Needs assessment is regarded as a powerful tool for addressing the needs program, and various other purposes including strategic planning resource allocation, priority setting, improving course of an ongoing program. As such, it portrayed ideal necessary step in policymaking. On hand, however, there are some growing concerns about actual practice which believed by many to be prejudicing perform...

adopting the critical discourse analysis framework, in general, andfairclough’s (1989) critical text analysis, in particular, the current study aims atexamining 3 aspects of meaning, namely social relations, subject positions, andcontents in the conversation as well as vocabulary and grammar parts of passages 1(an american textbook) and first certificate (a british textbook) to find out whether...

this study aims at investigating the linguistic representation of male and female social actors in the four corners 4 textbook, drawing on cda. more specifically, van leeuwen’s (1996) framework, which highlights the connection of linguistic and social practices, is used as the analytical framework to examine gendered social actors in this english language teaching (elt) textbook. to this end, c...

This “work in progress” paper presents the results of a study conducted in Belgium, proposing the deployment of a virtual campus through a call for tenders selecting SMEs and organizations to be trained and accompanied in the development of their own distributed learning project. From the needs analysis, an important focus on quality all along the process will control the decisions, actions, pl...

Hemanta Saikia Globalization of Indian economy and fast and large industrialization questioned the sustainability and endurance of small scale industries (SSIs) from 1991. In this regard productivity and performance is remaining an issue that needs analysis for their development. However economic underdevelopment is remain a problem for the development of small scale industries. In this paper a...