Textbooks play a crucial role in English language teaching and learning. One of the methods for selecting the most appropriate textbook for a particular educational purpose is comparing two or several similar textbooks with each other. Textbook evaluation can provide useful information about the strengths and weaknesses of textbooks and can lead to the selection of the most suitable materials f...

This study investigated the utilization of intertextuality in the fourth edition of the Interchange book series for English as Foreign Language (EFL) Learners using Fairclough’s (1992) framework. Ten texts were randomly chosen among the reading passages of the Interchange book series and later analyzed regarding intertextuality kinds and methods of reporting. Findings indicated that two types o...

This study was an attempt to evaluate English Pre-University text book of Karnataka state in India with respect to general criterion as well as vocabulary teaching. To this end two types of evaluation were performed. First a questionnaire was made with reference to some critical features extracted from different material evaluation checklists in addition to, a part related to different strategi...

about 11 centuries after its emergence, aristotle's organon was translated into arabic; and, based on such translations, scholars such as farabi and ibn sina created logical works in the islamic world. because of these works, logic emerged and flourished among muslims. through analysis and evaluation of the first translations of organon, we may get familiar with, on the one hand, attention...

In general, people read texts and decide by themselves to measure levels of understandability and readability, which takes a lot of time and efforts. We believe visualizing readability gives intuitive impact on how difficult the texts will be before examining the texts further. Text visualization aims to provide structural characteristics of text contents in an efficient way. By using massive t...

This paper describes a co-creative text generation system applied within a science fiction setting to be used by an established novelist. The project was initiated as part of The Dutch Book Week, and the generated text will be published within a volume of science fiction stories. We explore the ramifications of applying Natural Language Generation within a cocreative process, and examine where ...

Text is ubiquitous in the artificial world and easily attainable when it comes to book title and author names. Using the images from the book cover set from the Stanford Mobile Visual Search dataset and additional book covers and metadata from openlibrary.org, we construct a large scale book cover retrieval dataset, complete with 100K distractor covers and title and author strings for each. Bec...

Al-Btriuni's book on pharmacy and materia medica, ed. with English translation by H. M. Said and R. E. Elahie, Karachi, Hamdard National Foundation, 1973, volume 1, pp. viii, 376+430 pp. (Arabic text), $30.00; Introduction, commentary and evaluation, by S. K. Hamarneh, volume 2, pp. 152, illus., $6.00. SAMI K. HAMARNEH, The physician, therapist and surgeon Ibn al-Quff (12331286), an introductor...

Textbooks play a crucial role in English language teaching and learning. One of the methods for selecting the most appropriate textbook for a particular educational purpose is comparing two or several similar textbooks with each other. Textbook evaluation can provide useful information about the strengths and weaknesses of textbooks and can lead to the selection of the most suitable materials f...