A special attention to speech acts is required when teaching and learning foreign language aiming to achieve more natural communication in a foreign language. We need to take care not just about language communication, but about social communication…
This paper, titled Age as a Factor of Second Language Acquisition examines the relationship of age factor to second language acquisition. It examines the development of the theories relating age to language development. The idea that the early age is…
Language learning is strongly affected by different affective variables. Motivation has a nucleus role in one’s learning process. However, the purpose of this article is to examine students’ motivation and attitudes towards learning English. I am…
This paper deals with an analysis of media discourse on war. It is based on an extensive research of reporting of British and Montenegrin dailies on NATO airstrikes on Yugoslavia in 1999. The analysis was based on Teun Van Dijk’s theory on news…
The number of cases in the world languages can vary significantly, ranging from no morphological case marking (e.g. English) to more than ten cases (e.g. Ket, language isolate, Siberia). The distribution of the case marking pattern may appear to be…
Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), a type of specific knowledge that teachers possess, involves the synthesis of subject-matter knowledge and pedagogical knowledge (Shulman, 1986). PCK is developed through years of experience in the classroom since…
In foreign language teaching can be used appropriate texts. What are “appropriate texts” .in parallel to the velocity and multifunctionality, they are given importance especially in modern technology. Since they are short and multifunctional, in this…
Modern teaching methods for foreign language insist mostly on communicative skills and this is what the teacher pays the most attention to. Also, the faculties’ rules insist on written form of the exams. The problem is: how to exam the communicative…
There is general consensus among applied linguists, foreign language teachers/learners and researchers that vocabulary learning is an essential part of mastering a second language (Schmitt, 2008: 329). In order to function adequately in English, some…
Turkish and Turcoman are two of the Oghuz group Turkic languages. While Turcoman forms the east section in itself, Turkish is one of the Turkic languages that form the west part with Azerbaijani and Gagauz language. In this work, mistakes made by…
