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English Language Students' Attitudes Towards Native and Non-native English Teachers
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Petra Lukić One of the main arguments for unfair treatment of NNESTs and hiring policies, by which NESTs are prioritized and given precedence over NNESTs, is that students prefer to be taught by NESTs. The aim of this study is to investigate whether students share such preference, and explore what their attitudes towards NESTs and NNESTs are. The study involved 40 students, enrolled in the first and second year of the M.A. program in English language, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in...
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English Prepositions Off and From and Their Croatian Counterparts
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Mateja Novosel This thesis deals with the English prepositions off and from and their Croatian counterparts. Research was conducted in order to see how off and from are translated into Croatian. Upon concluding the first part of the research, a contrastive analysis was conducted in order to analyze the reverse situation. Using the information we gained from the first part of the research, we analyzed the most relevant translations of off and from which proved to be iz, sa and od. In the main part of the...
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English Prepositions Over and Above
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Pamela Grozdanić English prepositions have been considered to be as one of the most difficult structures for students to master especially because prepositional systems across languages vary to a considerable degree and bilingual dictionaries offer inadequate portrayal of prepositional semantics (Brala, 2013). A cognitive semantic approach offers insights that could be helpful in a pedagogical context, so the aforementioned approach has been taken into account while presenting the English prepositions over...
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English Translation of the Short Story "Tabernakul" by Jurica Pavičić
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Katarina Reljić This BA thesis aims to translate a piece of Croatian literature into the English language. Using the translation of the short story “Tabernakul” by Jurica Pavičić, the thesis addresses the process of translating a rather culturally marked piece, more specifically, the issues regarding the translation of a literary work which incorporates elements of a variant of colloquial Croatian spoken in and around the city of Split. After a brief introduction to Pavičić and the context of in...
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English-Medium Instruction at the Faculty of Engineering in Rijeka: Conditions, Commitment and Commitment and Competencies
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Elisa Velčić Janjetić In the last decades we have witnessed the widespread use of English in all domains of human achievement, among which in academia. There has been a noticeable increase in English-medium instruction (EMI) in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and beyond. The present study is concerned with EMI implementation at one of the constituent institutions of Rijeka University, i.e. the Faculty of Engineering (TFRI). A comprehensive analysis of the existing conditions, commitment and competencies...
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Epiphany in James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Kristijan Grgurić The main focus of this thesis is explaining the notion of epiphany in James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, how the epiphanies in the novel affect the development of the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, their relation to Joyce's theory of aesthetics, as well as the development and shift in the narrative aspect of the novel. In the first part of the thesis, I will introduce the character of Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of the novel, contextualizing his line of thought,...
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Erasmus Student's Experiences of English-Medium Instruction at the University of Rijeka
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Marina Dadasović This thesis focuses on attitudes and experiences of international students who participated in the Erasmus Programme at the University of Rijeka (UNIRI) in the academic year 2014/ 2015. English-medium instruction (EMI) at UNIRI is still rather unexplored and calls for more research and better understanding. The data presented here show that incoming students are generally satisfied with different aspects of their studies in Rijeka, including quality of courses offered, lecturers teaching and...
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