Consciousness-raising in animal welfare through practical experience with horses

Exploring Impacts of Consciousness-raising in a Genre-based Pedagogy

This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...

Consciousness-Raising Through Written Corrective Feedback: The Case of Marked Third Person -s

This study examined and compared the effects of consciousness-raisingwritten corrective feedback in 2 newly-developed levels in terms of marked thirdperson -s acquisition. Nine elementary level intact classes, including 191 malelanguage learners within the age range of 11-14 at Iran Language Institute, weretaken as the participants. Relying on the participants’ placement test results,previous t...

EFL Teachers’ Identity Construction through a Reflection Consciousness-Raising Interactive Workshop

As part of a large-scale project, the current qualitative study investigated the possible contribution of a consciousness-raising interactive workshop (as a form of professional development activity) to 30) 22 female and 8 male) Iranian EFL teachers’ professional identity construction. Thirty Iranian EFL teachers were asked to write two reflective journals (one individually and one collectively...

Editorial: Improving Animal Welfare through Genetic Selection

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicts that the projected massive global increase in demand for livestock products will continue for several decades. According to Delgado et al. (1999), it is appropriate to term the course of these events a " Livestock Revolution, " which, as opposed to the Green Revolution, is driven by demand. While more precise production techno...

What is animal welfare? Common definitions and their practical consequences.