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The Pursuit of the Almighty Dollar: Salesmen in American Drama and Cinema
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Mario Iličić This paper presents an analysis of salesmen in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman (1958), David Mamet's play Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), and in the movies The Pursuit of Happyness1 (2006) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), all of who were competing in a cruel world of trade and commerce with the aim of achieving the American Dream. The theoretical framework of the paper firstly discusses the political circumstances in England which consequently led to the creation of the American...
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The Question of Intimacy in the novels "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "1984" by George Orwell
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Tomislav Mišić George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World have set the standard for contemporary literary dystopia thanks to their haunting representation of the bleak human future. They both depict and represent the degradation of human race to mere state-controlled slaves whose only purpose is to blindly obey the ruling regime and not to question authority. Both 1984 and Brave New World are considered to be prophetic pieces of literary work since almost everything described in those...
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The Question of Morality in the World of Warcraft
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Ivan Benković Written by several authors, the Warcraft novel series began to attract masses in the early 2000s. Moreover, popularized by the corresponding video game franchise Warcraft by Blizzard Entertainment, the storyline got an additional boost. In 2016, it reached its peak with the release of the first movie Warcraft. The original trilogy was published by Richard A. Knaak. Later, other authors filled in the backstory and created more sequels both in written and video game format. By creating...
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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 Relationship between Speaking Strategies and Willingness to Communicate in English and Hungarian as Foreign Languages
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Tea Horvat This master's thesis explored the relationship between speaking strategies and willingness to communicate in English and Hungarian as foreign languages and the differences between the two languages. There were differences present in the use of speaking strategies: students of English use self-evaluating as well as synonyms and circumlocutions often, whereas students of Hungarian opt for the use of L1 (first language - Croatian), they are open to receiving help while speaking, and often...
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