Critical Perspectives on Neoliberalism in Language Education

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Perspectives on Violence, Neoliberalism, and Security in 21st Century Megacities

The two excellent books I discuss in this essay offer an apparent paradox. They present significantly overlapping empirical material, yet provide widely divergent—at times, seemingly contradictory—analyses. Yet, considered together, the two studies help us to think through violence and governance in the urban Global South in new ways. Erika Robb Larkins’s meticulously researched and described e...

Teaching Grammar: Perspectives on Language Learning in Higher Education

Perspectives on Language, Accountability and Critical Accounting: An Interpretative Perspective1

This paper explores the utility of Habermas’s A Theory of Communicative Action (volumes 1 and 2) and his Between Facts and Norms. Habermas’s work has influenced middle-range accounting as advanced by some critical accounting researchers writing about critical and public sector accountability models. This paper considers accounting’s role in the public sphere and examines the Habermasian strain ...

Nursing students’ perspectives on clinical education

Introduction: The importance of optimal clinical nursingeducation in professional skills development is undeniable.In clinical education, nursing students are often faced withproblems. Recognizing nursing students’ perception on clinicaleducation is the first step to remove the barriers of this challenge.Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conductedto determine the nursing stude...