ABSTRACT: Since the 1990s Ryuko Kubota has extensively researched race, identity, and critical approaches to teacher development in area of Applied Linguistics (AL). More recently, her last publications include relevance translanguaging ongoing work with Sister Scholars. As result our interest Kubota’s extremely significant discussions, this interview, points out challenges AL faced years, as w...

in this paper, i attempt to bring together approaches to literacy in theory and in practice, drawing upon various activities i have been involved in over the years–research in iranian villages during the 1970s; linking research and theory to literacy policy, with particular reference to a contribution to the unesco global monitoring report in 2004 and involvement in an ongoing adult literacy tr...

the most important goal of each society, is to reach economic development. as the goal and agent of development, man has got an important responsibility, which responsibility is realized by way of education, specially higher education, because the universities are the main factors for progress, production of knowledge and education of specialized human forces and they play a significant role in...

This corpus-based study aimed at exploring the most frequently-used academic words in linguistics and compare the wordlist with the distribution of high frequency words in Coxhead’s Academic Word List (AWL) and West’s General Service List (GSL) to examine their coverage within the linguistics corpus. To this end, a corpus of 700 linguistics research articles (LRAC), consisting of approximately ...

Language typology studies have shown that reflexive verb structures are widely represented in diverse languages. In this paper reflexive verb constructs in Bulgarian, French and Hungarian are compared and described on a paradigmatic level. A classification is provided where key Bulgarian reflexive verb constructs, distributed in semantic classes, are used as a seed data set for defining corresp...