Abstract This study seeks to understand opportunities for teaching and learning the target culture intercultural awareness. Utilizing Moran’s Knowing Framework (2001) its five cultural dimensions, reviewing curriculum documents English textbook in use Grade Six Kosovo, finds a misalignment among regarding understanding. It is noted that while share goals objectives preparing students become glo...

BACKGROUND This study sought to identify cognitive abilities that might distinguish Hong Kong Chinese kindergarten children at risk for dyslexia through either language delay or familial history of dyslexia from children who were not at risk and to examine how these abilities were associated with Chinese word recognition. The cognitive skills of interest were syllable awareness, tone detection,...

The research presented in this paper is part of a 5-year renewable national research program in Canada, namely the NSERC/iCORE/Xerox/Markin research chair program that aims to explore possibilities of adaptive mobile learning and to provide learners with a learning environment which facilitates personalized learning at any time and any place. One of the sub-projects of this 5-year national rese...

PURPOSE Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use phonological awareness assessments in many ways. This study examines the usefulness of these assessments in kindergarten and 2nd grade. METHOD Measures of phonological awareness and letter identification were administered in kindergarten, and measures of phonological awareness, phonetic decoding (i.e., nonword reading), and word reading were adm...

Emotions, moods, and conscious awareness; comment on johnson-laird and oatley's “the language of emotions: An analysis of a semantic field” Andrew Ortony & Gerald L. Clore To cite this article: Andrew Ortony & Gerald L. Clore (1989) Emotions, moods, and conscious awareness; comment on johnson-laird and oatley's “the language of emotions: An analysis of a semantic field”, Cognition and Emotion, ...

imported instructional english textbooks in iran and the learners’ attitudes towards english. further, the instructors’ awareness of these ideologies was examined through a questionnaire. to find the ideological values, a content analysis of conversations, texts, and  pictorial prompts in spectrum and true to life english textbook series was conducted and the extant ideologies were categorized ...