There are many online assessment tools available on the World Wide Web and it is necessary to test and evaluate them before their wider use is encouraged. Using such tools has many advantages and one of such is enabling students to learn how to navigate and use information using their computers. Computer literacy requires skills such as sifting thr...

By Adnan Bujak, Šejla Drocić

The  paper  explores  the  frequency  of  participial  modifier  clauses  in  a  selection  of  texts  in  the magazine genre. Non-finite clauses containing the main verb in the participle form, called –ing and –ed forms,  are  not  uncommon  ...

By Edina Rizvić-Eminović, Adnan Bujak, Goran Grubešić

The aim of this paper is to offer insight on how English idioms containing the zoonym component are translated into Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS). The analysis includes 82 examples of English idioms taken from the lexicographic source, bilingual dictionary, which were then categorized according to their zoonym  constituents  and  em...

By Adnan Bujak, Đelaludina Šukalić

The  Covid-19 pandemic has radically affected all aspects of people’s lives around the globe, including higher education. Many countries enforced the shutdown of all non-essential economic activities, which led to the closure of universities and the abrupt transition to distance teaching and learning. The present paper investigates how t...

By Melisa Bureković, Edina Rizvić-Eminović, Adnan Bujak

The topic of this paper, using songs in EFL classroom, is something that teachers come across on a daily basis in their EFL classrooms. However, not much attention was devoted to the proper use of songs in foreign language classroom. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to present the result of a research done in a primary school “Kaćuni&rdqu...

By Adnan Bujak, Senad Mujičić

Although considered as two separateentities, language and music share a wide variety of features making the distinction between the two more blurred as deeper research is conducted. Music and music-like utterances appear alongside language from fetal phase to maturity linking it closely tofirst language acquisition and language development. Such in...

By Adnan Bujak, Senad Mujičić

We live in modern age. Consequently, most of the time we are being exposed to the technological advancements. To some of them we react with indifierence; some of them we perceive as insidious threats;while theothersa reseenasa hugeliberation.Thus,computer-mediated communication (CMC)falls into the latter category. Moreover, it isomnipresent and fav...

By Adnan Bujak, Henrijeta Pašagić

Engleski kondicionali kao takvi su nezaobilazan dio u nastavi engleskog jezika. Veoma često u toku obrazovanja nailazimo na različita tumačenja i objašnjenja engleskih kondicionala i njihovih tipova. Kondicionali kao takvi se proučavaju sa različitih stajališta i veoma često imamo sasvim različite interpretacije istih vrsta kondiciona...

By Adnan Bujak

Pragmatički kondicionali predstavljaju vrstu kondicionalnih rečenica koje obično nisu poznate za učenike i studente enleskog jezika. Ovi kondicionali spadaju u vrstu kondicionala u engleskom jeziku koji mogu biti veoma teški za interpretaciju. U ove kondicionale spadaju hipotetički, tzv. kondicionali toka događaja i prototipski pragmatički k...

By Adnan Bujak

Da li osoba može razmišljati izvan okvira sopstvenog jezika? Ovo pitanje, na koje nema jasnog odgovora, predstavlja pokretačku snagu kognitivnih lingvista. Gledajući na jezik kao na jednu kognitivnu sposobnost, pitanje podrazumijeva činjenicu da se govor i razmišljanje ne mogu razdvojiti. Međutim, pripadnici jednog naroda, unatoč činj...

By Adnan Bujak, Mirza Krehić