Language and culture are now deemed to be co-constitutive; hence English language teaching (ELT) textbooks should incorporate cultural aspects and promote intercultural competence. However, careful decisions should be made as regards to the cultural content of materials and the ways in which culture is represented. This study was an attempt to deconstruct the patterns of cultural representation...

Fisheries management requires detailed catch time series. Thus, the effectiveness of countries’ reporting system can be, in part, evaluated by the taxonomic resolution of the data they submit to annually to Food and Agriculture of the United Nation (FAO). However, the fish and invertebrate faunas in the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of these countries differ widely, as do the species that are...

Speaker accent is an important issue in the formulation of robust speaker independent recognition systems. Knowledge gained from a reliable accent classification approach could improve overall recognition performance. In this paper, a new algorithm is proposed for foreign accent classification of American English. A series of experimental studies are considered which focus on establishing how s...

A number of different researchers have reported a substantial degree of variability in how American English /./ coarticulates with neighboring segments. Acoustic and articulatory data were used to investigate this variability for speakers of ‘‘rhotic’’ American English dialects. Three issues were addressed: ~1! the degree to which the F3 trajectory is affected by segmental context and stress, ~...

This article deals with the regional variants of English language and describes in detail currently relevant reasons for appearance dialects their existence modern English. The main theoretical basis this research proves that one person’s individual speech is result mixing varieties features. analyses foreign linguistical discussions about American variant its influence on British wit...

The current study aimed to do a comparative analysis of the cultural elements in two different English coursebooks (Headway and File), which are commonly used for teaching as foreign/second language. With this purpose mind, all activities Headway File were examined find out how contents represented. was designed qualitative research, document method utilized data collection tool. collected eval...