Thomas Keneally has long been a writer who gives expression to nationalist sentiment. In 1978 J.J. Healy commented that writers such as Keneally represented ‘a collective, many-motived consciousness’ whose impulse was ‘political, public’. Indeed, many of Keneally’s earlier novels illustrate what we might call ‘national progenitors’. In From The Ruins of Colonialism Chris Healy describes a uniqu...

In 2 experiments, understanding of historical subject matter was enhanced when students acted as historians and constructed their own models of an historical event. Providing students with information in a web site with multiple sources instead of a textbook chapter, and instructing them to write arguments instead of narratives, summaries, or explanations, produced the most integrated and causa...

Joseph Needham [4] was an embryologist and biochemist who is most noted in science for his studies on induction [5] in developing embryos. Needham worked with Conrad Hal Waddington [6] to attempt to identify the compound responsible for the organizer?s activity. Although he was not successful in discovering the chemical, he and Waddington learned much about the organizer [7]. Needham was a meti...

verbosity is one of the techniques of decorated and artificial prose texts that plays major role in the book called dorraye nadireh. mirza mahdi khan astarabadi (1175 h.g) tried in this eminent book to use the various kinds of fine writing like verbosity till the ending events of nadir period (1160); he likes to show off his masterly in writing technique by using  arabic words and various synon...

Most popular models of narratives and narrative analyses have been drawn on native stories, yet EFL learners’ narratives have not received due narrative analysis. The present study then aims at scrutinizing the structure of personal English stories as told by EFL learners. To this aim, three hundred narratives were collected through classroom discussions and interviews. Qualitative analysis met...

There is little research on the task-based teaching approach in senior secondary L2 English writing classrooms. This study carried out an exploratory sequential mixed methods study to explore the suitability and adaptations of task-based language teaching in the domain of secondary schools in small cities. First, the researcher surveyed six EFL senior secondary teachers of different teaching ex...