In this paper, we present an analysis method, a set of rules, lexical resources dedicated to discourse relation identification, in particular for explanation analysis. The following relations are described with prototypical rules: instructions, advice, warnings, illustration, restatement, purpose, condition, circumstance, concession, contrast and some forms of causes. Rules are developed for Fr...

The purpose of the study was to activate the passive lexical knowledge through noticing and to investigate the effect of sentence writing as the post task of noticing activity on strengthening the effect of noticing. Forty-two Iranian female adult upper-intermediate English students of a state university in 2 homogenous groups participated in noticing the lexical items whose production were not...

Along with traditional issues, educationalists nowadays raise many new ones, among them is the correlation of universal and national education patterns relating to ratio teaching learning, instruction upbringing. The emphasis on learning more characteristic modern theories English-speaking countries while in Russian speaking they still pay particular attention at educational establishments upbr...

The people of Sunkesula village are not happy. 500 families in the tiny village in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh gave up 860 acres of their land to the Forest Department for the expansion of the Great Indian Bustard Wildlife Sanctuary (famous for the endangered blackbuck). The reservoir that was their source of stored-water now lies within the sanctuary. Access to it is denied. No...

An American Journal of Nursing study reported that nurses experience stress, frustration, loss of concentration, and impaired information exchange when hostile behaviors occur in the workplace. Early in my career, I worked in an intensive care unit, and when something annoyed one of the surgeons, he would pick up a ventilator and throw it. A ventilator! What did the institution do about this su...