Seeing Language: Using Non-fiction to Teach Students About Language

the relationship between locus of control and iranian efl university students’ beliefs about language learning

this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

Using NaviTexte to teach French as a second language

In this article we present a language, which models ways of visualizing and navigating in texts, together with its implementation in a workstation, NaviTexte. We show how this implementation demands a text model, for which we therefore propose a linguistic description. Finally we show how the language can be used to build an application in text linguistics. This application aims to teach foreig...

Using an Imperative Language to Teach Applicative Methods

Many universities teach traditional, imperative languages in their introductory programming courses, even though an applicative language may be preferable. In this paper, we present a compromise and show how applicative programming methods may be illustrated eeectively using a subset of Pascal. The approach focuses on order of evaluation, the if statement, functions, and recursion. We discuss s...

Beliefs about Non-Native Teachers in English as an International Language: A Positioning Analysis of Iranian Language Teachers’ Voices

The unprecedented growth of English and arrival of English as an International Language (EIL) has generated a new fledged argument about English language teachers’ role and status around the world. To date, much of the debate on the native/non-native distinction in EIL settings and factors contributing to sharpen distinctions has remained unsettled. This gap motivated this study on the English ...