The research examines the effects of blended learning (BL) on English education in Saudi Arabian higher and its potential future developments context increasing integration information communication technologies (ICTs). study emphasizes importance measuring students' actual outcomes, access to opportunities, views those outcomes when evaluating effectiveness education. authors compare minority ...

OBJECTIVES to examine the association of language (English vs Spanish), and commonly used measures of memory and word fluency among older adults. DESIGN cross-sectional. SETTING community-based settings in New York City, including senior centres and residential complexes. SUBJECTS four hundred and twenty independently living adults aged 60 or older (mean 73.8 years). METHODS participant...

* Adnan Tahir is an Assistant Professor (Humanities) at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah, Pakistan. He has a vast experience of teaching English as a Second Language, Technical & Research Writing and Business Communication at various levels, along with the experience as a teacher trainer. His research interests include teacher socialization and professional development, English ...

Up to now, many studies have been done to show the origin of attitudes and their relationships with behaviors or actions. Some of those works have focused on students' attitudes and some have introduced the various contexts of language teaching and learning. These studies were enough to give a new impetus for conducting the present investigation. This paper investigated the teachers' attitudes ...

As English spreads as the new international language for all domains, be it economics, politics, education, research, and so on, it becomes increasingly important to facilitate English upgrading for people everywhere. In this way, language barriers can be lifted, and international communication enhanced. The recent growth and expansion of the Internet allows us to build distance education syste...

This paper presents a game with speech recognition for children who speak the Mayan language, based on a corpus designed for the English language. The goal of this work is to test whether an English speech corpus can be useful in the development of speech recognition applications for the Mayan language and thus develop teaching resources for the bilingual education.

This article addresses the issue of the English-only movement in the United States public schools, specifically the Structured English Immersion (SEI) methodology. It discusses the controversy surrounding bilingual education by reviewing theoretical and empirical research about the implementation of SEI. The article articulates that SEI is an appropriate alternative to other bilingual instructi...

Epidemiology and public health are usually context-specific. Journals published in different languages and countries play a role both as sources of data and as channels through which evidence is incorporated into local public health practice. Databases in these languages facilitate access to relevant journals, and professional education in these languages facilitates the growth of native expert...