September 2009

Development of prayer in adolescence and youth

  The study was designed to address the following research question: what does the development of prayer look like in adolescent and youth? The study presented the specifics of prayer from adolescence to early adulthood. At every stage prayer takes on a different form; however the same characteristics can appear in neighbouring or more distant phases. Features signifying more mature religiousness can disappear...

Author(s): MaÅ‚gorzata Tatala

September 2009

Interference of first language in the acquisition of second language

  This review paper focused on the issue of language acquisition and the interference created by first language (L1) on the learning of second language (L2). Efforts were made to find out the factors that play a major role in this dysfunction of language acquisition. Further, what type of standardized measures or training should be employed, so that an individual’s weak performance would be...

Author(s): Avanika Sinha, Niroj Banerjee, Ambalika Sinha and Rajesh Kumar Shastri