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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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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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The Representations of Femme Fatale in Literature and Movies: a Feminist Phenomenon or a Sexual Object?
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Tea Barić This paper analyses the femme fatale archetype and its representations in literature and movies. Its aim is to explore whether they represent feminist heroes who changed the traditional roles of women in society or whether they are stereotypical characters represented as male fantasies objectified into sex symbols based on the prejudices and injustices of patriarchal society. The femme fatale archetype is analysed in 1862 Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s novel Lady Audley’s Secret, 1940 Raymond...
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The Role of Aesthetic Education in Early EFL Learning
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Marina Lukačević Aesthetics is a philosophical discipline dealing with the sensory cognition of the truth realized as beauty. According to Kant, a beautiful work of art is created by a genius in the free use of her cognitive powers of imagination and understanding. The present study attempted to apply Kants aesthetic insights to FL vocabulary learning. A theoretical design of an aesthetic vocabulary strategy was offered and the additive effect of its application as opposed to imagery technique was tested in...
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The Role of First Language in Learning English as a Foreign Language
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Beata Šikloši The present paper examines the role of the mother tongue in learning English, more precisely, in acquiring the English article system. Comparing the results of two types of tests completed by Hungarian and Croatian learners of English some conclusions were made on whether the presence or absence of the article system in the students’ L1 has any effect on their success in acquiring the English articles. The role of the mother tongue was tested both at the receptive and the productive level.
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