Language is the differentia specifica of human species. Every human being acquires it regardless of race, sex or social status. Following the cognitive revolution of 1950s, Noam Chomsky’s theory of Universal Grammar (UG) became the foundation for the…
In this paper we propose the use of Agent-Based Models (ABM) (Gilbert 2008) to study the development of historical natural languages starting from a universal grammar according to Chomsky’s "Theory of the principles and parameters" (Chomsky 1995) . …
Author:Bait, Miriam
Folgieri, Raffaella
Scarpello, Oscar
Analyses of various business languages show a great presence of Anglicisms, which can be ascribed to companies’ desires to be competitive on the global market. In line with current globalization trends, the impact of English as a source language on…
Nowadays a lot of methods have been searched to be able to find out the better, easier and more beneficial, techniques and principles of teaching a language more effectively. In this article you can see one of these studies. Writer presents and…
The study‘s main aim is to find out how advanced learners of English whose mother tongue is Turkish are dealing with collocations and where these learners‘ main errors stem from. In order to have a basic insight into the sources of error, the…
In foreign language teaching in general, exercises must have a dominant position, since a large variety of exercises is a prerequisite for mastering any foreign language. All other processes in the classroom should have a subsidiary function, to…
Despite widespread use of only English in teaching EFL classes, the use of first language in EFL class has been a perennial topic of discussion in the field of language education. Most established L2 teaching methods discourage the use of L1 in …
This paper aims to present the situation of using IT tools in everyday classes where foreign language is taught. The research is empirical. The survey study was conducted among students of a new private university in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The…
Literature is one of the most important resources supporting the grammatical structure of English as a Foreign Language/as a Second Language ( EFL/ESL) learners as well as the linguistic components of English language, and thus literature help…
Author:ELKILIÇ, Gencer
ERISEN, Gülşen
KAYINTU, Ahmet
KARACA, Harun