Extracting incompatible values in the best-sellers current in ELT markets is a real concern. In this study, the researchers tried to bring some claims/counterclaims for hidden ideologies regarding two imported English language teaching coursebooks-Four Corners and Impact Values Series, which are commonly taught within Iranian English language institutes. The main intention was that they might t...

JUAN A. BONACHELA1*, CHRISTOPHER A. KLAUSMEIER2, KYLE F. EDWARDS3, ELENA LITCHMAN4 AND SIMON A. LEVIN5 1 MASTS MARINE POPULATION MODELLING GROUP, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, LIVINGSTONE TOWER, 26 RICHMOND STREET, GLASGOW G1 1XH, UK, KELLOGG BIOLOGICAL STATION AND DEPARTMENT OF PLANT BIOLOGY, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, HICKORY CORNERS, MI 49060, USA, DEPA...

This study aimed to investigate whether there is any significant relationship between the readability and vocabulary profile including the most frequent words (K1 words) and academic word list (AWL) of reading passages of Four Corners series which were EFL textbooks. To determine the readability of the texts, the Flesch–Kincaid (1975) readability test was used, while the texts' academic word li...

this study evaluated 2 elt textbooks (four corners, book 2 and four cornersbook 3) drawing on bloom’s revised taxonomy (brt); it examined the extent towhich these elt textbooks could demonstrate the 6 cognitive categories of the brt(i.e., remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating) intheir activities. to this end, content analysis was done to obtain the frequency ...

This paper presents the results of a study on the axial compressive strength of columnsstrengthened with FRP wrap. The experimental part of the study included testing 6 reinforcedconcrete columns in two series. The first series comprised three similar circular reinforced concretecolumns strengthened with FRP wrap. The second series consisted of three similar square columns,two with sharp corner...

this study aims at investigating the linguistic representation of male and female social actors in the four corners 4 textbook, drawing on cda. more specifically, van leeuwen’s (1996) framework, which highlights the connection of linguistic and social practices, is used as the analytical framework to examine gendered social actors in this english language teaching (elt) textbook. to this end, c...

Elsa E. Cleland*, Chris M. Clark, Scott L. Collins, Joseph E. Fargione, Laura Gough, Katherine L. Gross, Steven C. Pennings and Katharine N. Suding Ecology, Behavior & Evolution Section, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA; School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA; Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA; The Natu...