My project (Horizon 2020, 2018–20) traces Black female moviegoing in Harlem during the silent film era. The main challenge uncovering women’s stories is that historical paradigm has always prioritised voices of white, middle-class elite. In field history, criticism expressed by male journalists—such as Lester A. Walton New York Age—has understandably received most attention (Everett; Field, Upl...

The aim of this article is to re-inspect the possibility or repudiation of Sociology of Religion. This idea is done by researching the previous critiques of this branch of sociology and the criticism of these challenges. In the following discussion about each of aspects, it is tried to answer the extant uncertainties according to one of the most important expositors (H. A. Tanhaee).

Over a number of years, action research projects have contributed to practitionerbased research and professional development in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP). In this article, we describe a recent national project focusing on the teaching of vocabulary. We worked, as a researcher from the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (NCELTR) and a researcher from the NS...

Although the formidable growth of urban tourism around the world is well documented, it is widely acknowledged (see Page, 1995; Ashworth, 1989) that research focusing on the culture and experience of urban tourism is rare. Indeed, there is a degree of consensus that quantitative visitor surveys tend to dominate urban tourism research. Whilst recent cultural research focusing on the embodiment a...

Pronunciation, long on the periphery of applied linguistics research and pedagogy, continues to grow in importance because of its central roles in speech recognition, speech perception, and speaker identity. Pronunciation-related issues such as comprehensibility, accent, and the mutual intelligibility of varieties of world Englishes are central to many questions in applied linguistics. This cal...

Can the use of visualization promote links between learners, teachers, and researchers? Could such links improve learning, the quality of teaching , or stimulate new research? We report on our tentative experiment in this direction using animation software and conclude that it does indeed promote links and stimulate research. We present our plans for the future.