TABLE OF CONTENTS
Azamat AKBAROV and Eldin MILAK
English language teaching between the east and the west: cultural underpinnings of language teaching in the Balkans and beyond.........................................................................................................................................p.7
Senad BEĆIROVIĆ and Remzija HURIĆ – BEĆIROVIĆ
The role of age in students’ motivation and achievement in learning English as a second language …….p.23
Mădălina CERBAN
The logico-semantic relation of expansion from a functional perspective in scientific texts ………....….....p.37
Rodica-Gabriela CHIRA
On Basarab Nicolescu’s “poetical theorems” or how to metaphorically explain science through poetry...p.51
Valentina COJOCARU, Ramona-Cătălina CORBEANU and Anabella-Gloria NICULESCU-GORPIN
Is ‘homeschooling’ necessary in Romanian? …………………...…………...........................................................p.65
Elvireanu SONIA
Le rôle de la mission universitaire française en Transylvanie dans l’entre-deux-guerres …..………..….…..p.79
Zhivka ILIEVA
Analysis of texts for children: lexical approach for young learners..................................................................p.93
Minh-Ha LO-CICERO
Étude contrastive lexico-sémantique, morphosyntaxique, et pragmatique, portugais - français du proverbe et de l’expression figée en contexte........................................................................................................................p.121
Paulo OSÓRIO
A expansão da língua portuguesa: dados diacrónicos e de política linguística…..........................................p.139
Teodora POPESCU
Metaphorical conceptualisations of MONEY in Romanian and British business press………………..…...…p.153
Tomasz RÓG
Linguistic and intercultural gains of living and studying abroad – an individual trajectory of a Polish student in the UK….............................................................................................................................................................p.175
BOOK REVIEWS
Crina HERTEG
Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron, and Marilda C. Cavalcanti (Eds.) Confronting metaphor in use. An applied linguistic approach. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2008. Pp. vii-315. ISBN 978-90-272-5417-7....................................................................................................................................................................p.187
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS……………………………………….....................……............................................p.193
EDITORIAL PROCEDURE………………………………………..........……….............................................p.201
