It has already been indicated that parents have a significant impact on their children’s learning of a foreign language (among others,Desforges and Abouchaar, 2003, Gardner, 1985; Lindgren &Muňoz, 2013; MihaljevićDjigunović, 2009; and Xuesong, 2006).…
The aim of this study was to contribute to advancement of foreign language teaching and to direct attention to exceptional children as a group of students very often neglected in the elementary and highschool educational system in Herzegovina-Neretva…
There are many sources that may prove to be beneficial for primary school students learning English and certainly technology may be considered as one of the most important sources. While mentioning about using technology in ELT, computer is the…
The question regarding how to teach structure has played a leading role in teaching field for years. They are on-going debates among linguists on how to teach linguistic forms. Rod Ellis (2003) suggests two questions; 1) Does form-focused instruction…
Britain is like other multicultural countries such as USA, Canada, France, Malaysia, etc. one of the multicultural countries in the world. Britain’s overall ethnic population is nearly %10 percent and from that percentage British Asians constitute…
This paper analyzes the acquisition and application of possessive pronouns in contemporary Serbian language. When analyzing the current situation in standard Serbian, some characteristics that differ from the official language norm are noticeable.…
The individual as a part of the society owns a very important element so that he can become part of it: the verbal communication. If we focus here we will see that the language user is the past, the present and the future of language itself. From one…
The cognitive abilities explained by cognitive science and cognitive semantics can inform us concerning the use of metaphors in science. The thesis is that abstract ideas rest on experiences of the concrete world. In this paper I will explain the use…
This paper presents three small corpora of kinship terms borrowed into three languages: English, Croatian and Bosnian. In all three cases, kinship terms were borrowed from the languages of the respective conquerors. The English language borrowed…
Modern technology plays an important role in the life of a young language learner and therefore it should be regularly used in the process of language teaching. There are many arguments in favour of using technology and there are some arguments that…