Many corpus linguistic studies have investigated classification of texts into genres and registers, but relatively few of these studies have looked at linguistic features in educational registers. From a pedagogical perspective it is important to determine whether certain linguistic features behave differently across registers within particular disciplines. The current study investigates condit...

Despite the ubiquity of materials in language classrooms, there remains a deficit research on use and role material mediation foreign teaching learning. This edited volume New Perspectives Material Mediation Language Learner Pedagogy by LaScotte, Mathieu, David is aimed to fill such gap.

This article reviews and discusses four somewhat contentious issues in the application of corpus linguistics to pedagogy, ESP in particular. Corpus linguistic techniques have been criticized on the grounds that they encourage a more bottom-up rather than top-down processing of text in which concordance lines are examined atomistically. One criticism levelled against corpus data is that a corpus...

philosopl:y in its broad sense constitutes the origin and foundation of almost each and every discipline ive observe in today's world. despite the focal influence philosophical unde1pinnings have on an ensemble of ideological and epistemological issues in our life, this branch of human knowledge is not welcomed the 1vqy it deserves f?y the administrators of a number of disciplines. one suc...

To address the challenge of identifying an effective English language teaching pedagogy, this study explored Grade 10 teachers (n=50) and students’ (n=2,221) beliefs methods teachers’ classroom practices. It further investigated convergence divergence practices along with pedagogic parameters practicality particularity. Using descriptive quantitative design, findings revealed responses between ...

Using the setting of a writing workshop to facilitate a deliberate process to learn computer programming, this exploratory study investigates where there is a natural overlap between programming and writing through the storytelling motif, and to what extent existing language arts coursework and pedagogy can be leveraged to introduce this new form of digital composition to middle-school children...

When evaluating Giorgi Tavzishvili's pedagogic merits, we should pay special attention to the merits that he brings formation and development of Georgian pedagogy as a science. From this point view, it has played an extremely important role in creation manual language. In 1930s XX century, there were still no textbooks language on issues methodology. This gap our pedagogical science is somewhat...

‘Integrative CALL’ (Warschauer, 1996) refers to developments in language learning in this phase. The learner is placed in authentic situations where learning simultaneously involves listening, seeing, doing, participating and reflecting. This paper shares some insights into this new paradigm in language learning where the online delivery of a course gives learners more control over their own le...

Against the background of the central dilemma in teacher education of the relationship between theory and practice, this article reports a teacher education approach that strongly emphasizes the use of theory in learning to teach, assuming that teaching is also an intellectual activity. A main starting point is the subject pedagogy, the ‘Fachdidaktik’, in this case of Dutch language and literat...