this study examines the ideological content of six internationally-used elt textbooks, three british and three american. applying the theory and procedures of critical discourse analysis (cda), three aspects of the conversations in the textbooks, i.e. content, relations, and positions were examined. results suggest that in terms of content, british textbooks tend to entertain the students while...

the present study is an attempt to explore the effect of one of the pragmatic elements of discourse (namely the conceptualizable agent) on overpassivization of english unaccusative verbs. through employing the questionnaire originally used by ju, (2000), 206 iranian intermediate and advanced english majors were asked to choose the more grammatical form (active or passive) in target sentences wi...

Few studies investigate how teacher discourse moves relate to subsequent student in real-time small-group reading instruction with multilingual learners (MLLs). Grounded sociocultural theory and classroom research, this study examines fourth-grade MLLs engage reasoning during text-based discussions. We argue that by examining holistically - beyond speaker turns we can capture teacher-talk facil...

The paper presents a computational theory for resolving Japanese zero anaphora, based on the notion of discourse segment. We see that the discourse segment reduces the domain of antecedents for zero anaphora and thus leads to their efficient resolution. Also we make crucial use of functional notions such as empathy hierarchy and minimal semantics thesis to resolve reference for zero anaphora [K...

Five new spiro[indoline-3,3′-indolizine]s have been synthesized with high regio- and stereospecificity in one-pot three-component reactions between a substituted indole-2,3-dione, ( S )-pipecolic acid trans -3-benzoylacrylic acid, subsequently characterized using combination of elemental analysis, IR 1 H 13 C NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry crystal structure analysis. (1′ SR ,2′ ,3 RS ,8a′ ...

We review the Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization procedure for Yang–Mills theory on a 2-point space. 1) Talk given at the 5-th International Conference ”Renormalization Group 2002”, Tatranska Strba, Slovakia, March 10-16, 2002 2) Email: [email protected] 1 In this talk we give a short summary of [1], where we proposed the quantization of one of the simplest toy models for noncommutative...

E-learning was easily found through browsing internet, which was mostly free of charge and provided various learning materials. Spellingcity.com was one of e-learning websites for teaching and learning English to learn spelling, vocabulary and writing, which offered various games and activities for young learners, 6 until 8 year old learners in particular. The content of the websites was suffic...

The central argument of the identity approach to second language acquisition (SLA) is twofold: First, SLA theorists need a comprehensive theory of identity that integrates the individual language learner and the larger social world; second, SLA theorists need to address how relations of power in the social world affect learners’ access to the target language community. In relation to the former...

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