Secondary students must master not only grammar and text organization, but also pragmatic competence in the target language order to achieve communication competence. The ability express meaning beyond rules is referred as Teachers should provide materials that are appropriate for both learning goals needs of students. This study aimed determine types textbooks teachers require. It was a mixed-...

Evaluating a bilingual education program in Spain: the impact beyond foreign language learning* We evaluate a program that introduced bilingual education in English and Spanish in primary education in some public schools of the Madrid region in 2004. Under this program students not only study English as a foreign language but also some subjects (at least Science, History and Geography) are taug...

One prominent criterion to achieve efficient learning and instruction in an educational setting is the appropriate material(s) specifically developed for that particular group of learners, particularly in an English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) context. This study aimed at developing new EOP materials for pre-service cabin crew in an aviation school. To do so, initially the researchers perfo...

This research was aimed to know about moral values in the textbook. Textbooks were analyzed by using critical discourse analysis (CDA) data obtained through analyzing whole texts. study attempts examined which appeared English textbook "When Rings a Bell" for seventh of Junior high school or equivalent based on curriculum and presidential decree teach character education students, included 18 d...

Despite the substantial growth of private schooling in developing countries in the past three decades, there has been little attention paid to the question of how public schools are experiencing and responding to competition in these contexts. To address this research gap, I conduct a competitionfocused analysis using primary survey data collected from two districts with high private school mar...

This modern, self-contained, textbook explains the fundamental algorithms of digital image processing through practical examples and complete Java implementations. Available for the first time in English, Digital Image Processing is the definitive textbook for students, researchers, and professionals in search of critical analysis and modern implementations of the most important algorithms in t...

Abstract The aim of the study was to find out what extent low socio-economic status (SES) children enrolled in government-run primary schools Hyderabad are ready receive instruction through medium English (English [EMI]). To this end we investigated children’s oral vocabulary skills, lexical complexity their textbooks, as well amount input they class. A subsample 90 from school Grades 4 and 5 w...