The present study aimed to investigate the generic organization of research article introductions in local Iranian and international journals in English for Specific Purposes, English for General Purposes, and Discourse Analysis. Overall, 120 published articles were selected from the established journals representing the above subdisciplines. Each subdiscipline was represented by 20 local and 2...

From the dawn of civilization, people have used folktales and stories to share information and knowledge. After the invention of printing in the 15th century, technology provided helpful yet complicated utilities to exchange ideas. In the present computerized world, the art of storytelling is becoming more influential through the unprecedented multimedia capabilities of computers. In this artic...

The aim of this article is to establish the relevance of teaching reading and writing skills to students at Madrid Polytechnic University, and to show the relationship and interdependence of these activities in EAP courses. The skills involved in reading and writing processes for academic purposes for L2 students are compared and commented on from a rhetorical point of view. Learning tasks base...

Over the last decades, there has been a plethora of interest in possible challenges encountered by researchers while publishing research articles (RAs) in various disciplines for English for academic purposes (EAP).Given this, this study aimed to examine how a sampled number of EAPIranian researchers perceive the competence of academic RA writing, the major reasons for RA rejection, and difficu...

The present essay aims to reflect on the internationalization of Higher Education which is background articles published in this special issue Academic literacy English: pedagogical practices times internationalization. This discussion will explore linguistic (English) demands imposed by and advocate for institutionalization English/additional languages learning teaching support universities. t...

Labomat 3 is a recon gurable platform for teaching and research purposes developed by our laboratory. The main features of the board are: (1) a microprocessor associated with two mid-range FPGAs, (2) a powerful multitasking real-time operating system including a JavaVM, (3) easy{to{use design tools, and (4) a networking interface. In this paper we describe the hardware and software of the board...