Handling heterogeneity in English geography textbooks 1850–2000

Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks

Handling Heterogeneity in Connector Generation

A software connector is an abstraction capturing interactions among components. Apart from middleware independence, connectors provide additional services (e.g. adaptation, synchronization, etc.). They play a major role in heterogeneous deployment (i.e. building applications from components implemented in different component models) where they are invaluable for solving distribution and overcom...

Handling Scope Ambiguities In English

This paper describes a program for handling "scope ambiguities" in individual English sentences. The program operates on initial logical translations, generated by a parser/translator, in which "unscoped elements" such as quantifiers, coordinators and negation are left in place to be extracted and positioned by the scoping program. The program produces the set of valid scoped readings, omitting...

Pragmatic Representations in Iranian High School English Textbooks

Owing to the growing interest in communicative, cultural and pragmatic aspects of second language learning in recent years, the present study tried to investigate representations of pragmatic aspects of English as a foreign language in Iranian high school textbooks. Using Halliday’s (1978), and Searle’s (1976) models, different language functions and speech acts were specifically determined and...

Modal Auxiliary Verbs in Prescribed Malaysian English Textbooks

The use of corpus-based findings in order to inform L2 teaching materials have been emphasized by many researchers owing to the fact that the studies of authentic texts have revealed some inconsistencies between the use of grammatical structures in corpora, and those found in language textbooks that are based purely on hunch. Therefore, by comparing a textbook corpus with the British National C...