Slovak education, including foreign language education, is going through curricular reform. Even though the development of intercultural communicative competences is claimed to be one of the key aims of foreign language teaching, recent research suggests that most teaching time is devoted to the development of grammatical and vocabulary skills, and that it is often difficult to convince English teachers that the teaching of culture ought to be a primary goal. From her own first hand experi...

The topic of English language education for pupils with general intellectual giftedness is rare in worldwide research areas. Even though research into English language education receives great attention and similarly does gifted education, the connection is not very common. The aim of this research study is to investigate the state of, and current challenges to, English language teaching in gifted education. Multiple methods (participant observation, interview and survey) were used under t...

Matt Ortega is good at covering things up: colleague, friend or … more?Emma Johnson is a communications assistant at Carter Corporation. One evening, she reveals herself to her very attractive partner, Matt, a hazel-eyed graphic designer. He lends her an attentive ear, and she ends up falling under his spell.But this one blows hot and cold. The next day, he ignores her. In addition, many mysteries surround him: a troubled past, an evil twin named Daryl, and what hides this ...

The Secret History meets Ready Player One in #1 bestselling author Ava Reid’s brand new, thrilling alternate-future duology, where four teens are recruited to a century-long, virtual Cold War until they discover the truth and decide to fight back.The top students at Valeran Academy should be in jail. Instead, they were offered a way out: enroll and pledge themselves to the nation. In their alternate future where the Cold War still...

The Secret History meets The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in #1 bestselling author Ava Reid’s brand new, thrilling, dystopian YA novel.There is no application process for Valeran Academy, but it boasts the brightest – and precociously criminal – students in the nation.A disgraced politician from a powerful American dynasty.A coldly brilliant strategist who will sacrifice anything to win.A former pagean...