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The Relationship between Teacher Personality and Learner Motivation in EFL Learning
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Dubravka Štrbinić Ciko Individual differences in learners and teachers represent a key element in the learning process. In particular, motivation and personality can have a great impact on L2 achievement. As for the motivation, major frameworks have been given by Gardner's (1985) and Noels et al. (2000) works on learners' attitudes and motivation in L2 learning. The most influential personality framework in the last decades has been offered by Costa and McCrae (1992, 2003) and it is known as the Big Five model....
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The Representation of Female Characters in the CW's Supernatural
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Nikolina Brala The handling of female characters in Eric Kripke’s Supernatural has long been a questionable one. In its fifteen-year air time, Supernatural has not wavered far from its twomen core cast but has introduced many side characters that accompanied the Winchester brothers along their way of fighting the supernatural across the US. Considering the essential role women have played in establishing and creating for the gothic and horror genre, from which Supernatural draws inspiration and pays...
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The Representation of Woman in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats
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Matea Šimičević This paper deals with the representation of women in the poetry of William Butler Yeats. The
paper tries to demonstrate ways in which W.B. Yeats conveyed women; woman as Ireland, the
woman he loves (Maud Gonne), woman through the symbol of the rose, women in general etc.
The paper mostly focuses on the poems in which Yeats’s expresses his love towards Maud
Gonne who was his everlasting inspiration.
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The Representations of Working-Class Struggles in Post-Industrial Scottish Fiction
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Božena Jurčević This diploma paper explores the representation of the working class in post-industrial Scotland through a critical evaluation of four novels: Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain, Janice Galloway’s The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, and James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late. The analysis situates these narratives within the context of postindustrial Scotland. Margaret Thatcher’s premiership has introduced neoliberal policies that have profoundly changed the...
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The Rhetoric of American Politicians
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Maja Butković This MA thesis deals with the relationship between language and politics. Language is the primary human means of communication. It is also incorporated in social relations, which is where power relations and politics come into question. The main premise of this MA thesis, which was presented in its theoretical part, was that the language used by politicians in their political speeches is not only a means of political agenda, but also a result of it, i.e. that there is a close relation...
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The Rise of Dystopian Fiction in English and Russian Literature: Aldous Huxley and Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin
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Anđela Cmrečki This final paper was written with a purpose to describe the literary work of two biggest representatives of dystopian fiction, Aldous Huxley and Yegveny Ivanovich Zamyatin. The focus was put on their most famous novels Brave New World and We and how through those novels both writers criticized the abuse of science in totalitarian regimes. The paper has been divided into several sections. Firstly, to explain why these novels are examples of dystopian fiction, the distinction between utopian...
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The Role of Demotivation among English Language Learners
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Anamarija Bešlić In a globalized world, second language (L2) learning has become one of the most important aspects of education. Consequently, it is important to investigate one of the most important factors for learning a language, which is motivation. There are many studies investigating learners’ motivation; however, there are very few investigating learner L2 demotivation and demotivating factors that negatively influence learners’ progress. For this reason, this thesis aims to investigate the main...
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The Role of Water Imagery in the Modernist Novel
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Luka Antonio Gotovac This final paper deals with three modernist novels: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Edward Morgan Forster's A Room with a View. This examination of the selected novels focuses on the role of water imagery that prevails in modernist literary fiction, generally speaking. The role of water imagery is explained as modernist authors’ response to a new sense of space at the beginning of the twentieth century. It highly contributed literary presentation of...
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The Role of the Clown in Gothic Fiction
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Blaženka Juren This paper examines the specific role of the clown in gothic fiction. Throughout deep research, there is an attempt to present its negative side in the film/literature and its great ability to exploit fear through his physical appearance, inner motives and actions as well. Moreover, this paper analyses clown as a combination of humor and horror which makes him the perfect antagonist.
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The Role of the Setting in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Ivana Jelinić This final paper presents a study of the role of the setting in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The paper examines the setting of the play as well as the scenery used in Renaissance theatre. Firstly, the accent is on the general look and the setting of the Renaissance stage in order to gain an insight into specific conditions of Renaissance staging. Secondly, the setting or more precisely two different settings – Athens and the wood in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are...
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The Status of Children's Literature in the Literary Polysystem with the Case Study of Morris Gleitzman's Short Stories
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Antonia Bakmaz The polysystem theory, developed by the Israeli literary and translation theorist Itamar Even-Zohar, describes every national literature as a polysystem consisting of multiple literary systems, which all interact and influence one another. Each system occupies a certain position within the polysystem – some are central to their national literary polysystem, others are more peripheral, and their positions can change at different points in time. Children's literature can be seen as one of...
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