Authentic Texts in Teaching English

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تحقیق حاضر به منظور بررسی کارآیی بین دو روش تدریس زبان انگلیسی با اهداف دانشگاهی به نامهای تدریس گروهی و تدریس انفرادی انجام شد. بدین منظور، سه کلاس انگلیسی با اهداف دانشگاهی مربوط به دانشجویان رشته جغرافیا، کامپیوتر و فقه و حقوق به روش گروهی توسط یک مدرس زبان انگلیسی و یک مدرس درس تخصصی در استان یزد در طول ترم پاییز سال تحصیلی 1390-1389 تدریس گردید. همزمان، سه کلاس زبان انگلیسی دیگر با اهداف د...

Authentic or not? A Case Study on the Role of Authenticity in English Language Teaching in Iran

The present article arises from a three-year cross sectional investigation into English Language Teaching (ELT) in secondary schools in Iran and the role of Communicative Pedagogy within this. The study has examined the extent of communicative pedagogy within the Iranian national ELT curriculum, the ELT programme and to some extent the English language coursebooks used in secondary schools. Wha...

Enhancing Authentic Texts for Language Learners

Paraphrasing Controlled English Texts

We discuss paraphrasing controlled English texts, by defining two fragments of Attempto Controlled English (ACE): Core ACE and NP ACE. We show that these fragments have features that one would usually expect from paraphrases. We also describe a tool that paraphrases ACE sentences into these fragments.

What Does Multimodality Mean for English? Creative Tensions in Teaching New Texts and New Literacies

The argument for a pedagogy which embraces visual and multimodal representation is well established in academic circles (New London Group 1996, Kress and Van Leeuwen 1996, Cope and Kalantzis 2000) and a plethora of literacies congregate around the everexpanding subject English, as the prime site for innovation and development. However, the implications for current classroom practice are still e...