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The Relationship Between Motivation and Exposure to EFL outside the Classroom
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Monika Ložnjak Fabjanović Language learning is a complex process that is constantly changing and being influenced by numerous factors, including cognitive, affective and social. Studies on motivation have found their roots in different theories and methodologies that introduced a number of variables. The present study examines the relationship between motivation and EFL outside the classroom. Motivation is thus defined as another complex system that has different stems, while English outside the classroom belongs to...
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The Relationship Between Speaking Activities in the EFL Classroom and Croatian State School-leaving Exam
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Anita Frančešević The main idea of this paper is to show that by introducing the high-stake exam in Croatia the speaking skill in EFL classrooms is being neglected. This can be explained by the backwash effect. The backwash effect has been widely researched in many countries, whereas in Croatia the research is still in its early phase. In order to test this hypothesis a survey has been conducted, which aimed to explore the relationship between speaking activities in the EFL classroom and Croatian state...
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The Relationship between Grammar Learning Strategies and Risk-taking in EFL learners
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Klara Vuković This study investigates the relationship between GLS and risk-taking by male and female learners from Grammar School in Osijek. In theoretical part learning strategies particularly grammar learning strategies were explained, the term risk-taking in EFL was defined and explained, earlier studies on the topic grammar learning strategies and risk-taking in EFL were presented. In experimental part attention is paid to use of particular grammar learning strategies, how these strategies correlate...
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The Relationship between Introversion/Extroversion, Language Learning Strategies and Success in English as a Foreign Language
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Monika Zirdum One of the most researched and important areas of second language acquisition are individual differences between the learners, i.e. why some learners tend to learn foreign languages easier than the others. Some of the most common individual differences are age, language aptitude, motivation, personality, language learning styles and strategies etc. This diploma paper deals individual differences in learning English as a foreign language, i.e. more specifically with the personality of...
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The Relationship between Oral Corrective Feedback and Learners' Motivation in EFL
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Dora Pavić Corrective feedback refers to corrections teachers provide to learners in formal teaching when they produce erroneous utterances. Since English lessons are often communicative in nature, and there are a lot of speaking activities, teachers use oral corrective feedback. It is assumed that oral corrective feedback can affect learners' motivation to participate in oral activities in EFL classrooms. This study sought to find if there is a relationship between motivation and learners' attitudes...
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The Relationship between Readability, Reading Comprehension and Reading Strategies in EFL
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Rahela Kuterovac This paper explores the relationship between EFL learners' reading comprehension achievement and reading strategies they employ while reading two texts of different readability. The first part of the paper brings the theoretical background of reading comprehension, readability and reading strategies followed by an overview of previous research on the topic. The present study was carried out with 76 high school third graders who took two comprehension tests, first of them involving the easier...
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The Representation of Serial Killers in the Media
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Erna Majer Serial killers have always attracted people’s attention. The media is a key element in shaping human perception around serial killers and it often portrays them as monsters to capture the attention of the entire society. The media’s focus is on their lives and the heinous crimes they have committed, which leads to the creation of numerous stereotypes and distorted social perceptions about them. But the media portrayal can go in a completely different direction by romanticizing and...
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The Representation of Women in the Army in Contemporary American War and Fantasy Literature
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Valentina Markasović Love My Rifle More Than You by Kayla Williams and Shoot Like a Girl by Mary Jennings
Hegar represent two instances of the rising genre of women’s military memoirs. They offer
women’s views on the social constructs within the military, not only the nature, but also the
perception of which is considered to be highly masculine. In addition to the memoirs, a
conduit for women to engage in battles and express their experiences is the genre of fantasy.
The paper therefore compares and...
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The Representation of the American Dream in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and John Ford's Film Adaptation
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Zvonimir Obradović The goal of this paper is to show the similarities and the differences in the portrayal of the American Dream in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath and John Ford’s film adaptation. The American Dream is the national creed that highlights ideas like freedom, individualism, and equality of opportunity as supreme. James Truslow Adams gives expression to this long-lasting idea that stems from the Puritans and is further influenced by the Founding Fathers, multitudes of entrepreneurs,...
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