The paper deals with a stylistic figure «oxymoron» which expresses polar contradiction of concepts. Sematic and pragmatic properties this device have been described. Semantically, simple complicated (metaphoric) types oxymoron may be singled out. Simple oxymorons include occasional units made by combinations affixes or roots contradictory meanings in compound words. Standard attributive nominal...

Humans communicate using language, but they also communicate using gesture - spontaneous movements of the hands and body that universally accompany speech. Gestures can be distinguished from other movements, segmented, and assigned meaning based on their forms and functions. Moreover, gestures systematically integrate with language at all levels of linguistic structure, as evidenced in both pro...

in recent years, the teaching of grammar and the importance attached to it has become a bone of contention among language teaching professionals. the emergence of the communicative approach (ca) in second or foreign language teaching has been one of the most important factors leading to this controversy. since the advent of ca in the second half of the 1970's grammar which had always occup...

The article examines the motivational aspect of high school students’ mastery German language, namely such a type internal motivation as communicative motivation. reform education system determined choice communicatively oriented learning dominant form education, since interest in foreign language is constantly growing. Attention focused on fact that can be used not only for communication and r...

76 This (the second of two articles) looks at some of the pedagogical aspects of the Communicative Approach, including the idea of a 'semantic syllabus' and the question of 'authenticity' in materials and methodology. It is argued that the Communicative Approach generally presents an over-simplified and misleading account of these issues, and that a sensible approach to language teaching involv...

The popularity of use-of-language testing seems to have been growing dramatically, in recent years, particularly where second language learners are involved ; and the term 'communicative testing' appears to have become a battle cry for all that is 'progressive' . By espousing communicative testing, the impression is given that one can throw off at a stroke the shackles of test irrelevance and a...