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Zoe Ferraris’s Detective Fiction: Investigating Saudi Women

Nesreen Al-Harby, King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia;    Abstract: This paper examines the effects of employing genre, detective fiction, on the representation of women in Saudi Arabia through a deep study of Zoe Ferraris’s trilogy: Finding Nouf (2008), City of Veils...
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Using AI-powered tools in training non-native teachers of English

Silvia Pokrivčáková, University of Trnava, Slovakia;     Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has been entering nearly all aspects of human lives. The paper introduces several AI-powered tools that are interesting for both linguists and language teachers. AI in connection with...
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Understanding the Concept of Effective English as a foreign language Teaching

Rastislav Metruk, University of Žilina, Slovakia;      Abstract: The matter of effective EFL teaching has been examined by numerous researchers in the past decades as it is one of the key factors which directly influences the process of teaching and learning English. This...
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TRANSTEXTUAL REFERENCES AND THEIR ROLE IN MIDDLEMARCHBY GEORGE ELIOT

Agata Buda, University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Poland;     Abstract: Although the novel Middlemarch is the example of a traditional, nineteenth-century English novel with its third-person narration and popular subjects (gender roles, realism of a Victorian world...
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The Teacher`s Educational Style as an Important Factor of Interaction and Discourse in ELT (plenary)

Petr Dvořák & Lucie Betáková, University of South Bohemia, the Czech Republic;          Abstract: The teacher’s professional skills, mainly his/her social-psychological skills, play a crucial role in the classroom environment where foreign language...
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The role of the addressee in the jury trial discourse

Olga Krapivkina, Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Russia;     Abstract: The role of the addressee as a factor determining discourse of legal professionals is analyzed. The important role of this communicative factor makes it necessary to account for the effect of...
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Teaching the Suprasegmental Features to the EFL Learners

dr. Hana Vancova, Trnava University in Trnava, Slovakia;          Abstract: The previous research on suprasegmental features has shown, that stress, intonation and the overall rhythmicity of speech have an impact on the overall comprehensibility of...
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Teaching systems in the teaching of literature

Prof. Jakov Sablić, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia;       Abstract: This paper shows a theoretical review of all teaching systems with its characteristics in the teaching process. Firstly, the teaching systems are conceptually determined together...
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Teaching Receptive Skills and the Elements of Culture through Online Sources to Primary School Learners of English

Karolina Ditrych,  Uniwersytet Technologiczno – Humanistyczny in Radom, Poland;      Abstract: The article begins with a brief description of the characteristic features of primary school learners, who are divided into a group of lower primary learners (1st-3rd grade)...
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Teaching History Through Italian: Human Geography Realia as Cognitive and Pedagogical Tools in Monolingual Undergraduate CLIL Classes

Moreno Bonda, Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania;      Abstract: This paper discusses cognitive aspects of language and culture education. It tests a number of precepts on which the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) teaching approach is based....
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Teacher Beliefs and their Manifestation in Teaching from the Perspective of Pre-service Teacher Trainees

Zuzana Lukáčová, University of Prešov, Slovakia;      Abstract: Teacher beliefs play an important role in addressing the issue of teacher training. Teaching philosophy has long been a question of great interest in a wide range of fields in teacher education. There is a...
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Slovak as a second language of children and possibilities of its development in kindergartens

Markéta Fiľagová, University of Trnava, Slovakia;    Abstract: The paper deals with the possibility of supporting children with different mother tongue in learning Slovak in the institutional environment of kindergartens. As the current conditions do not legally recognize the...
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Slovak American Literature – Imagological reading of Thomas Bell´s Out of This Furnace

Anton Pokrivčák, University of Trnava, Slovakia;    Abstract: With multicultural, postcolonial or decolonial approaches, the late 20th century saw increasing tendency to see literature as part of cultural and political identity struggles. While in Europe identity has traditionally...
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Research of ability to differentiate words without visual support

doc. dr. Monika Máčajová, dr. Soňa Grofčíková, Ľubomír Rybanský, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia;        Abstract: Auditory differentiation is one of the key abilities in the development of phonological awareness. It is the starting point...
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Problems of bilingualism in the context of mastering a foreign language

Helena Bourina & Prof. Larisa Dunaeva, MGIMO University & Lomonosow State University in Moscow, Russia;          Abstract:  The foreign language education at a modern Russian university is implemented in compliance with established...
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President Buhari’s Anti-Corruption War in Nigeria: a Multimodal Discourse Interpretations of Selected Cartoons

Olowu Ayodeji, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic in Owo, Nigeria;          Abstract: This study identified and analysed the visual and linguistic components associated with the selected cartoons satirising the war against corruption embarked upon by Nigerian...
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ON USAGE SPECIFICATIONS IN DICTIONARIES FOR LEARNERS OF ENGLISH: CAMBRIDGE IDIOMS DICTIONARY AND OXFORD IDIOMS DICTIONARY IN FOCUS

Anna Stachurska, University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Poland;     Abstract: It is beyond any doubt that the information provided by dictionary definitions should indicate that language use depends on the pragmatic situation of discourse as well as the social...
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ON USAGE SPECIFICATIONS IN DICTIONARIES FOR LEARNERS OF ENGLISH: CAMBRIDGE IDIOMS DICTIONARY AND OXFORD IDIOMS DICTIONARY IN FOCUS

Anna Stachurska, University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Poland;        Abstract: It is beyond any doubt that the information provided by dictionary definitions should indicate that language use depends on the pragmatic situation of discourse as well as...
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On Developing Sustainable Education: Integrating STEM with CLIL

doc. dr. Ivana Cimermanová, University of Presov, Slovakia;          Abstract: The role of sustainability in education has received increased attention across a number of disciplines in recent years. The article discusses the studies and their results in...
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Naïve Narrator – an Effective Means in Humour Creating

Jana Waldnerová, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia;        Abstract: The paper focuses on literary humour and one method of its creating, which is by incorporation of the naïvenarrator. The impact of such strategy is crucial as the...
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Moment as an Eternity in Woolf's '"Waves"

Natia Noidze, Georgia;   Abstract: It is regarded that ‘’Waves’’ is the most experimental novel of Virginia Woolf. The novel is unique with its unconventional structure and chapterless narration, however, my paper aims to research the issue of time in’ ’Waves’’. It is not surprising that...
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Memory Mechanisms in Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and Darraj’s The Inheritance of Exile

Prof. Jousef Awad, University of Jordan;       Abstract: This paper examines the intersection of the performativity of exile, gender, memory, and agency through the prism of postmodern feminism in Chinese American novelist Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (1989) and in Arab...
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Language education support for children with different mother language in preschool age

Zuzana Bánovčanová, University of Trnava, Slovakia;    Abstract: With the increasing number of migrants in Europe, children from different cultural and language backgrounds are entering schools. Teachers and school principals in Slovakia are already encountering this problem. The...
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Key moments in the process of development of language teacher-researchers’ academic literacy

dr. Jitka Crhová & María del Rocío Domínguez-Gaona, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México;        Abstract: The present paper reports the results of a research project that focused on the development of academic literacy of a group of language...
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Historical Bratislava in Literary Fiction and Film Adaptation

Dominika Hlavinová Tekeliová, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia,        Abstract: The aim of the paper is to characterize the city of Bratislava after the First World War as a literary space in the short story Worst Crime in Wilson City...
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Gender politics in Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ as a stimulus for active learning and student engagement in the EFL classroom

Louise Kocianova, Trnava University, Slovakia;                Abstract: An active approach in the classroom dominates the teaching of Shakespeare in UK schools and its benefits are widely acknowledged for bringing together...
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EXPERIMENTATION OF TEACHING FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF ROMAN LAW IN CONTEMPORARY LAW EDUCATION

Öğretim Üyesi Elvan Sütken, Anadolu University, Turkey;         Abstract: Roman law, which is the most influencial law of ancient times, has great importance also today in law education for the perfection of law formation. In Roman law lessons, evolution of...
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EXPERIMENTATION OF TEACHING FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF ROMAN LAW IN CONTEMPORARY LAW EDUCATION

Elvan Sütken, Anadolu University, TURKEY;      Abstract: Roman law, which is the most influencial law of ancient times, has great importance also today in law education for the perfection of law formation. In Roman law lessons, evolution of Roman law institutions are described by...
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EFFECTS OF NON-NATIVE INSTRUCTORS’ L1, BELIEFS AND PRIORITIES ON PRONUNCIATION PEDAGOGY AT SECONDARY LEVEL IN DISTRICT RAJANPUR, PAKISTAN

Muhammad Imran & Quratul Ain, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China & Govt. College for Women, Rajanpur, Pakistan;          Abstract: This paper aims to know the effects of the pronunciation of non-native instructors...
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Development of foreign language phonemic awareness of primary learners with dyslexia and dysgraphia

Silvia Pokrivčáková, University of Trnava, Slovakia;          Abstract: The basic reason for learning difficulties of dyslectic and dysgraphic learners is an insufficiently developed phonological and phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is understood...
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Czech Journalism in the Context of the Political and Cultural Complexities

Lenka Tkáč-Zabáková, University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, Slovakia;        Abstract: The study is devoted to the journalism and its genesis in the Czech cultural and language environment. The importance is laid on the socio-political changes in the...
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Content-based teaching and plurilingual approach: how deep & how far? (virtual paper)

Prof. Zuzana Straková, University of Prešov, Slovakia;       Abstract: Content-based approach aims at connecting learning languages and meaningful context. Experience from integrating content and language from the Catalan and Basque educational context provides an...
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Challenges and possibilities of English as medium of instruction: lecturers’ attitudes and practices

Prof. dr. Jolita Horbacauskiene, Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania;          Abstract: Study programs and modules conducted in English as medium of instruction (EMI) becoming one of the most important aspects of higher education...
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Assessing Spoken Proficiency: Holistic and Analytic Ways of Scoring

Rastislav Metruk, University of Žilina, Slovakia;      Abstract: Carrying out a proper and objective evaluation of spoken proficiency of foreign language learners is a rather challenging task. This paper is concerned with the two ways of assessment which are commonly...
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African American Rap Culture as a Metamorphosis of Orality in Black Literature

Aminu Segun, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic in Owo, Nigeria;           Abstract: Rap music is a derivative of the oral forms of literature, which is man’s original medium of self-expression and artistic creativity. Rap music (Rhythm and Blues) is a highly...
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Adaptation in news transference

Jolita Horbacauskiene & Adrija Kalpokaite, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania;         Abstract: News translation is inherent part of the Translation and Adaptation studies because it is interdisciplinary process. Furthermore, news translation...
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A significant role of CLIL tasks in cognition development

dr. Michaela Sepešiová, University of Prešov, Slovakia;        Abstract: It is important to accentuate that CLIL is not a way of simplifying transferred knowledge or replicate information that learners already know. When applying CLIL, teachers should really...
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A corpus based study of ‘Dharma’ in the translated English version of the Sanskrit text Yajnavalkyasmriti

Navreet Kaur Rana, O. P. Jindal Global University in Haryana, India;      Abstract: This paper reports a corpus linguistic study of the English translation of the Sanskrit text Yajnavalkya smriti. The corpus is adapted from an edited version of the scripture translated into...
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A CONSPICUOUS PRAGMATIC SCOPE TO INFLUENCE TEACHING LEGAL ENGLISH TO ALGERIAN STUDENTS: THE CASE OF LEGAL ENGLISH STUDENTS AT THE FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF ORAN 2

Younes SAAID1 & Mimouna ZITOUNI2, University of Oran 2, Algeria;      ABSTRACT: Being able to use English in a proficient manner has undoubtedly become an essential asset in Algerian professional and academic settings over the last few years. Recent contingency for a...
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Kashubian as an ausbau language: a sociolinguistic perspective

Rafał Gołąbek, Uniwersytetu Technologiczno-Humanistycznego im. Kazimierza Pułaskiego w Radomiu, Poland;     Abstract: The article addresses a long-standing issue with regard to the status of Kashubian, a lect spoken in northern Poland. Should it be treated as a language, or a...
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Tropes-Based Difficulties Encountering EFL Students when Interpreting Literary Text: towards Promoting Communicative Competence

Souad Benguega, Université Kasdi Merbah, Algeria;          Abstract: It is proved that literature can develop EFL students’ communicative competence. However, Algerian EFL students lack enthusiasm toward learning literature because of inability to...
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