Figure 1. Four novel adaptations made possible by LGT. Upper left: a solar saltern in Eliat, Israel. Upper right: Utagawa Hiroshige’s Bowl of Sushi (detail of woodcut). Lower left: pepper plant roots infected by root-knot nematode. Lower right: pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) exhibiting green, red and yellow color polymorphisms. See text for details. Image credits: Upper left, R. Thane Papke; ...

This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...

with the advent of constitutional revolution in iran and the increase in people’s knowledge, women’s status changed and ultimately improved. publishing newspaper was one of the women’s attempts to keep their rights. lady somayyeh kahhal was the first woman in this field, as well as ophthalmology in iran. she published the first specialized newspaper for women in iran under the title of danesh (...

Most online news sources are electronic versions of " ink-on-paper " newspapers. These are versions that have been filtered, from the mass of news produced each day, by an editorial board with a given community profile in mind. As readers, we choose the filter rather than choose the stories. New technology, however, provides the potential for personalized versions to be filtered automatically f...

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...

American mass media’s relation with the US government in foreign policy decision-making has been the subject of numerous studies in the interdisciplinary field of political communication. This paper reexamines the interaction between the media and the government in the US foreign policy decision-making process, analyzing the possible congruity and/or incongruity between The Washington Post...

This paper examines several ways to extract timely economic signals from newspaper text and shows that such information can materially improve forecasts of macroeconomic variables including GDP, inflation unemployment. Our is drawn three popular UK newspapers collectively represent readership in terms political perspective editorial style. Exploiting both unconditionally when conditioning on ot...

A historical cohort study of the printing industry was established after an anecdotal report of a cluster of cases of bladder cancer in a newspaper factory in Manchester. The cohort comprised some 9500 men who were members of one or other of two trade unions (the NGA and NATSOPA) in the Manchester area between 1949 and 1963. During the follow up period (1949-83) 3482 deaths occurred among men b...

Rethinking marginality in new queer television is a self-reflection on how this Special Issue of Queer Studies Media & Popular Culture took form. Throughout editorial, we examine trends current theory and reflect the changes occurring both depictions representations dissemination itself. We conclude by offering survey into variety that covered issue, from Pose Vida to Killing Eve, Hollywood...

abstract genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. the present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on iranian pre-intermediate efl leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their re...