"Blaze Koneski" Faculty of Philology
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Item type:Publication, AMBIGUOUS POSITION TOWARDS THE SOCIALIST PAST IN FILIPOVSKA’S NOVEL IDOL ON THE WALL(University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, 2026-06-29)The form of socialism introduced in Yugoslavia after the Second World War under Josip Broz Tito is still being discussed from many contrasting viewpoints in the territory of former Yugoslavia. In the context of such discussions, Elena Filipovska published the novel Идол на ѕидот (Idol on the Wall, 2020). The story is set in modern-day Skopje, but in an alternative history in which Yugoslavia did not disintegrate. Instead, a third marshal leads the country, continuing and transforming the socialist rule into an increasingly dehumanized variant. This article explores how the novel constructs a dystopia, which both resembles life in the past, specifically in the 1970s and 1980s, and is based on familiar tropes in dystopian fiction: removal of children from their parents’ care to be raised by the state, fear of being followed by the government intelligence service, and nationalization of private property. The novel has mainly been discussed as criticism of the socialist system. I argue, however, that the ideas expressed through the narrative are much more ambiguous, and that rather than being critical, the novel assumes a more complex position toward socialist legacy. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, ANGLICISMS IN THE MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE DIRECT BORROWINGS VS LOAN TRANSLATIONS(University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, 2025-12-11)Abstract The significant influx of Anglicisms into the Macedonian language has become an undeniable linguistic phenomenon. Anglicisms appear in various domains such as information technology, law, business, social welfare and science. They reflect the influence of English over Macedonian as well as the interest of the Macedonian society. The analysis is qualitative and it is based on a randomly collected corpus of 300 Anglicisms that appear in the Macedonian language from the beginning of the 21st century. The research, first, focuses on the identification and classification of visible Anglicisms and criteria that verify their visibility, and then it contrasts them with the loan translations. The study also examines the patterns of borrowing Anglicisms into Macedonian, focusing on the distinction between direct lexical borrowings and calques or loan translations. It aims to determine why certain English expressions are directly incorporated into the Macedonian language, while others are translated part by part, sometimes coexisting with their original English forms. Certain tendencies are noted, based on the analysis, which indicate that socio-cultural factors play more significant role than linguistic circumstances when establishing the predictable patterns of borrowing. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Beliefs About Translator Competence and Training Practices: Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives.(University of Nis, 2025); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Rise of Invisible Anglicisms: The Case of the Macedonian Language.(University of Torino, 2026-01-02); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, A Corpus-Informed Study of Corporate Jargon Trends (2016–2024) and Pedagogical Implications for Teaching Corporate English in ESP Contexts(University of Ljubljana, 2026); This paper examines whether corporate English became more buzzword-heavy between 2016 and 2024 and how the findings can inform university ESP courses, especially Business English. Using a fully public corpus of annual report shareholder letters and regulatory filings from the time frame of 2016–2024, the study applies corpus-assisted close reading to track recurring buzzword packages, lexical bundles, collocational patterns, and shifts in abstraction and agency. The results show that investor-facing narrative sections increasingly rely on era-framing labels and layered noun phrases that compress meaning and promote strategic alignment, while regulatory disclosures remain more operationally concrete but still admit selective buzzword insertion. Pedagogically, the patterns support teaching corporate phraseology (terminology) through concordance-style noticing, collocation mapping, genre sensitive rewriting, and unbundling tasks that convert abstract bundles into accountable, reader-oriented plain language. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, A corpus-based study of the English light verb constructions with give denoting bodily actions and physical interaction(Walter De Gruyter, 2025)Stojanovska-Ilievska, Natasha - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, BALANCING WRITTEN AND AUDIO PEER FEEDBACK IN ACADEMIC WRITING: STUDENT EXPERIENCES WITH PADLET(2025)Stojanovska-Ilievska, NatashaThis article explores Macedonian university students’ reflections and preferences regarding online peer feedback in academic writing, with a focus on three key factors: the feedback mode (written vs. audio), the students’ role in the process (giver vs. recipient), and the writing task type (essay outline vs. fully developed draft). The study was conducted among second-year undergraduates enrolled in an academic writing course that integrated Padlet as a peer review platform. The data were collected through an online questionnaire that examined how students experienced giving and receiving feedback in both written and audio formats across different stages of writing. The study revealed that most students valued participating in feedback sessions across different modalities, although some of them reported feeling less confident when recording and posting their audio comments. Written feedback was preferred for the full drafts, while audio feedback was preferred for the essay outlines. The thematic analysis highlighted that written feedback was associated with comfort, easier navigation, and clarity, while audio feedback was valued for its spontaneity and the non-verbal communicative cues conveyed through the human voice. These findings underscore the importance of offering students diverse peer-review formats so as to encourage more effective peer feedback practices in academic writing instruction. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, MACEDONIAN STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TO ENGLISH: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ACROSS REGIONS(2025)Stojanovska-Ilievska, NatashaThis study explores Macedonian students’ attitudes to English across three contexts: Skopje, other urban centres, and rural communities. Data were gathered through a questionnaire designed to elicit students’ perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of English in their everyday lives. Responses were subjected to a thematic coding analysis, and combined qualitative insights with quantitative frequency counts. Five broad themes were identified: knowledge and cognitive development, communication and social connectivity, mobility and practical advantages, access to information and opportunities, and identity and language preservation. English was overwhelmingly perceived as a valuable resource, with identity and language preservation and communication and social connectivity being the predominant themes across the three contexts. Regional variation revealed subtle differences: students from rural areas valued communication and social connectivity most, students from Skopje areas were most concerned about identity and language preservation issues, while students from other towns balanced both of these concepts. These findings underscore the dual role of English, both as a gateway to global developments and as a perceived threat to local identity, pointing to the need for language policies that foster both English proficiency and Macedonian language maintenance. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, SLT and CLL in the ELT Classroom: Revisited(Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd, 2025-07)What is the continuing influence of Situational Language Teaching (SLT) and Community Language Learning (CLL) in the modern ELT classroom and how do they connect to second language acquisition (SLA) theories? Where SLT strongly emphasises oral practice, grammar and sentence patterns, CLL offers specific techniques based on counselling rather than a method in its own right. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Collocations in Context(Pilgrims, 2025-08)Collocations, i.e. lexical word combinations that co-occur more frequently than chance, are central to Business English pedagogy. In a university economics context (B2–C1), mastery of field-specific collocations supports authentic professional communication and reflects corpus-informed course materials. Explicit collocation work builds collocational competence by sensitizing learners to acceptable word partnerships, reducing L1-influenced mis-collocations, and strengthening mental lexicons through chunk learning. A reading-and-glossing homework task illustrates how noticing collocations in context can boost receptive knowledge, encourage dictionary use, and promote learner autonomy.