use of students and state the types of reading strategies used by them while performing a reading task. The students responded to a 45-item scale that…
The culture plays a huge role in society formation. Because it includes analysing life style of communities, their traditions, beliefs, language and art. Language learning or teaching activities in connection with the culture helps to understand the…
In this talk I will argue that our notion of linguistic competence needs to be revisited. Static depictions of the grammar of the target language are not suitable for informing research and language teaching. The fact is that language is dynamic, a…
The aim of this study was to apply a comparative method to the analysis of the acquisition of subject person marking in two typological different languages, Croatian and Yucatec Maya. Since no equivalent target entities have been identified in these…
Author:Blaha Pfeiler, Barbara
Hržica, Gordana
Palmović, Marijan
Kovačević, Melita
A teacher is an essential part of any education systems. Teacher training is always in the center of politics and various attempts have been made for it to become more efficient. Furthermore, great effort has been spent for improving language…
The present study was designed to investigate if there is a significant difference among SR clustering, SU clustering and TR clustering of vocabulary presented to Turkish EFL learners, and if there is, which way of presentation would be a more useful…
Many people would argue that metaphor is a characteristic of extraordinary rather than ordinary speech. However, Lakoff and Johnson (2003: 8) strongly disagree with that claiming that our conceptual system is fundamentally metaphorical in its nature.…
It has been hypothesized that the cross-linguistic influence is one of the main reasons for the difficulties learners face while learning a second language or reaching academic learning outcomes. Therefore, we decided to conduct a study and find out…
In the field of language education there are 4 basic skills that are essential in the process of teaching and learning. These are: reading, writing, listening and speaking. In many teaching methodology publications, all these skills are integrated in…
