Neoliberals advocate for “marketization,” but the transition to markets in pervasively regulated fields like health, defense, and education is complex. There is no way out but through. The state itself must capitulate to (and coordinate) its subjects’ purported emancipation from it. Thus a paradox threatens the coherence of the thought of neoliberals. Wealth accumulation up to now, they assert,...

Analyses of data and hidden agenda behind repeated failed outcomes of cancer research and therapy, status of American health, safety concerns for HPV vaccines and future research considerations are summarized in this commentary. A closer look at cancer science reveals that highly power structure (system) in medical establishment vs. anti-system and chaos in cancer research ('medical/scientific ...

Investigating the “knowing”, a module of the KARDS model proposed by Kumaravadivelu (2012) for teacher education, of Iranian teachers of learner autonomy, this study is an attempt to illuminate some of the yet unexplored areas of teachers’ various types of knowledge of learner autonomy. Furthermore, it attempts to illustrate how Iranian Non-EFL teachers’ knowing affects their practices with reg...

this paper examines the theoretical rationales and practical aspects of task-based language teaching (tblt) with particular reference to research findings in efl/esl contexts. the definitional scope of the term ‘task’, polarizations in terms of task vs. non-task, and its relation to different language teaching approaches have engendered conceptual and methodological ambiguities.  moreover, fact...

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the state of research and theory in the area of user design in instructional and informational sciences. In recent decades the importance of the learner and user has increased considerably. However, a comprehensive consideration of the underlying theories that contribute to user design as a construct, as well as a careful explication of the research th...

this study investigated the effect of applying the dynamic system theory (dst) and cognitive linguistics (cl) insights into grammar instruction on efl learners’ learning of english prepositions and learner autonomy. sixty iranian efl learners at the lower-intermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 1 experimental and 1 control group. the 2 groups filled out an autonomy ...

This study attempted to investigate the relationship among learning strategy, autonomy and language proficiency of Chinese university EFL students. To achieve this objective, purposive sampling and cluster sampling methods were used to select 422 non-English major students as participants in three universities, Henan province, China. Oxford’s (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SIL...

Feedforward neural networks with random weights (FNNRWs), as random basis function approximators, have received considerable attention due to their potential applications in dealing with large scale datasets. Special characteristics of such a learner model come from weights specification, that is, the input weights and biases are randomly assigned and the output weights can be analytically eval...