Poetry courses are taught in Foreign Language Teacher Education Departments either independently (the Uludag University case) or within the framework of general literature courses. The relevant sources benefited from in such courses may initially aim…
Conceptual integration theory, proposed by Fauconnier and Turner in 1993, has been successfully used in the study a wide range of phenomena of human thought and action, from counterfactuals to metaphors, proving blending to be present in the simplest…
Television may be a useful L2 resource particularly in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context because it provides authentic L2 input in an environment with limited L2 input. Research has shown that L2 learners can incidentally learn L2…
In today’s rapidly changing society need for the skills of independent learning is obvious. The implementation of the model of independent English learning skills is possible in a student-centered study process when teachers and students are aware of…
For a long period of time, an imperative of acquiring cross-cultural competence has been the most important thing in the contemporary approach to language teaching. In the process of SLA students’ knowledge and experience is being put in the…
Modern foreign language teaching approaches emphasize intercultural competence as equally important as communicative language competences (CEF 2011). Thus, there is still no unique theoretical model of interculturalism, intercultural teaching or…
Important goals of a modern language classroom are development of intercultural competence and sensitivity to other cultures (CEF 2001). The majority of research about multiculturalism/intercultural competence in language teaching and learning has…
Maritime English is an example of ESP crucial to its users on board ships as much as a lifejacket. Nevertheless, some of its aspects have so far been neglected, and legalese is definitely one of them. The opinion has been confirmed lately upon the…
The paper is based on a descriptive study of the lexical words used to redefine students’ curricula at the academic communities, in order to improve the quality and the employability of the degrees. The textual analysis was applied on about 990…
Italian as a foreign language means that Italian is taught in countries where the first language (L1) is not Italian. It means that Italian is taught as a school subject for the purpose of communicating with foreigners or for reading printed…
