F. BIANCHINI and F. CORBETTA, 'The kindly fruits', English adaptation by M. A. Dejey, illustrations by M. Pistoia, London, Cassell, 1977, fo., pp. 241, illus., £12.50. Le piante della salute appeared in 1975 and has now been adapted into English. It deals with eighty-two herbs and plants that have been used for centuries in the kitchen and, or, in medicine. Each is described and its location an...

introduction one very important aspect of any textbook is its content in terms of the motivation it creates in the readers. this is specifically true in efl textbooks where the learners need more than just content since content-wise, such books are not very much different from the learners’ world knowledge level. that is why material developers working in this area are usually consciously choos...

studying translations during the time of conflict has gained currency in the recent decade in translation studies. one of the cases in which conflict manifests itself is in the way different countries choose to name an event or a geographical location, for example. this study set out to understand how translation of rival names and labeling was carried out in iranian state-run news agencies. to...

The aim of this study was to assess the students' performance in the intensive and nonintensive English courses in an EFL university context. More specifically, it aimed at determining whether the students attending the intensive course had a better gain than those in nonintensive one or not. To achieve the goal, 170 freshmen students at the international branch of Shiraz University of Medical ...