With the latest paradigm shift in SLA from Cognitivism to Sociocultural Theory (SCT), more studies are carried out to investigate the efficacy of Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) through a social and cultural lens. A more recent offspring of SCT is Activity Theory which provides an explanatory framework for scrutinizing an activity in a social setting. The present study aimed at investigating ...

The present paper aims for the most part to prove the fact that religious and spiritual places and above all, mosques play major roles within Islamic urban areas. They are in fact the basis of civil infrastructures. A historical analysis focusing on where mosques stand in Islamic urban areas reveals that mosques have always been the center of development and growth and that they must be studied...

Wide access to large information collections is of great potential importance in many aspects economic, environmental, health, cultural, social, etc. of everyday life. Historical video documentaries hold by national audiovisual archives, constitute one of the most precious from a historical and cultural viewpoint and less accessible cultural information. This paper presents the ECHO (European C...

Background. In the year of Leontiev’s 120th anniversary it is important to look again at his scientific heritage. Objective. The article aims define place psychological theory activity in Soviet and Russian psychology philosophy second half 20th century. Results. It shown that predetermined a number ideas intellectual movement 4E Cognition popular now cognitive science. However, some Leontiev a...

Wide access to large information collections is of great potential importance in many aspects economic, environmental, health, cultural, social, etc. of everyday life. Historical video documentaries hold by national audiovisual archives, constitute one of the most precious from a historical and cultural viewpoint and less accessible cultural information. This paper presents the ECHO (European C...

In the 1980s, I published the first global maps of human behavior, constructed from variables taken from the Ethnographic Atlas data base of G.P. Murdock (1967) the Cross-Cultural Summary of R. Textor (1967), and other historical and anthropological sources.(DeMeo 1986, 1991, 1998). As will be summarized here, when the global cross-cultural data on human behavior are mapped, a previously-hidden...

The importance of developing students’ conceptual understanding biological science in school is well established as a precursor to future development (Cachapuz et al. 2005). However, students continue underperform this important scholastic area due large part not engaging the deeper concepts taught. In article we investigate an interdisciplinary approach teaching biology Brazil. We draw on theo...