The field of ELT is constantly witnessing the introduction of new instructional approaches: one such perhaps recent initiative is critical discourse analysis (CDA). Accordingly, the present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of CDA instruction on Iranian EFL learners’ descriptive and argumentative writing ability. To fulfill the aforementioned purpose, a sample TOEFL was primarily p...

The World-Wide Web is growing quickly and being applied to many new types of communications. As a basis for studying organizational communications, Yates and Orlikowski (1992; Orlikowski and Yates, 1994) proposed using genres. They defined genres as "typified communicative actions characterized by similar substance and form and taken in response to recurrent situations" (Yates and Orlikowski, 1...

Improving the public understanding of science is an important challenge for the future professional scientists who are our current undergraduates. In this paper, we present a conceptual model that explores the role of mass media as community gatekeepers of new scientific findings. This model frames the benefits for undergraduate science students to learn about media genres so that they can lear...

Poronnik, Philip, and Roger W. Moni. The Opinion Editorial: teaching physiology outside the box. Adv Physiol Educ 30: 73–82, 2006; doi:10.1152/advan.00075.2005.—Improving the public understanding of science is an important challenge for the future professional scientists who are our current undergraduates. In this paper, we present a conceptual model that explores the role of mass media as comm...

Characters are considered central to works of fiction and essential to our enjoyment of them. We conducted an exploratory study to examine whether the ability to sketch engaging fictional characters is influenced by a writer’s attributes. Samples of 93 Creative Writers and 114 Non-Writers generated character descriptions based on a portrait photograph. We measured Participants' experiences with...

Abstract This introductory article examines early modern letter-writing in its ambiguous state between private and public communication by providing a few historical systematic perspectives. From point of view, it can be shown how several humanists tried to outline some characteristics the letter with regard traditional distinction speech conversation. The new opportunities marked printing pres...

For many years, language documentation has merely been regarded as a primary ‘invisible’ stage of grammar writing; the results of language documentation itself, i.e. transcribed and annotated texts, often remained unpublished. In the last decade, the importance of language documentation as such has been finally recognized by the international community of linguists. As a result, not only the qu...