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Frontiers in psychology, Apr 8, 2024
Introduction: Although the majority of adoptive families remain stable, some of them break up pre... more Introduction: Although the majority of adoptive families remain stable, some of them break up prematurely. Methods: Adopting a qualitative approach, this study gave voice to seven adoption applicants who began the adoption journey with one or more children but did not complete the legal process. Our goal was to understand their experiences throughout the adoption process and disruption. Results: The results show how adoption applicants went, in a short period, from the excitement of finding a child or sibling group to disillusionment and trauma. The main risk factors that hinder adoption stability include unrealistic expectations, intuitive choice of the child in the absence of accurate information, challenges posed by the child's particular characteristics, and lack of professional support. Discussion: Our study highlights the need for adopters to be assisted throughout the entire process by specialists, to be better prepared to deal with the complex needs of children in the protection system, and to facilitate their access to a complex of specialized services to meet the different needs of every family.
Revista Academiei Forţelor Terestre, Nov 30, 2023
The ability to think and make proper conclusions independently is referred to as critical thinkin... more The ability to think and make proper conclusions independently is referred to as critical thinking. Because of its prominence in teaching a foreign language, fostering critical thinking in students is now regarded as one of the objectives of foreign language educators. Critical thinking is a continuously evolving endeavor that values reading, investigating, and analyzing current events. Strategies to promote critical thinking in language learning may be adopted at all levels of language acquisition, from beginner to advanced, although the level of difficulty of the activities may vary based on language command. This article aims to discuss critical thinking in teaching a foreign language by highlighting first the importance of critical thinking, and then by presenting a series of strategies that help language educators in implementing critical thinking in language classroom.
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION
Motivating students in learning a foreign language can be challenging, but educators can help to ... more Motivating students in learning a foreign language can be challenging, but educators can help to foster student motivation by employing a series of strategies, such as creating a positive and supportive learning environment and building a positive relationship with the students, using a variety of teaching methods, providing regular feedback and recognition for their efforts, using authentic materials, using technology, setting achievable goals, and providing opportunities for student choice and autonomy by encouraging learning outside the classroom. Employing technology in education is becoming a global trend and the majority of students use it in education in general but also in the process of language acquisition. Most scholars view the use of technology as being supportive for the learning environment and as a crucial element in providing a high-quality education, especially for the new generations of students who were born in this digital era and cannot function without technol...
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2021
The health crisis due to the pandemic has greatly changed many aspects of our lives including the... more The health crisis due to the pandemic has greatly changed many aspects of our lives including the way we teach foreign languages. Online teaching has prevailed over the face-to-face one, and educators and learners alike had to adjust to this major shift. This article is meant to provide some of our findings based on our experience while teaching speaking on Moodle online platform. The first part discusses the benefits and the drawbacks of the online environment, then it presents some of the most important aspects of speaking, and in the end, it focuses on the challenges of online teaching while trying to enhance students’ speaking skills. Speaking is one of the most desirable skills because it enables students to communicate effectively, and teaching this ability online has been challenging but also rewarding.
Land Forces Academy Review
In educational systems, teachers focus on the involvement of students in learning and on building... more In educational systems, teachers focus on the involvement of students in learning and on building a solid relationship of trust and collaboration within the foreign language class. To this effect, different methods are consistently used, with clear and adapted learning objectives. The current paper is based on analyses of teaching situations and practices based on the scaffolding method. It discusses strategies used by teachers to improve students’ speaking and writing skills by positioning the concept of scaffolding at the heart of the reflection. Scaffolding, which, basically, involves breaking down large tasks into smaller steps, represents an efficient tool to monitor and guide students to gradually build a linguistic autonomy, and to communicate in writing or orally with little or no help from the teacher.
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION
Multilingualism describes the fact of using several living languages, understanding them, and mas... more Multilingualism describes the fact of using several living languages, understanding them, and mastering their nuances. Languages apprenticeship is long, tedious, but rewarding. Worldwide, 60-75% of the population speaks at least two languages. To be monolingual is to be part of a minority. For the new generations of military leaders, speaking several languages is a huge advantage, socially, professionally and neurologically. After briefly reviewing some scientific data on the advantages of the bilingual brain, the paper discusses how bilingualism positively affects their cognitive development as future Army leaders. Indeed, the obligation to juggle between two languages, the mother tongue and the language learned, offers bilingual people better control of the executive functions of their brain. In other words, the faculties of attention, memory, reasoning developed by learning the language are reinforced. This is an advantage for the military leader, who can thus process each piece ...
Land Forces Academy Review
Most of known past and present societies of the world have been concerned with gender and have es... more Most of known past and present societies of the world have been concerned with gender and have established fixed standards and rules in order to define the identity of a man as dissimilar from that of a woman. These standards and rules have become an integral part of and have shaped the identity of the individuals they have influenced. Since birth men and women are treated differently and are expected to differentiate themselves by means of the clothes they wear, by means of the jobs they choose, by means of the manner in which they use the language.“Starting with the clothes we wear, the spaces we occupy, the jobs we do, and the languages we speak, everything is gendered. This encoding of our daily life and habits directly impacts our sociocultural and economic status in society. (...) Ironically, however, even though people practice gender in their everyday lives they feel awkward talking about it.” (Husting, n.d.). This manner of thinking has given rise to numerous issues that th...
Land Forces Academy Review, 2020
During the past decades scientific research caused major changes in the perception of students’ l... more During the past decades scientific research caused major changes in the perception of students’ learning styles. Empirical findings show that learning styles are neither innate nor unchangeable. On the contrary, students themselves adapt their learning behaviour to the task at hand and aim at trying out different learning styles using their creativity. Therefore, teachers have to plan and propose activities that invite their students to recur to a number of learning strategies. The aim of this paper is to emphasize the importance of the students’ creativity in foreign language acquisition.
Scientific Bulletin, 2021
The present article focuses on Communicative Teaching as an efficient approach to foreign languag... more The present article focuses on Communicative Teaching as an efficient approach to foreign language teaching and learning. Nowadays, the role of the teacher is no longer to offer models to be learnt or descriptions of the foreign language, but mostly to create a climate in the classroom that will enable students to learn by getting involved in activities and working on tasks. Moreover, it is no longer expected that the teacher dominates the whole work in the classroom. Their role is to set up activities and conditions that will enable students to use the foreign language as they have a great interest in the outcome of the tasks. Therefore, the teacher’s success is closely related to their ability to stimulate the students’ interests.
Land Forces Academy Review, 2017
Evaluation is a very complex process, which involves a continuous effort to reduce subjectivity f... more Evaluation is a very complex process, which involves a continuous effort to reduce subjectivity from the evaluation procedure in giving grades, scores, marks, percentages etc. The assessment of the instructional process is a controversial topic due to the human factor involved in this process of valorization of learning outcomes. The issue in question breeds discussions on morality, since the future of the testees depends on the facts of examination and of the factually proved objectivity. Evaluation is therefore a pedagogical concept that transcends the definition of measure and the appreciation of the students’ performance. It refers to the process of determining and assessing learning outcomes by revealing the contribution of each resource in the teaching-learning process. The purpose of this paper is to point out some of the major elements of the evaluation process in the context of enhancing the quality of the educational act.
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2019
The aim of the article is to offer a variety of simple resources to foreign language teachers who... more The aim of the article is to offer a variety of simple resources to foreign language teachers who consider their students’ creativity very important. The activities that we propose apply to all levels of the students and can be adapted to different grammatical structures and vocabulary according to the target students. We undertook research on freewriting in a foreign language class in sophomore cadet groups. At the center of this research, there are students’ products (free texts) and methods used in carrying out the writing activity (writing strategies and solutions for linguistic problems). Since writing has always been a difficult skill and an unpleasant task for most of the students, with this new approach they have found a way of enjoying their own pieces of writing.
Scientific Bulletin, 2019
Nowadays, teaching grammar and lexis to students is undoubtedly necessary but not enough. The new... more Nowadays, teaching grammar and lexis to students is undoubtedly necessary but not enough. The new approaches to language teaching place a great emphasis on developing learners’ communicative competency. Besides the professional skills, essential to a successful career, individuals also need to acquire the communicative competency, which is equally important as it includes various other competencies, such as: linguistic, social, socio-cultural, or strategic competences in order to communicate and interact with each other. Our paper aims at discussing the different ways and methods teachers can use in the language classroom to build and enhance students’ social and strategic competencies.
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2017
This paper highlights the importance of integrating culture in the teaching of foreign languages ... more This paper highlights the importance of integrating culture in the teaching of foreign languages to military students. The first section of the paper offers some basic definitions of culture and key terms associated with it. The next part of the paper brings into discussion the relationship between culture and language acquisition. There is an intimate connection between language and culture; not only language is comprised in the definition of culture, but it also reflects culture, thus we cannot separate language teaching from culture. The final part of the paper focuses on the military students as future leaders that need to develop cross-cultural communication skills and be aware of the cultural differences in order to avoid potential failures during communication with soldiers from foreign militaries in theatres of operation or on other international missions that they are assigned.
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2016
An effective teaching-learning environment is student-centered, student-driven, allowing teachers... more An effective teaching-learning environment is student-centered, student-driven, allowing teachers to meet students’ learning needs and help them make progress in a variety of ways. This paper aims at analyzing some of the cooperative learning methods used to create more flexibly-designed foreign language lessons, where students’ skill levels, educational background, interests and motivation are heterogeneous. It focuses on differentiated instruction strategies, such as team work and jigsaw teaching, as well as on ways of implementing them appropriately and effectively in the foreign language classroom. We will start with an overview of some theoretical contributions and definitions concerning the differentiated instruction and the jigsaw classroom. The study mainly focusses on the jigsaw classroom as an effective technique meant to encourage students to involve in learning activities, interact and share knowledge and information, developing their linguistics, social and problem-solv...
Scientific Bulletin, 2016
The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning foreign lang... more The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning foreign languages has risen sharply among the educational community. Teachers access and implement innovations without always realizing their full implications for them and their students. However, this is not necessarily a negative thing, because if no one used innovations, little progresses would be made and there would be nothing to evaluate. The article presents certain features of ICT that can be used to good advantage in a rich learning environment, and the use of video as an ICT tool in the foreign language class. The paper also discusses the role of the teacher in implementing technologies and we argue that it is the teacher, not the technology who determines the quality of the learning and teaching. There are people who are afraid that the teacher’s role would be compromised if we integrate information communication technologies in education; however we militate for a ‘techno-humanistic’ sy...
Land Forces Academy Review, 2018
Advertising is a tricky business, which constantly becomes the subject of polemics and taboos. Op... more Advertising is a tricky business, which constantly becomes the subject of polemics and taboos. Opinions, whether positive or negative, tend to be very radical, and this can be noticed in the urban landscapes of certain metropolises around the world. The aim of this research is to analyze the nature, purpose, and consequences of outdoor advertising as perceived by the consumer side of the market. Therefore, the focus of the research in this paper is on the degree of acceptance, by consumers, of this communication medium, as well as on how it varies according to geographical location. The analytical methodology used to this effect involves the creation of a questionnaire aiming to collect micro-economic and psychographic data about consumers in three metropolises in different parts of the world. The conclusion of the research is that consumer perception of outdoor advertising is influenced by the geographical location, and its longevity depends on the way it will be carried out in the...
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2021
The health crisis due to the pandemic has greatly changed many aspects of our lives including the... more The health crisis due to the pandemic has greatly changed many aspects of our lives including the way we teach foreign languages. Online teaching has prevailed over the face-to-face one, and educators and learners alike had to adjust to this major shift. This article is meant to provide some of our findings based on our experience while teaching speaking on Moodle online platform. The first part discusses the benefits and the drawbacks of the online environment, then it presents some of the most important aspects of speaking, and in the end, it focuses on the challenges of online teaching while trying to enhance students’ speaking skills. Speaking is one of the most desirable skills because it enables students to communicate effectively, and teaching this ability online has been challenging but also rewarding.
Language is a great source of power for advertising linguistic creativity is at its ease, the wor... more Language is a great source of power for advertising linguistic creativity is at its ease, the words are very carefully chosen to create something unique, surprising and memorable in order to achieve a significant impact on the audience. Advertising uses different linguistic techniques at different levels to be persuasive: phonetic, lexical and morphological, semantic and pragmatic. However, when analyzing language in use in real situations, the boundaries between the levels of the language are blurry, but for the aims of this article we will focus on the sounds and allographs together with the pictures that accompany them.
Frontiers in psychology, Apr 8, 2024
Introduction: Although the majority of adoptive families remain stable, some of them break up pre... more Introduction: Although the majority of adoptive families remain stable, some of them break up prematurely. Methods: Adopting a qualitative approach, this study gave voice to seven adoption applicants who began the adoption journey with one or more children but did not complete the legal process. Our goal was to understand their experiences throughout the adoption process and disruption. Results: The results show how adoption applicants went, in a short period, from the excitement of finding a child or sibling group to disillusionment and trauma. The main risk factors that hinder adoption stability include unrealistic expectations, intuitive choice of the child in the absence of accurate information, challenges posed by the child's particular characteristics, and lack of professional support. Discussion: Our study highlights the need for adopters to be assisted throughout the entire process by specialists, to be better prepared to deal with the complex needs of children in the protection system, and to facilitate their access to a complex of specialized services to meet the different needs of every family.
Revista Academiei Forţelor Terestre, Nov 30, 2023
The ability to think and make proper conclusions independently is referred to as critical thinkin... more The ability to think and make proper conclusions independently is referred to as critical thinking. Because of its prominence in teaching a foreign language, fostering critical thinking in students is now regarded as one of the objectives of foreign language educators. Critical thinking is a continuously evolving endeavor that values reading, investigating, and analyzing current events. Strategies to promote critical thinking in language learning may be adopted at all levels of language acquisition, from beginner to advanced, although the level of difficulty of the activities may vary based on language command. This article aims to discuss critical thinking in teaching a foreign language by highlighting first the importance of critical thinking, and then by presenting a series of strategies that help language educators in implementing critical thinking in language classroom.
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION
Motivating students in learning a foreign language can be challenging, but educators can help to ... more Motivating students in learning a foreign language can be challenging, but educators can help to foster student motivation by employing a series of strategies, such as creating a positive and supportive learning environment and building a positive relationship with the students, using a variety of teaching methods, providing regular feedback and recognition for their efforts, using authentic materials, using technology, setting achievable goals, and providing opportunities for student choice and autonomy by encouraging learning outside the classroom. Employing technology in education is becoming a global trend and the majority of students use it in education in general but also in the process of language acquisition. Most scholars view the use of technology as being supportive for the learning environment and as a crucial element in providing a high-quality education, especially for the new generations of students who were born in this digital era and cannot function without technol...
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2021
The health crisis due to the pandemic has greatly changed many aspects of our lives including the... more The health crisis due to the pandemic has greatly changed many aspects of our lives including the way we teach foreign languages. Online teaching has prevailed over the face-to-face one, and educators and learners alike had to adjust to this major shift. This article is meant to provide some of our findings based on our experience while teaching speaking on Moodle online platform. The first part discusses the benefits and the drawbacks of the online environment, then it presents some of the most important aspects of speaking, and in the end, it focuses on the challenges of online teaching while trying to enhance students’ speaking skills. Speaking is one of the most desirable skills because it enables students to communicate effectively, and teaching this ability online has been challenging but also rewarding.
Land Forces Academy Review
In educational systems, teachers focus on the involvement of students in learning and on building... more In educational systems, teachers focus on the involvement of students in learning and on building a solid relationship of trust and collaboration within the foreign language class. To this effect, different methods are consistently used, with clear and adapted learning objectives. The current paper is based on analyses of teaching situations and practices based on the scaffolding method. It discusses strategies used by teachers to improve students’ speaking and writing skills by positioning the concept of scaffolding at the heart of the reflection. Scaffolding, which, basically, involves breaking down large tasks into smaller steps, represents an efficient tool to monitor and guide students to gradually build a linguistic autonomy, and to communicate in writing or orally with little or no help from the teacher.
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION
Multilingualism describes the fact of using several living languages, understanding them, and mas... more Multilingualism describes the fact of using several living languages, understanding them, and mastering their nuances. Languages apprenticeship is long, tedious, but rewarding. Worldwide, 60-75% of the population speaks at least two languages. To be monolingual is to be part of a minority. For the new generations of military leaders, speaking several languages is a huge advantage, socially, professionally and neurologically. After briefly reviewing some scientific data on the advantages of the bilingual brain, the paper discusses how bilingualism positively affects their cognitive development as future Army leaders. Indeed, the obligation to juggle between two languages, the mother tongue and the language learned, offers bilingual people better control of the executive functions of their brain. In other words, the faculties of attention, memory, reasoning developed by learning the language are reinforced. This is an advantage for the military leader, who can thus process each piece ...
Land Forces Academy Review
Most of known past and present societies of the world have been concerned with gender and have es... more Most of known past and present societies of the world have been concerned with gender and have established fixed standards and rules in order to define the identity of a man as dissimilar from that of a woman. These standards and rules have become an integral part of and have shaped the identity of the individuals they have influenced. Since birth men and women are treated differently and are expected to differentiate themselves by means of the clothes they wear, by means of the jobs they choose, by means of the manner in which they use the language.“Starting with the clothes we wear, the spaces we occupy, the jobs we do, and the languages we speak, everything is gendered. This encoding of our daily life and habits directly impacts our sociocultural and economic status in society. (...) Ironically, however, even though people practice gender in their everyday lives they feel awkward talking about it.” (Husting, n.d.). This manner of thinking has given rise to numerous issues that th...
Land Forces Academy Review, 2020
During the past decades scientific research caused major changes in the perception of students’ l... more During the past decades scientific research caused major changes in the perception of students’ learning styles. Empirical findings show that learning styles are neither innate nor unchangeable. On the contrary, students themselves adapt their learning behaviour to the task at hand and aim at trying out different learning styles using their creativity. Therefore, teachers have to plan and propose activities that invite their students to recur to a number of learning strategies. The aim of this paper is to emphasize the importance of the students’ creativity in foreign language acquisition.
Scientific Bulletin, 2021
The present article focuses on Communicative Teaching as an efficient approach to foreign languag... more The present article focuses on Communicative Teaching as an efficient approach to foreign language teaching and learning. Nowadays, the role of the teacher is no longer to offer models to be learnt or descriptions of the foreign language, but mostly to create a climate in the classroom that will enable students to learn by getting involved in activities and working on tasks. Moreover, it is no longer expected that the teacher dominates the whole work in the classroom. Their role is to set up activities and conditions that will enable students to use the foreign language as they have a great interest in the outcome of the tasks. Therefore, the teacher’s success is closely related to their ability to stimulate the students’ interests.
Land Forces Academy Review, 2017
Evaluation is a very complex process, which involves a continuous effort to reduce subjectivity f... more Evaluation is a very complex process, which involves a continuous effort to reduce subjectivity from the evaluation procedure in giving grades, scores, marks, percentages etc. The assessment of the instructional process is a controversial topic due to the human factor involved in this process of valorization of learning outcomes. The issue in question breeds discussions on morality, since the future of the testees depends on the facts of examination and of the factually proved objectivity. Evaluation is therefore a pedagogical concept that transcends the definition of measure and the appreciation of the students’ performance. It refers to the process of determining and assessing learning outcomes by revealing the contribution of each resource in the teaching-learning process. The purpose of this paper is to point out some of the major elements of the evaluation process in the context of enhancing the quality of the educational act.
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2019
The aim of the article is to offer a variety of simple resources to foreign language teachers who... more The aim of the article is to offer a variety of simple resources to foreign language teachers who consider their students’ creativity very important. The activities that we propose apply to all levels of the students and can be adapted to different grammatical structures and vocabulary according to the target students. We undertook research on freewriting in a foreign language class in sophomore cadet groups. At the center of this research, there are students’ products (free texts) and methods used in carrying out the writing activity (writing strategies and solutions for linguistic problems). Since writing has always been a difficult skill and an unpleasant task for most of the students, with this new approach they have found a way of enjoying their own pieces of writing.
Scientific Bulletin, 2019
Nowadays, teaching grammar and lexis to students is undoubtedly necessary but not enough. The new... more Nowadays, teaching grammar and lexis to students is undoubtedly necessary but not enough. The new approaches to language teaching place a great emphasis on developing learners’ communicative competency. Besides the professional skills, essential to a successful career, individuals also need to acquire the communicative competency, which is equally important as it includes various other competencies, such as: linguistic, social, socio-cultural, or strategic competences in order to communicate and interact with each other. Our paper aims at discussing the different ways and methods teachers can use in the language classroom to build and enhance students’ social and strategic competencies.
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2017
This paper highlights the importance of integrating culture in the teaching of foreign languages ... more This paper highlights the importance of integrating culture in the teaching of foreign languages to military students. The first section of the paper offers some basic definitions of culture and key terms associated with it. The next part of the paper brings into discussion the relationship between culture and language acquisition. There is an intimate connection between language and culture; not only language is comprised in the definition of culture, but it also reflects culture, thus we cannot separate language teaching from culture. The final part of the paper focuses on the military students as future leaders that need to develop cross-cultural communication skills and be aware of the cultural differences in order to avoid potential failures during communication with soldiers from foreign militaries in theatres of operation or on other international missions that they are assigned.
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2016
An effective teaching-learning environment is student-centered, student-driven, allowing teachers... more An effective teaching-learning environment is student-centered, student-driven, allowing teachers to meet students’ learning needs and help them make progress in a variety of ways. This paper aims at analyzing some of the cooperative learning methods used to create more flexibly-designed foreign language lessons, where students’ skill levels, educational background, interests and motivation are heterogeneous. It focuses on differentiated instruction strategies, such as team work and jigsaw teaching, as well as on ways of implementing them appropriately and effectively in the foreign language classroom. We will start with an overview of some theoretical contributions and definitions concerning the differentiated instruction and the jigsaw classroom. The study mainly focusses on the jigsaw classroom as an effective technique meant to encourage students to involve in learning activities, interact and share knowledge and information, developing their linguistics, social and problem-solv...
Scientific Bulletin, 2016
The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning foreign lang... more The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning foreign languages has risen sharply among the educational community. Teachers access and implement innovations without always realizing their full implications for them and their students. However, this is not necessarily a negative thing, because if no one used innovations, little progresses would be made and there would be nothing to evaluate. The article presents certain features of ICT that can be used to good advantage in a rich learning environment, and the use of video as an ICT tool in the foreign language class. The paper also discusses the role of the teacher in implementing technologies and we argue that it is the teacher, not the technology who determines the quality of the learning and teaching. There are people who are afraid that the teacher’s role would be compromised if we integrate information communication technologies in education; however we militate for a ‘techno-humanistic’ sy...
Land Forces Academy Review, 2018
Advertising is a tricky business, which constantly becomes the subject of polemics and taboos. Op... more Advertising is a tricky business, which constantly becomes the subject of polemics and taboos. Opinions, whether positive or negative, tend to be very radical, and this can be noticed in the urban landscapes of certain metropolises around the world. The aim of this research is to analyze the nature, purpose, and consequences of outdoor advertising as perceived by the consumer side of the market. Therefore, the focus of the research in this paper is on the degree of acceptance, by consumers, of this communication medium, as well as on how it varies according to geographical location. The analytical methodology used to this effect involves the creation of a questionnaire aiming to collect micro-economic and psychographic data about consumers in three metropolises in different parts of the world. The conclusion of the research is that consumer perception of outdoor advertising is influenced by the geographical location, and its longevity depends on the way it will be carried out in the...
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2021
The health crisis due to the pandemic has greatly changed many aspects of our lives including the... more The health crisis due to the pandemic has greatly changed many aspects of our lives including the way we teach foreign languages. Online teaching has prevailed over the face-to-face one, and educators and learners alike had to adjust to this major shift. This article is meant to provide some of our findings based on our experience while teaching speaking on Moodle online platform. The first part discusses the benefits and the drawbacks of the online environment, then it presents some of the most important aspects of speaking, and in the end, it focuses on the challenges of online teaching while trying to enhance students’ speaking skills. Speaking is one of the most desirable skills because it enables students to communicate effectively, and teaching this ability online has been challenging but also rewarding.
Language is a great source of power for advertising linguistic creativity is at its ease, the wor... more Language is a great source of power for advertising linguistic creativity is at its ease, the words are very carefully chosen to create something unique, surprising and memorable in order to achieve a significant impact on the audience. Advertising uses different linguistic techniques at different levels to be persuasive: phonetic, lexical and morphological, semantic and pragmatic. However, when analyzing language in use in real situations, the boundaries between the levels of the language are blurry, but for the aims of this article we will focus on the sounds and allographs together with the pictures that accompany them.