In the area of language teaching both language skills and textual genres can be worked with simultaneously (thus responding to the Brazilian Curricular Parameters and to the trends in contemporary education, which emphasize contextualized teaching) by means of computers. Computers can make the teaching process dynamic and rich, since they enable the access to the foreign language through virtua...

Agriculture has been the engine of economic growth in developing countries, and will continue to be so in Africa and South Asia in the next decades. More than two thirds of the population live in rural areas and derive their livelihoods from agriculture. To meet the increasing food demands with declining per-capita arable land, increased agricultural productivity and product diversifications ar...

abstract the present study aims to evaluate efl course contents used in language schools and institutes in teh-ran. to that end, 230 participants in tehran were conveniently sampled. at the outset of the study, two questionnaires were given to all groups, and according to their responses, the data were analyzed. each of the questionnaires was given to participants individually. each group had...

Education is one of the most important infrastructure investments any nation can make. And, on this count, Cuba has always been among the leaders in Latin America. For example, in the half century elapsed between 1899 and 1953, adult literacy rate went up from 10 to 73 percent—one of the highest in Latin America, at its time—public secondary schools (institutes) increased from 6 to 21, and scor...

English is taught all over the world either as a foreign or second language. It is taught as a foreign language in the Iranian educational system as well. However, it has always been the issue that EFL programs have been developed without conducting a systematic needs analysis from the learners’ perspective. The present study examined the effect of employing critical needs analysis on the learn...

The following is a summary of a recent research publication entitled Neurologic Symptoms in Licensed Private Pesticide Applicators in the Agricultural Health Study by Freya Kamel, Lawrence S. Engel, Beth C. Gladen, Jane A. Hoppin, Michael C.R. Alavanja, and Dale P. Sandler. The authors are scientists with the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Scien...