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Abstracts generally summarize key points of research studies, and as such, their main purpose is to attract the attention of potential readers. Thus, they should be well-written, concise, clear, and informative. This paper aims to provide basic guidelines for writing a good abstract in English, focusing mainly on linguistic aspects. Also, the paper addresses some common abstract-writing mistakes resulting from Serbian-English language differences that are usually overlooked or unrecognized by Serbian authors and available proofreading tools. The examples come from a corpus of 71 abstracts written in English by Serbian authors for the 11th International Scientific Conference Special Education and Rehabilitation Today in 2021. They illustrate some frequent errors, ways to correct them, and suggestions on how to achieve greater clarity and coherence in English sentences. Both versions (before and after the proofreading process) were analyzed. It was observed that sentences and structures in English abstracts were significantly affected by the rules, sentence patterns, and flexibility of the Serbian language.

The subject of this paper is identifying the most common students‘ mistakes in teaching lessons of the Serbian Language which are a part of the exam for the academic course Professional Methodological Practice of Teaching Serbian Language at the Faculty of Philososphy in Niš. By analyzing the data obtained by observing the lessons taught by the students of the Serbian Language at the Faculty of Philososphy in Niš during the four-year period (2015/16 to 2018/19), the authors found and analyzed typical errors, classifying them into six categories: errors in methodological lesson management, ignoring teaching principles, a lack of the required class structure, an incorrect application of teaching methods, incorrect application of teaching and technical aids, and an unbalanced behaviour towards students. As there has been no paper dealing with a similar topic so far, this research should be instructive for students, in terms of offering them guidelines for organizing and taking these exams and state teaching license exams. The obtained results are indicative of the complexity of teaching theory (developmental and pedagogical psychology and didactics) that should be linked to academic disciplines (linguistics, theory of literature, and the art of literature) in the process of methodological design of the lessons of Serbian language and Literature.

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