language must be studied as a social behavior and the aim of language instruction must be to facilitate learners’ acquisition of communicative competence; the ability to speak both accurately and appropriately. rules of speaking must be included into second language classroom teaching. we should teach linguistic rules along with social rules. in this study a number of social functions in persia...

I wish to bring a few issues to the attention of our fellow professionals for their consideration and further action through our professional body (of IPS) as may be deemed fit. The first three issues are about functional aspects of our Indian Psychiatric Society , which I consider have acquired unhealthy flavour; and, the fourth issue is about a policy that should actively and urgently be purs...