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English Language Teaching Material Development

The goal of language programs is to utilize language for effective communication. Due to the needs, interests, and motivations of language learners, they may show individual differences in their lan- guage learning. Materials used in language programs can be instructional, experiential, elucidative, or exploratory in that they can inform learners about the language, provide experience of the la...

Postmodernism and English Language Teaching

This paper aims at shedding light on the concept of postmodernism, and its implications in the TESOL. Postmodern philosophy as a prevalent concept and a hot buzzword in philosophy, science, and art is believed to have influenced the TESOL theoretically in some ways. The elements of postmodernism including: constructivism, subjectivism, relativism, localism, and pragmatism are found to have been...

Early lexical development in English- and Korean-speaking children: language-general and language-specific patterns.

The present study examined the composition of the early productive vocabulary of eight Korean- and eight English-learning children and the morpho-syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of their caregivers' input in order to determine parallels between caregiver input and early lexical development. Vocabulary acquisition was followed using maternal diary and checklists for the Korean...

Language of General Fuzzy Recognizer

In this note first by considering the notion of general fuzzy automata (for simplicity GFA), we define the notions of direct product, restricted direct product and join of two GFA. Also, we introduce some operations on (Fuzzy) sets and then prove some related theorems. Finally we construct the general fuzzy recognizers and recognizable sets and give the notion of (trim) reversal of a given GFA....

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