Vampirism has been a component of Central European and Balkan folklore since the Middle Ages and was often believed to be responsible for the transmission of serious infectious diseases such as plague and tuberculosis/consumption. Vampirism was believed to be spread within the same family or village and if the rite of the so-called second burial after death was not performed. The practice of "s...

Reading contributes to vocabulary development and is regarded as an efficient pedagogical approach learning. Through reading, learners are exposed new words in their rightful context of use. This study investigates the effects input enhancements on incidental academic word learning through reading English texts among a Second Language (ESL) undergraduates. The compares different conditions, glo...

The purpose of this study was to investigate students’ perceptions the effects using Flipgrid (FG) on their learning experiences and advantages disadvantages its use in Arabic as a foreign/world language (AWL) classroom. Thirty students participated completed survey composed an 18-item, 5-point Likert-type questionnaire open-ended questions. Results indicated that even though were skeptical abo...

The recent discovery of an Atlantic halberd among other abundant and rich grave goods in the Bell Beaker double tomb 1 Humanejos (Parla, Madrid) demonstrates that this type weapon was part panoply. It is first example a burial context Iberia only second one Europe. remaining halberds come from old isolated finds Early Bronze Age deposits were usually interpreted as post-Beaker votive deposits. ...

Extant research has highlighted the essentiality of grammatical metaphor (GM) as a linguistic resource in academic writing. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this study investigated relationship between explicit instruction nominalisation one type GM and ESL learners’ mastery key resource. Adopting true experimental design, involved 38 Filipino professionals Singapore who needed...