the main goal of this research is examining the foundations of habermas’ communicative action and postulating principles and methods of social education based on it. to achievement this goal, method of prospective analysis has been used. carrying out content analysis on habermas’ communicative action theory we have come across eleven educational principles and thirteen educational methods which...

An important part of human intelligence, both historically and operationally, is our ability to communicate. We learn how to communicate, and maintain our communicative skills, in a society of communicators – a highly effective way to reach and maintain proficiency in this complex skill. Principles that might allow artificial agents to learn language this way are incompletely known at present I...

In traditional English learning as a second language, learners rarely have the opportunity to practice oral communication, so the acquisition of oral proficiency is a slow process. In this paper, we propose a task-based second language learning game system. The task-based learning method enables learners to obtain communicative skills through the practice of particular “missions” using voice an...

The language teaching-learning process is an entirely interactive communicative process. The integration of adequate information and communication technology (ICT) in the right place and at the right time plays a determining role regarding language learning efficiency. The 21 century, also referred to as a learning society, will focus more and more on adult education, training and postgraduate ...

The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of clickers, the communicative approach and the lecture method on the communicative competence development of learners who were taught English a second language (ESL). Ninety nine pupils from three primary schools participated in the study. Quasi-experimental nonrandomised pre-test posttest control group design was adopted for the study. A bat...

Michael Tomasello’s influential model of language development (Tomasello, 2000; Tomasello, 2003) emphasises the role of infants’ pragmatic understanding of the world in supporting their learning of language. For all humans, whether adult or child, language has a pragmatic function: we communicate linguistically in order to further social goals (for instance to share our beliefs and desires with...

Young people’s interaction online is rapidly increasing, which enables new spaces for communication; the impact on learning, however, is not yet acknowledged in education. The aim of this exploratory case study is to scrutinize how students frame their interaction in social networking sites (SNS) in school practices and what that implies for educational language teaching and learning practices....