This paper discusses the use of corpus linguistics sources, in particular, the Collins Worldbanks Online Corpus in terms of its characteristics and possibilities for linguistic analyses, which may significantly improve the process of teaching English…
Both L2 students and teacher are well aware of the fact that verbal aspect is one of the most difficult issues to master in Slavic languages. The reason for this is mainly its complexity. Verbal aspect may appear to be a grammatical issue…
In a paper titled “The Art of Synthetising Life and Literature: Critical and Theoretical Attempts at Understanding Sylvia Plath’s Poetics,” my intention is to concentrate on the comparative analysis of critical and theoretical models that structure…
The use of gender-neutral language instead of gender-biased one is rapidly becoming important in the business and academic world. In fact, gender-neutral words such as “human being”, “person” and “chairperson” are commonly used as generic meanings in…
Language makes it possible to use and understand complex language structures and cognitive mechanisms describing our reality. Scientists have made a number of attempts at understanding and using these conceptual mechanisms for various purposes.…
Scheduled Language Training (SLT), a program of ESP based on Indonesian context, is a one-hundred hour English teaching program designed for nursing students planning to get Nursing Certificate. One of the requirements to be certified nurses is that…
The paper analyses the concept of pride in English and Bosnian idioms through the application of cognitive theory: the theory of conceptual metaphor and metonymy. The first part of the paper presents some of the major traditional theories on idioms,…
This paper discuses the use of the Critical Discourse Analysis approach in the study of newspaper articles. Analysis of newspaper texts cannot be limited to linguistic analysis of texts; rather, it calls for a wider perspective, which includes both…
The choice of our subject was guided by our own desire to know how to motivate students in FLE in order to give them a taste of self-effort and success. Based on our interest in student motivation, we wanted to think about the available ways to…
This paper is concerned with the importance of teaching culture in a foreign language class. Linguists have long recognized that the forms and uses of a given language reflect the cultural values of the society in which the language is spoken. This…
