This experimental study considered the effects of learning style variations on EFL learners’ performance in different question types of the reading skill and their strategies to get higher scores. To achieve such goals, ninety learners with different academic backgrounds from IELTS classes of Shukuh English Language Institute in Tehran, participated in this study. The researcher first utilized ...

Abstract This intervention consists in a conversation between an activist-scholar engaging research questioning the conditions facing refugees and asylum seekers Greece activist leading ngo supporting displaced people. We reflect on our own positionality working this area role of academia humanitarian sector more generally. explore different approaches to knowledge production that challenge exp...

This paper exp lores th e bou ndaries of social issues o r ‘activist’ games with a case stud y on a pop ular game released in 2009 which fosters a critical type of play among the audience. We as sess t he game’s public reception to better understand how contradictory play elements led to an anxiety of ambiguity during open play. Borrowing from the “poetics of open work,” we will demonstrate how...

The present article describes participatory theater as a means of empowering audience individuals to lead social change. The focus on participation by oppressed individuals as a means of organizing for social change was recognized as important by scholars and practitioners, especially by the celebrated Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, and the Brazilian theater activist, Augusto Boal. Here we d...