the invisible hands of peer reviewers play a determining role in the eventual fate of submissions to international english-medium journals. this study builds on the assumption that non-native researchers and prospective academic authors may find the whole strive for publication, and more specifically, the tough review process, less threatening if they are aware of journal reviewers’ expectation...

the idea that teaching a foreign language has a cultural dimension isn't new.this study is a review of literature on the importance of the synchronized teaching ofculture and language and the exising challenges in this area.thispaper deals with questions like:what is the aim of teaching culture?what are the constituent components of culture?what aspects of culture should be taught and what...

The present study investigated the effect of single and multiple genre movies on listening comprehension of upper intermediate language learners. To this end, a language proficiency test was administered to 40 male and female postgraduates of different majors attending International English Language Testing System (IELTS) classes and ultimately 25 upper intermediate language learners were selec...

in this paper we formulate and prove some xed and common xed pointtheorems for self-mappings dened on complete lower transversal functionalprobabilistic spaces.

Task-Based Language Teaching has been developed in response to the teacher-dominated, focus-on-forms methods such as Present, Practice, Produce (PPP). The body of literature is replete with studies examining learning efficacy PPP approach versus TBLT; however, these did not use assessment tasks comparing two methods. To this end, present study used an Assessment Task, a Grammaticality Judgment ...

The paper considers studying the perception and assessment of media content in the Russian-language social networks, analyzing the causes that affect the perception and distribution of network content. The importance of language learning and communication in Russian-language social networks, and problems of content effectiveness is determined by the growth in the number and activity of Runet us...