the potential of computers to support learning and teaching m almost all subject areas is now widely accepted. at ail levels of education computers aid teachers to enrich their learning/teaching environment. in the field of language education, especially english as a second/foreign language (esl/efl) computer-assisted learning has acted as an indirect boost to enhance language proficiency. whil...

this paper summarizes the educational implications of current research on cognitive neuroscience for foreign-language learning to provide an overview of myths and realities in this appealing area of research. although the potential benefits of neuroscientific research into language acquisition are great, there are a number of popular myths that none of which are supported by scientific evidence...

in this article, on the basis of habermas’ universal pragmatics, we have tried to indicate that empirical pragmatics in linguistics, suffers from ‘normativity deficit’ in the field of foreign language education. what we mean by ‘normativity deficit’, is the lack of normative resources required for judging the validity claims inherent in social interactions. since agreement on the validity claim...

On-going design of Mathematics Education Markup Language (MeML) is presented. MeML is an XML-based language and the key component of Web-based Mathematics Education framework (WME) under investigation. MeML enables authoring of systematic and interoperable mathematics education pages that may contain active parts for various mathematics and educational purposes such as example generation, answe...

Interdisciplinary pedagogical interventions in second language education take time to be produced. Reading Mignolo’s Local Histories/Global Designs and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La frontera more than ten years ago my doctoral studies, I would start envisioning curricular among future generalist bilingual teachers Texas. There is no doubt that the critical scholarship published English on te...

Titles, we assume, are significant, and while Jon Roberts's Language Teacher Education promises a broad sweep, Michael Wallace's Action Research for Language Teachers indicates a much narrower focus. We might nevertheless expect the two to offer complementary routes (formal provision vs self-directed classroom-based enquiry) to the same end (professional development), that there would be recogn...

One of the simple facts of life in the present time is that the English language skills of a good proportion of its citizenry are seen as vital if a country is to participate actively in the global economy and to have access to the information and knowledge that provide the basis for both social and economic development. Central to this enterprise are English teaching and English language teach...