Purpose – With the significant growth in electronic education materials such as syllabus documents and lecture notes, available on the internet and intranets, there is a need for robust central repositories of such materials to allow both educators and learners to conveniently share, search and access them. The purpose of this paper is to report on the work to develop a national repository for ...

Syllabuses are used to ensure consistency between educational institutions. A modularized syllabus contains weightages assigned to different units of a subject. Different criteria like Bloom’s taxonomy, learning outcomes etc., have been used for evaluating the syllabus coverage of a question paper. But we have not come across any work that focuses on syntactic text similarity evaluation of unit...

This quasi-experimental study investigated the instructional efficacy of genre-based approach on Iranian EFL learners’motivation for writing. Out of 180 participants, 60 EFL male and female students at university level, with the age range of 19-28, based on a standard profeciency test, Preliminary English Test (PET), were selected and randomly assigned into control and experimental groups. Each...

Abstract This study tried to examine the relationship between language strategies/sources and ideologies, and how ideologies are constructed and expressed through language strategies in different English newspapers with different political contexts. The focus of the study was on the style of representation of Syrian civil war in Tehran-Times and Asharq Al-Awsat newspapers. The data from these n...

Although 'attitude change' is included as one of the aims of the 1982 training syllabus for psychiatric nurses, curriculum designers are given little guidance as to what constitute desirable attitudes in the psychiatric nurse, and how those attitudes are to be assessed and evaluated. This study has three aims: to attempt to outline what might count as desirable attitudes; to propose a theoretic...

Underlying the recently developed notions of applied ELT and life syllabus is the idea that language classes should give precedence to learners’ life qualities, for instance emotional intelligence (EI), over and above their language skills. By so doing, ELT is ascribed an autonomous status and ELT classes can lavish their full potentials to the learners. With that in mind, this study aimed to d...

Recently, scientific knowledge has grown explosively because of rapid advancements that have occurred in academia and society. Because of this dramatic expansion of knowledge, learners and educators sometimes struggle to comprehend the overall aspects of syllabi. In addition, learners may find it difficult to discover appropriate courses of study from syllabi because of the increasing growth of...

In the realm of second language acquisition (SLA), task-based language teaching (TBLT) and input enhancement (IE) have been the focus of a great number of studies. However, the idea of investigating the effects of focus on form instruction through input-enhanced tasks along with pre-task planning time as one of the features of task-based language teaching has been rarely explored in the field o...

1 Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, 33-207, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 Abstract  This paper details how a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology identified and codified a set of goals for engineering education, which can serve as the basis for curricular improvement and outcome based assessment. The res...

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