The Internet has brought into our life previously non-existent ways of communication and new forms language existence. With the growing popularity social networks, functioning English attracted interest many linguists. Modernization linguistic personality takes place in conjunction with development a virtual picture world, which reproduces vastness Internet. Values replace each other. If earlie...

This study compared the effects of computer-mediated (CM) versus pen-and-paper (P&P) writing on written accuracy and feedback processing in tasks rewritten collaboratively following a pedagogical treatment two intact authentic classrooms. The involved 32 secondary education low-proficiency English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners descriptive texts receiving in-class training identificat...

This article describes the evolution of communication technologies, accompanying transformations in everyday communicative activity, and pedagogical possibilities these tools support in second and foreign language (L2) settings. We begin with an overview of synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) and uses of the Internet to mediate intercultural communication for purposes of L2 learn...

one of the unique characteristics of medicaluniversities compared to other higher education centers in iran is existence ofmedical education development centers. these centers have made an attempt toenhance the quality of medical education by regular and constant activity invarious domains of educational planning and policymaking, and empowerment ofthe faculty members, students and personnel. n...

background and purpose: the internet offers a wide range of online digital resources for the field of toxicology. methods: the history of toxicology and electronic data collections are reviewed. this review presents a brief and non-comprehensive overview of a representative sampling of some of the broad array of toxicology-related learning, tutorial and information resources now becoming widely...

The paper argues that everyday exchange of business emails produces a development in the work-group relationship, which, in turn, makes new communication styles possible and acceptable by the users' habit to computer-mediated forms, even in unbalanced professional exchanges. The focus is on the (spoken) discourse features of email messages in a self-compiled corpus of selected computer-mediated...

We evaluated the readability of Internet-sourced patient education materials (PEMs) related to "labour analgesia." In addition to assessing the readability of websites, we aimed to compare commercial, personal, and academic websites.We used the most popular search engine (http://www.google.com) in our study. The first 100 websites in English that resulted from a search for the key words "labour...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: use of the internet to retrieve health information is increasingly common . the present study aimed to determine the ratio of attitude, skill and performance of faculty members in using computer and internet in research and educational affairs at mazandaran university of medical sciences . methods: in this cr...