This article offers a transcription and translation, as well commentary, on P. Mich. inv. 5594. The papyrus is believed to date from the fourth century A. D. origin provenance of it are unknown. damaged in some places, so lacunae text or poorly readable places restored accordance with formulas word usage papyri, which always explained commentary. beginning has been lost but at end (Ἀσπάσῃ κατ̣’ ...

Traditionally, literacy, and speech production have been investigated separately. Studies of development demonstrate that children are able to meet the challenge of language learning across modalities, and that adults may experience difficulties in one or both modalities. Yet, it is rare to find a conceptual connection between these two processes. I argue that speaking and reading actually shar...

Computer-mediated communication is driving fundamental changes in the nature of written language. We investigate these changes by statistical analysis of a dataset comprising 107 million Twitter messages (authored by 2.7 million unique user accounts). Using a latent vector autoregressive model to aggregate across thousands of words, we identify high-level patterns in diffusion of linguistic cha...

Some scholars have hypothesized that writing style, the special language of writing, is acquired, or subconsciously absorbed, through reading (Krashen, 1984, 2004; Smith, 1988, 2004). The language of writing, it is argued, is too complex to be consciously learned, and there are compelling case histories of those who developed high levels of competence in the written language through reading alo...

introduction: quantitative and qualitative enhancement of educational activities is an essential issue. learners’ cooperation in the teaching process in order to increase teaching effectiveness and promotion is considered significant. the aim of the present study was to determine the effect of establishment of student working group on the teaching general embryology course to medical students. ...

This article seeks to highlight some important accounts on the intellectual history of Ḥijāz-Jāwī Islamic scholarship by examining syarh (gloss or commentary) literature. The work under investigation is Inārat al-Dujā Syar ḥ Tanwīr al-Ḥijā Naẓm Safīnat al-Najā written Muhammad ‘Ali al-Mālikī al-Makkī (1870-1945 AD/1287-1364 AH). book a commentary ( syar ) al- Ḥijā , notable Ahmad Qusyairi bin a...

Wikis are considered to be part of Web 2.0 technologies that potentially support collaborative learning and writing. Wikis provide opportunities for multiple users to work on the same document simultaneously. Most wikis have also a page for written group discussion. Nevertheless, wikis may be used in different ways depending on the pedagogy being used, and the constraints imposed by the course ...

At its June,1996 meeting, Senate approved a new Instructor and Course Evaluation form (see Exhibit 1) for university-wide use beginning in the 1996-97 academic year. The distinctive features of the new teaching evaluation form include numerical ratings of a broad range of teacher and course characteristics, written comments from students on instructor and course, assessment of student character...

This study explored the EFL teachers’ written corrective feedback (CF) techniques and their EFL students’ ability to integrate the CF while revising their texts. A total of 72 EFL students and 4 EFL teachers participated in this study. The data were collected through explicitation interviews administered to teachers and students, as well as through students’ written productions. A content analy...