Carried on in non-English major freshman students setting, this study aims to examine how critical thinking skills can be developed through cooperative learning their argumentative essay writing. An experimental group (n=20) and a control were randomly set up, the pre-tested post-tested see if there is significant difference assigned Illinois Critical Thinking Essay Scoring Rubric. The implemen...

Abstract Towards the end of Cold War, vocabulary global power, space and economy received a qualitative update. Amongst terms rapidly gaining prominence since early 1990s has been notion geoeconomics, coining which frequently attributed to strategist Edward N. Luttwak. In his interpretation, it signified transition away from War ideological military geopolitical competition towards commerce mar...

One of the Prose styles of the contemporary world is focused on the reflection of the outer world on the world of the story. This is widely used in the works of realist and naturalist Iranian writers. Sadegh Chubak, one of the prominent contemporary writers, has achieved a unique language by presenting the reality in his artistic prose. The aim of this research is to analyze the process of crea...

In the international context of concerns about standards in writing, this article addresses the role of grammar in the teaching of writing. It considers both current and historical perspectives on the teaching of grammar and offers a critique of research which attempts to determine the impact of grammar teaching on writing, but which does not investigate how the grammar teaching was pedagogical...