Dr. Mirushe Hoxha, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Macedonia This paper aims to set forth an hypothesis of the complementarity between grammatical forms and cultural schemas of apparently different cultural and linguistic contexts in understanding the phenomena. For this purpose, the research brings together the optative mood of the Albanian

Dr. Paula Orzechowska, A dam Mickiewicz University, Poland This talk provides an analysis of initial and final consonant clusters in English. On the basis of empirically observed tendencies of distribution and co-occurrence of distinctive features in segments forming clusters, we propose a set of new phonotactic preferences which govern the

Jen-Yu Pai & Dr. Teng-lung Peng, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan While the relationship between the shadowing practice and listening acquisition in the field of second language learning has been widely probed, the effects of the shadowing practice on language learners’ supra-segmental acquisition is seldom paid attention

Dr. Muayyad Omran Chiad, University of Kerbala, Iraq Non-verbal Signals refer to the movements when human beings use to communicate with each other without speech or writing. They are important in communication as face-to-face conversation if not take the limelight from it. However, more research is necessary to confirm this

Hasti Abbasi, Griffith University, Australia Creative writers have long followed the tradition of romantic exile, looking inward in an attempt to construct new viewpoints through the power of imagination. For a writer, certain satisfaction can be achieved through producing a creative art away from the anxiety of the sense of

Dr. Manfred Malzahn, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Among recent currents in the field of literary studies, geocriticism has emerged asbeing probably the most promising, arguably the most accommodating, and—paradoxically—the most traditional of innovations. This paper will seek to illuminate the nature and the potential of a critical approach that

Dr. Vugar Sultanzade, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus The article deals with the origin of the wordsAstara and Astarabad(now Gorgan), that are the names of the towns located at the southwestern and southeastern corners of Caspian Sea, respectively. The etymology of the toponymAstara is generally explained by the geographical location of

Dr. Sarvenaz Hatami, California State University, USA In both L2 research and pedagogy, individual words have been considered the basic lexical unit; this is not surprising, because individual words are convenient to identify, teach, and work with (Schmitt, 2010). However, there is a growing awareness that language users do not

Drew Milewski, Fatima College of Health Sciences, UAE Research into syntactic ambiguity resolution provides insight into how languages are acquired, stored, retrieved and processed (Harley, 2014). The present study developed existing experimental techniques by modifying off-line questionnaires to include additional ambiguity forms. Whilst past studies were limited to comparisons of

Dr. Filomachi Spathopoulou, American Univeristy of The Middle East, Kuwait Learner autonomy has been a matter of interest among educators in a variety of teaching contexts; however, providing autonomy in the context of EAP can be rather daunting especially when it involves accommodating cultural particularities. This presentation will look into