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The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of cognitive theories important for foreign language acquisition and to emphasize the role of language aptitude for foreign language comprehension. Language comprehension is a specific example…

Assessment and Evaluation are important teaching techniques .It has been touched upon by some practitioners, researchers and educators recently. It secures important place in ESL class. Although the teachers face number of challenges to modify…

The term ‘alienation’ continues to be a central concept summarizing salient facets of life in contemporary societies in spite of the obscurities, even contradictions that encompass it. This phenomenon has acquired an important role in philosophy,…

The last years in Greece second generation immigrants who study at Greek schools use Greek language fluently and in many cases they speak Greek in such a proficiency that are not recognizable as non-Greeks. Primarily this means that these …

Alan Paton, in Cry, the Beloved Country, heightens sensitivities throughout the world to the unrelenting, legalized racial discrimination in South Africa. Not onlydoes he dramatically portray the exploitation of native black people in a country where…

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…

In the advertising industry today, it is notable that the use of visual elements such as images is fast growing. Earlier ads stated their messages mostly via the textual medium, but in the contemporary advertising the use of images has become more…

From previous research, perceptual saliency and morphophonological and morphosyntactic regularity significantly contribute to a successful acquisition of morphemes (Goldschneider & DeKeyser 2001). This pilot study investigates if and to what extent…

Motivation is a key to success. It helps us understand why we do the things we do, or why we learn and thrive to further develop our abilities to do something. In language learning motivation plays a crucial role, because only the motivated…

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…