abstract the purpose of this cultural study was the analysis of political identities construction in an efl context. our site of struggle for the analysis was a private institution and the related variables were english textbooks, six teachers and six learners as our cases. our whole data collection took from 23 september 2010 to 30 september 2011. our theoretical framework was inspired by cons...

This paper sets out to explore fiction, literary multimodality and dialogism using the example of Wikipedia as an enabling hypertext technology. It will be proposed that the digital architecture and the user conventions of the genre offer a strikingly adaptive framework for the writing of fiction. The notion of the wiki as a collaborative creative site will be examined as a (virtual) spatial an...

10 Abstract Critical reasoning has been recognized as a valuable educational goal since the 11 end of the nineteenth century. However, the educational programs to reach this goal have 12 changed dramatically during the twentieth century and moved to a dialogic approach. The 13 shift to dialogism in programs to promote critical reasoning brings challenges concerning 14 evaluation. We depict such...

Even though integrating technological tools into teaching and learning scenarios is an agreed upon goal it is still far from being fully implemented. This study examines a process of integration of a technological tool, to which a group of teachers participated. The technological tool was developed to enhance dialogism and argumentation, in one Grade 9 class. The question we focused on concerns...

Dutta Ritam, “Let’s Talk”: Promoting Dialogue and Answerability in Critical Humanities Education with Permeable Curriculum and an Adda-Based Pedagogy [“Porozmawiajmy”: zalety dialogu i odpowiedzi w programach edukacji humanistycznej opartej na zasadach pedagogiki adda]. Kultura – Społeczeństwo – Edukacja nr 1(7), 2015, Poznań 2015, pp. 35–59, Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISBN 978-83-232-29...

This paper explores the depiction of female characters as New Women in a comparative analysis two selected short stories by seemingly anti-feminist authors; D. H. Lawrence England and Hanna Mina Syria. I argue that these signal need for new perspective, analyzing how authors challenged conventional fictional treatment womanhood created complex heroines struggling against restrictive social role...

The article analyzes a fragment of the metaphorical system in language Russian poetry from 19th to 21st centuries. Specifically, analysis focuses on personifying metaphors related semantic class ‘Language and speech’ lexical-semantic group Information search receipt’. study aims determine functioning these lexical units poetry, identify classes objects personification they are combined with, es...

The present study attempted to investigate how language teacher educators evaluated two current approaches: monologic or prevalent pedagogy which is widely practiced all across the world including Iran, and dialogic pedagogy which is theoretically established by Yakubinsky, Bakhtin, and Vygotsky. The study tried to understand, whether Iranian EFL teachers and teacher educators preferred to adop...